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Twitter says Olympics, IOC accounts hacked

Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 07:34 AM

The accounts were hacked through a third-party platform, a spokesperson for the social media platform said in an emailed statement, without giving further details. Read more »

Twitter says Facebook, Messenger accounts hacked

Reuters
Posted at Feb 08 01:28 PM

Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked. Read more »

ABS-CBN News now has 8-M subscribers on YouTube

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 09:00 AM

ABS-CBN News' YouTube channel welcomed its eight-millionth subscriber in January 2020. Read more »

Twitter notches first $1 billion quarterly revenue, beating estimates

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Updated as of Feb 06 10:15 PM

Twitter Inc pulled in $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more user-friendly brought in more people. Read more »

Twitter says state-backed actors may have accessed users' phone numbers

Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 11:55 AM

Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company's "contacts upload" feature. Read more »

As coronavirus misinformation spreads on social media, Facebook removes posts

Katie Paul, Reuters
Posted at Feb 01 10:37 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc said it will take down misinformation about China's fast-spreading coronavirus, in a rare departure from its usual approach to dubious health content that is presenting a fresh challenge for social media companies.   Read more »

‘Hugot’ tweets from ‘Nadine’ are going viral; fans clarify messages’ origin

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 24 08:05 PM

Lustre’s long-time fans know better than to fall for the fake page, as they started started a hashtag to inform others that #NadineHasNoTwitterAccount. Read more »

PH among countries tweeting most about K-pop in 2019

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 15 06:37 PM

The Philippines ranked fifth among the countries that were most engaged in talking about South Korean pop music on Twitter last year, according to the micro-blogging platform.   Read more »

'LOL!': China's informal, confrontational Twitter diplomacy

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 10:49 AM

The communist government has recently embraced Twitter despite blocking it within China, deploying its foreign ministry and a growing army of diplomats to tout or defend its policies to a global audience.   Read more »

Twitter to experiment with limiting replies in effort to combat online abuse

Reuters
Posted at Jan 09 09:49 AM

Social media firms are under pressure to address harassment on their sites, which often occurs in unsolicited replies targeting women and minorities, and Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has promised since 2018 to increase the "health" of public conversation. Read more »

Trump says Zuckerberg told him he's Facebook's 'number one'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 07:44 AM

President Donald Trump boasted Monday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told him at dinner he is "number one" on the global social media platform.  Read more »

#WWIII tops Twitter trends after US killing of Iranian general

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 04 09:35 AM

2020 is only a few days old and the Twitterverse has already turned ominous. Read more »

Reposts, retweets, revolutions: How social media sparked change in 2010s

ABS-CBN News Social Media Team
Posted at Jan 03 02:32 AM

Here are some events internationally and locally in the past decade, in which social media played a vital role in initiating sweeping social change. Read more »

Like, share, retweet: A decade of social media

ABS-CBN News Social Media Team
Updated as of Jan 01 06:03 PM

Even though many social networking sites started in the 2000s, social media only effectively embedded itself into our daily lives in the past 10 years.  Read more »

'Thanks sa piso': Grab refund stirs Twitter conversation

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 01 04:19 PM

Ride-sharing company Grab started refunding its users on Tuesday based on a ruling of the country's antitrust watchdog. Read more »

Twitter system 'outage' briefly blocked Trump whistleblower tweet

Reuters
Posted at Dec 30 08:37 AM

A tweet from US President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts. Read more »

Twitter, Facebook target state-linked accounts made to manipulate

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 21 07:24 PM

Twitter said it had blocked some 88,000 accounts linked to Saudi state-backed "information operations", in violation of its manipulation rules. Read more »

Pinoys in stitches as Japanese show ‘Terrace House’ introduces ‘Johnkimverlu’

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 19 10:53 PM

Filipinos being part of shows abroad is nothing new, but how this cast member of “Terrace House” was introduced has left many netizens in stitches as they openly wondered about his real name. Read more »

Top 10 'most-Tweeted-about' brands in Philippines in 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 19 06:28 PM

Find out what are the most-Tweeted-about brands in the Philippines in 2019?  Read more »

Trump says Greta Thunberg should 'chill,' go to movies

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 09:48 PM

Thunberg has become known for her fiery speeches to world leaders and was on Wednesday in Madrid, where she accused rich countries of "misleading" people into thinking they are taking meaningful action against climate change. Read more »