Elon Musk launched into a blistering Twitter tirade on Sunday against a British explorer who helped spearhead the rescue of a youth soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave — only to delete his posts after coming under withering criticism. The flame war between Tesla's CEO and Vernon Unsworth, a spelunker who helped rescuers find the Thai soccer team, began after Unsworth made an appearance on CNN and criticized Musk's idea to use a miniature submarine.

It's like 2016 all over again.

Apparently sick of being criticized by everyone from US Congress to Seth Rogan for not doing enough to purge its platform of bots, trolls, and malicious foreign actors, Twitter has started liberally dropping the ban hammer on suspicious accounts, suspending more than 70 million users over the course of May and June.

“Local Twitter” is a booming network of basic, young suburbanites across the country.

It seems like every day there is a new story about someone getting into hot water for Twittering. Between the G-20 protesters who were arrested for sending Twitter updates, and the waiter who was fired for complaining about not getting a tip from a star of Hung (only in Hollywood, kids), it’s officially not safe to Tweet. In fact, studies …

A technical glitch in the FBI system created an online firestorm.

Up to 70 million fake accounts are shut as Twitter seeks to limit abuse of its service, according to reports.

8 steps to build your personal brand on Twitter. A great personal brand can be built by finding the perfect balance between professional and personal.

Network pulls Barr’s revived show and calls racist tweets towards ex-Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett ‘abhorrent and repugnant’

According to the company, it can't separate content posted before and after the age of 13.

A bird emerges from the ashes.

Since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of millions of Facebook users, one question has lingered in the minds of the public: What other data did Dr. Aleksandr Kogan gain access to? Twitter confirmed to The Telegraph on Saturday that GSR, Kogan’s ow…

A few years ago, Justine Sacco, then the senior director of corporate communications at the holding company InterActiveCorp, tweeted about the nuisances of air-travel during a long, multi-leg journey from New York to South Africa. She started with sardonic observations—one about a smelly passenger at JFK Airport, another about London’s peculiar food and predictably inclement weather. Then came this one, shortly before her final flight: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

The judge suggested in her 75-page opinion that Trump could have ignored his opponents’ reply tweets.

The hashtag #TwoDictators erupted on Twitter after Fox News host Abby Huntsman on Sunday mistakenly used the term to describe President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The "Fox and Friends" presenter apologized to viewers after referring to the leaders as "two dictators" ahead of their historic meeting in Singapore Tuesday. Speaking on "Fox and Friends Weekend," Huntsman mistakenly suggested to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci that the upcoming summit would be a historic moment for two autocratic powers.

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

More than 3 million people have endorsed the tweet, which quoted Nelson Mandela, after far-right rally in which woman was killed.

The hashtag was born on Twitter 10 years ago today, and it has become one of the most recognizable and widely used symbols of our time. Here’s how.

Now a small group of users can tweet updates up to 280 characters long moving forward — double the previous amount.

Spend any time on Twitter and you'll end up in some very dark places, facing an existential quandary about your place in the universe, asking if life can offer anything but pain. That's so typical by now that it's mentioned in Twitter's user agreement (you should really read those things)... By Michael Walsh.

Last week we noted how Freshman Michigan Representative Michele Hoitenga has been pushing a broadband competition-killing bill she clearly neither wrote nor understands. The industry-backed bill, HB 5009 (pdf), would ban Michigan towns and cities from using taxpayer funds to build or operate community broadband networks, and would hamstring these communities' abilities to strike public/private partnerships. The bill is just the latest example of broadband industry protectionist laws ISPs ghost write, then shovel unobstructed through the corrupt state legislative process.

As political pressure mounts on social media companies to say where ads are coming from, Twitter will reveal more information about political advertising on its platform. Twitter said in a blog post on Tuesday it would clearly label political electioneering ads, which the Federal Election Commission (FEC) defines as an ad used to promote a specific candidate for elected office or affiliated party posted within 30 days of a primary election or 60 days of a general election. Electioneering ads can also include any ad clearly promoting a political candidate at any time.

Twitter said on Thursday that it had overstated its monthly-user figures since 2014 after mistakenly including data from third-party applications in its counting. The revelation came as the company reported that its net loss had narrowed in the third quarter and that its number of daily active users had risen 14 percent.

In early 2015, a Twitter employee discovered a vast amount of Twitter accounts with IP addresses in Russia and Ukraine. The worker, Leslie Miley, said most of them were inactive or fake but were not deleted at the time. Miley, who was the company's engineering manager of product safety and security at the time, said efforts to root out spam and manipulation on the platform were slowed down by the company's growth team, which focused on increasing users and revenue.

Twitter says the employee went rogue on their last day of work. Security experts say that poses a danger.

The alt-right blogger had almost 70,000 followers, was an utter fiction, and wasn’t alone.

Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year’s presidential election while straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of since-deleted accounts.

Researchers discover that accounts run from troll farm in St Petersburg tried to sow discord between Britons

Twitter wants to police its users both on and off the service.

The social media giant is facing serious questions over its efforts to deal with fake propaganda accounts after BuzzFeed News uncovered a network directly connected to the Russia-linked accounts Twitter submitted to Congress.

Exposing decades old bigotry is uncomfortable, mostly because it reminds us of our own complicity.

The handle, @JulianAssange, went down late Sunday evening, before the start of Christmas.

In the wake of Trump’s victory, I built a bot to expose bigots. Then Twitter suspended it — and kept the bigots.

No more safety net for Facebook, Twitter and their peers.