A federal judge will decide if Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill can block people on his personal Twitter account or if doing so violates their free speech rights. Merrill and the plaintiffs in the 2018 lawsuit filed motions last month supporting their respective claims. The lawsuit filed by three blocked Twitter users contends that Merrill is putting a “viewpoint-based…
A lawsuit has been filed against Alabama’s secretary of state for blocking people on Twitter. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by three people who said Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill had blocked them from his Twitter account “because of opinions they expressed or questions they asked.” American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama Director Randall Marshall said Merrill largely…
First Amendment advocates are suing President Donald Trump, saying some of his critics have been unconstitutionally blocked from following him on Twitter. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The lawsuit says Twitter has become an important public forum for the president and he frequently makes public announcements there….
Twitter has unveiled a new look, and much like some previous changes the company has made to its short-messaging service, it’s not going over so well with the Twitterati. The San Francisco company says the new design emphasizes simplicity, making it faster and easier to use, with bolder headlines and more intuitive icons. It also changed users’ profile images from…
A movement to thank President Donald Trump on Twitter for the action he has taken during his first week in the Oval Office hasn’t worked out quite as originally planned. Several Twitter users urged Trump supporters to use #ThankYouTrump in tweets praising the Republican on Tuesday night. The hashtag became a trending topic with tweets thanking Trump for various actions,…
NEW YORK (AP) – The NFL’s first prime-time game broadcast on Twitter reached an audience of 2.1 million on the social media site Thursday night. An average audience of 243,000 watching the Jets beat the Bills on Twitter viewed an average of 22 minutes of game action. Across all digital NFL platforms, there was an average of 314,000 users, with…
Twitter says it has suspended 360,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating its policies banning the promotion of terrorism and violent extremism. The San Francisco-based company says it has also made progress in preventing users who were suspended from immediately returning to the platform using different accounts, which has been a problem in the past. Twitter says its rate of daily…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Twitter will live stream for free one Major League Baseball game and one NHL game per week under a new deal. The agreement announced Monday will allow viewers to watch games nationally that would normally be available only in the two teams’ home markets. Users will not need to be logged into Twitter to see the…
NEW YORK (AP) – The NBA will deliver a free live stream of a weekly pregame show on Twitter next season as part of an expanded content partnership with the social media site. The first of its kind sports programming was announced Tuesday, as well as plans for another show that’s still to be determined for next season. With more…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Twitter set out to build a virtual town square bustling with billions of people. But it’s starting to look more like a novelty stand as social-media users flock to other services that strike a more personal chord. The company’s reported no user growth at all in the fourth quarter, the clearest signal yet that the one-time…
