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Twitter is hoping users will begin exploring more on its mobile app. The social network said Thursday it is adding a new “Explore” tab in yet another attempt to make finding tweets and trending topics easier. Explore’s magnifying glass symbol on the app’s navigation bar is replacing Twitter’s much-hyped Moments feature, a lightning bolt tab …

More than 6.8 million people turned to Twitter to watch President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the social network said Tuesday. Twitter said that its six-hour stream of PBS Newshour’s coverage on Friday reached a record 6,824,000 million unique viewers, peaking at 377,000 viewers at 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET. Twitter added that the inauguration was its most-viewed live stream, just surpassing …

Donald Trump may’ve been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, but that doesn’t mean you suddenly have to start paying heed to his tweets. Or does it? More than half a million Twitter users might’ve worried about that, when they noticed that after Trump’s inauguration, they were suddenly following him on the microblogging service, by way …

You think you’ve crafted the perfect Tweet. You hit the big blue button to set it live — only to realise you’ve made an “unpresidented” typo. Editing is something many of us would like to see on microblogging social network Twitter, and as it turns out, CEO Jack Dorsey would too. On Thursday, he asked Twitter users to come at …

The Wikimedia Foundation wants a judge to decide whether a major US surveillance program is constitutional. The US government says the organization has no business bringing the case to court. That was the conflict at the heart of arguments lawyers for both sides gave in a federal appeals court Thursday in Richmond, Virginia. The program, often referred to as “upstream” …

In a flurry of activity, Twitter bought a startup Thursday and immediately appointed its CEO as its new vice president of product. The startup, called Yes Inc., makes apps that let users connect immediately with friends to set plans and share videos. You could think of Yes’ focus on snappy, short-form interactions as a cousin to Twitter’s own 140-character strategy. …

The Twitter account for Jack Dorsey, the social media company’s co-founder and CEO, vanished briefly Tuesday night before reappearing with significantly fewer followers than before. Attempts to visit Dorsey’s account around 6 p.m. PT yielded a standard message indicating his account had been suspended. About 15 minutes later, the account mysteriously reappeared, but instead of the more than 4 million …

Wouldn’t it be nice? Send off a text message with a whoosh, and, presto, you’ve finished voting in the US national election. But here’s some important information: You can’t vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — or for anyone, for that matter — by text message. Electronic voting in the US is very limited, doesn’t involve text messages, and …

Twitter is stuck in a rut. The service, which has amplified the voices of everyone from Katy Perry to Donald Trump, remains a niche player in the social media industry. The company’s user growth has flat-lined, and efforts to transform the service into a live-streaming hub have yielded mixed results. Even Twitter’s allure as a platform for voices is starting …

Twitter is planning to cut hundreds of jobs, with an announcement possibly coming as soon as this week ahead of its third-quarter financial results, Bloomberg reported Monday. The financially troubled company is planning to eliminate about 300 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, unidentified people described as familiar with the matter told the media outlet. It’s roughly the same …