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Despite all the talk about using artificial intelligence and machine learning in future, social media giant Facebook says it will take recourse to snail mail in order to verify that its next lot of election advertisements actually originate in the US.

A judge in a New York district court has ruled that embedding a tweet on a web page could be a violation of copyright, overlooking years of precedent that say otherwise.

Social media company Twitter has reported its first ever quarterly net profit, of US$91.1 million, in the final quarter of 2017, compared to a loss of US$167 million a year prior.

A cloud repository used by Paris-based brand marketing company Octoly has been left exposed with a back-up of its business IT operations and information about its registered online personalities open to the world.

The Twitter account of the editor-in-chief of Germany's Der Spiegel magazine has been hacked and used to apologise for the "bad news" it published about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Less is more was the saying when Twitter's limit was 140 characters, but now this has been doubled, some think it's the end of the world.

If you want to watch the Melbourne Cup, and you're nowhere near a TV or a TAB, then you catch watch from your smartphone or tablet, and at around 3 minutes long, you won't ruin your data limit.

Twitter, Seven Network, and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) have announced a deal to live stream the 2017 Emirates Melbourne Cup to an Australian and global audience, but only at certain times.

With it harder to shorten words in English and express oneself easily in 140 characters compared to Chinese, Korean or Japanese, Twitter is testing the doubling of tweetable English letters.

Russia's communications watchdog has told Facebook that it will have to store the data of Russian users locally or else face closure next year.

Australian data centre operator Megaport has appointed former Twitter global network head Tim Hoffman as chief technology officer.

Twitter is claiming a world-first broadband of an “actual periscope view with a live underwater tour” when you tune in live on one of three Twitter handles tomorrow.

Twitter has launched a new look for its service in what the company says is a complete refresh of its products to give users a better experience.

Underground online marketplaces are selling a range of services designed to help anyone who is looking to distribute fake news and launch a public opinion manipulation campaign, a detailed study by the security firm Trend Micro has found.

Twitter is partnering with video game publisher and e-sports tournament organiser Riot Games Oceania to live stream the inaugural League of Legends: League of Origin tournament globally.

As it did in March, the British government is again trying to lay the blame on encryption in the wake of the terrorist attack in Manchester. This time, social media is also in its sights.

Bloomberg Media and Twitter have announced what they claim to be the first 24/7 breaking news network that will will be global, live, streaming and social.

Apple is scheduled to report its second fiscal quarter earnings overnight and the company will announce that it has more than US$250 billion in cash, most of it stashed outside the US.

Sharing too much information on social media this Easter could lead to trouble from burglars who trawl sites like Facebook and Twitter to find easy targets, like empty houses, to rob, according to the security company ESET.

Twitter has decided not to count usernames towards the 140-character limit for tweets when a reply is sent to a single user or a group.