Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies. Republican Trump, who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives, without evidence, stepped up his attacks on Twitter after the company put a fact-checking label on two of his tweets about mail-in ballots on Tuesday for the first time. "We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told Fox News, Trump's preferred broadcaster. Both sites take down content that violates their terms of service, but Facebook's approach, he said, has "distinguished us from some of the other tech companies in terms of being stronger on free expression and giving people a voice." While Facebook does apply labels to misleading posts, it exempts from review posts by politicians, a decision that some lawmakers and presumptive Democratic presidential … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter in Trump fight
Twitter allows users to schedule tweets from its web app
Recently, Twitter revealed that it is testing a feature that will allow users to limit how many people can reply to their tweets. You can select to allow everyone, people you follow, or only people you mention in the tweet. Presently, the company is testing this new feature with a limited number of people on Android, iOS, and Web. The company has promised to make this feature live soon. If you set a limit on replies on your tweet, people will be able to see your tweet and they can also like and retweet it but they will not be able to reply to it. The company has also said that it will label the tweets which have limited reply settings so the user will know that they cannot reply to a particular tweet. … [Read more...] about Twitter allows users to schedule tweets from its web app
Twitter is testing a new layout on iOS and the web
The company has not revealed the region in which it is testing these features, or how big is the size of the testing or group. There is also no word on when it will be rolled out publicly. Along with this, Twitter has also announced that it is working on a new moderation tool that will warn users before they post replies that it consists of harmful language. Twitter said that the feature is presently in an experimental stage and it is only showing up for iOS users right now. Users will now notice a prompt that will pop up in some situations and will give users the option to revise their reply before it is published if it consists of harmful language. The company informed users about this feature via a tweet. The tweet reads, “When things get heated, you may say things you don't mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could … [Read more...] about Twitter is testing a new layout on iOS and the web
Twitter brings a new way to add comments for iOS users
NEW DELHI: Microblogging website Twitter has announced that it has introduced a new way to see how many people have retweeted a tweet and added a comment. This new feature is presently available for iOS only. The new feature rolled out by Twitter help in organising all the retweets with comments into a handy list. In order to access the list users just have to tap on a tweet and then tap on the word ‘Retweets’. Users will then see retweets broken out into two columns— one will consist of commenting on the retweets and another one a list of retweets with no comment. The company also tweeted a video explaining the feature. Along with the video the company tweeted, “Don’t miss the Tweets about your Tweet. Now on iOS, you can see Retweets with comments all in one place.” As reported by The Verge, some iOS users are able to access the new feature and Twitter has also confirmed that the same feature will be available for Android users in the coming … [Read more...] about Twitter brings a new way to add comments for iOS users
Twitter finally lets you schedule tweets
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