TEHRAN, April 22 - Malaysian regulators will look into the activity of automated accounts on Twitter, known as bots, in the run-up to a general election if they get complaints about them, the communications and multimedia minister said.
TEHRAN, April 11 - The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not engage in "Twitter diplomacy" after U.S. President Donald Trump used the social media platform to warn Russia of imminent military action in Syria, the Interfax news agency reported.
TEHRAN, April 05 - Twitter says it has suspended over one million accounts for "promotion of terrorism" since 2015, claiming its efforts have begun to make the platform "an undesirable place" to call for violence.
TEHRAN, March 27 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif deplored recent arms deals between Riyadh and Washington, saying that while Yemenis “remain forgotten” by the West, the Saudi regime is happy about being milked.
TEHRAN, March 27 - Twitter on Monday announced a ban on ads for initial offerings of cryptocurrency or sales of virtual currency tokens, sending the value of bitcoin diving below $8,000.
TEHRAN, February 5 - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Donald Trump’s “wrong” criticism of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) after the president claimed that thousands of people were protesting because “the system is going broke."
TEHRAN, January 30 -The US Treasury’s long-awaited ‘Kremlin List’ released early on Tuesday has been mocked on Twitter. People question why it took US officials such a long time to compose if it just copies the Forbes list of Russia’s richest.
TEHRAN, January 27 - Twitter bots allegedly linked to Russia shared Donald Trump’s tweets almost half a million times during the final months of the 2016 US presidential election, the Twitter social networking service said in a report to Congress.
TEHRAN, November 18 -Social media users have slammed US President Donald Trump for ignoring his own history on sexual misconduct and staying largely silent about mounting sexual abuse allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore while weighing in on the sexual harassment claim against Democratic Senator Al Franken.
TEHRAN, November 2-US Internet giants Facebook, Twitter and Google were grilled by senators Tuesday over their role in Russia’s alleged efforts to compromise the 2016 US presidential election by placing political ads across the platforms. Some lawmakers went as far as to claim that Twitter, for instance, was “on the side of Russia” during the campaign, as it allowed the “Russia-linked” accounts to run ads.
TEHRAN, October 27 -The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee has asked Twitter for documents that include the direct-messaging history of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, days after the probe into “Russian meddling” in the 2016 elections fractured along party lines.
TEHRAN, October 1-US President Donald Trump has been warned to “quiet down” his Twitter account in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico.
TEHRAN, September 28 -Facebook, Google, and Twitter have reportedly been invited to testify before a US Senate panel over an investigation into Russia’s alleged intervention in the 2016 election, which yielded President Donald Trump.
TEHRAN, July 19, YJC - Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam news network categorically rejected spurious and bogus stories published in its Twitter account, which was hacked several days ago.
TEHRAN, July 4, YJC - A hashtag uniting those who detest the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is accumulating a significant following on Twitter.
The FBI appeared to go beyond the scope of existing legal guidance in seeking certain kinds of internet records from Twitter (TWTR.N) as recently as last year, legal experts said, citing two warrantless surveillance orders the social media company published on Friday.
The microblogging site Twitter popular among both men and women in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia is nothing more than "a source of lies" and evil, the kingdom's top Muslim cleric said.
Tehran, YJC. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended his government’s decision to ban Twitter, saying he was “obliged” to take whatever measure to protect national security.