Unemployment rate in the U.S falls to lowest in 50 years. Trump takes to Twitter to announce this 'Breaking News'

A good news for President Donald Trump

Keeping up with the country's trend of making spelling errors while attacking India on Twitter, Pakistan Army spokesperson Asif Ghafoor on Wednesday called Kashmir the jugular "vain" of Pakistan, inviting trolls. Watch this video to know more.

Pakistan Army spokesperson Asif Ghafoor trolled for calling Kashmir country's jugular 'vain'

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has responded with wry humour on Twitter to patronising comments made about her by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The 16-year-old changed her Twitter biography to say "A kind but poorly informed teenager" after Putin described her in these terms at a Moscow forum this week.

Greta Thunberg mocks Putin's 'kind girl' jibes on Twitter

WION Dispatch: Pakistan Army spokesperson trolled for calling Kashmir country's jugular 'vain'

Twitter Inc said late on Tuesday that the social media website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck was hit with an outage, with thousands of global users left in the dark.

Twitter, TweetDeck suffer global outage, thousands hit

Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at US President Donald Trump's attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile description on the website to reflect Trump's taunting remark.

Greta takes on Trump's Twitter taunt, changes profile description to 'very happy young girl'

Congress leader Milind Deora on Tuesday issued a clarification after his Twitter exchange with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the `Howdy Modi` event in Houston led to what he called "insinuations and unwarranted criticism".

Milind Deora regrets 'insinuations' on Twitter exchange with PM

Tech companies led by Facebook on Monday joined world leaders in ramping up an industry body to weed out extremist content online, giving it a permanent staff. Facebook announced the steps at the United Nations, where French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern chaired a meeting on extremist risks on the internet.

Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content

Twitter said on Friday that it has closed down thousands of accounts across the world for spreading fake news as well as pro-government propaganda in places like the United Arab Emirates, China, and Spain.

Twitter closes thousands of accounts worldwide in a bid to curb fake news

With only 50 days to go to Bollywood's Badshah Shah Rukh Khan's birthday, his fans decided to express their excitement by taking to social media and revealing their plans to wish their star on his D-day.

#50DaysForSRKDay: Shah Rukh Khan's fans on Twitter begin countdown for his birthday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for reaching out to masses through social media, continues to be the most followed Indian on Twitter with his followers crossing 50 million mark on the microblogging site.

PM Narendra Modi crosses 50 million followers on Twitter

Twitter said Friday the account of chief executive Jack Dorsey had been "compromised" after a series of erratic and offensive messages were posted. The tweets containing racial slurs and suggestions about a bomb showed up around 2000 GMT on the @jack account of the founder of the short messaging service before being deleted.

Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey has his own account hacked, offensive tweets posted

US President Donald Trump insisted on Sunday that he was getting along well with leaders at a G7 summit in France, but rifts emerged with his Western allies on issues ranging from his trade war with China to Iran, North Korea and Russia.

Beneath show of bonhomie, rifts emerge between Donald Trump and Western allies at G7 summit

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan tweets India diverting attention from Kashmir. Watch this video to know more.

WION Dispatch: Pakistan PM Imran Khan tweets against India

Google on Thursday said it disabled a series of YouTube channels that appeared to be part of a coordinated influence campaign against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Google says YouTube campaign targeted Hong Kong protests

Twitter, Facebook dismantle social media campaign in China that tried to undermine Hong Kong protests Twitter and Facebook said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.

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Twitter and Facebook said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.

Twitter, Facebook dismantle social media campaign in China that tried to undermine Hong Kong protests

China said on Tuesday it had a right to put out its own views after Twitter and Facebook said they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong.

China cries foul after Facebook, Twitter block fake accounts linked to Hong Kong protests

Twitter and Facebook have taken down over 900 accounts linked to the Chinese government. Social media platforms said that the accounts were associated with inauthentic activities and these accounts were targeting the ongoing Hong Kong protests.

China's disinformation campaign busted

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday sought to ease tension after violent protests in several cities in Papua in response to claims of racist abuse and physical mistreatment of students from the country's easternmost region.

Indonesia president urges calm after violent protests in Papua cities

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday responded to Norway's decision to halt its forest protection subsidies, taking to Twitter to criticise the Scandinavian country for its whaling practice and post spectacular albeit misleading images.

Brazil President Bolsonaro takes on Norway over whaling but bungles it

Last month after Donald Trump watched Fox News lob what he called "softball questions" at a Democratic lawmaker, the US president delivered a crisp smackdown of his favourite network: "Fox sure ain't what it used to be.

Is Trump's love affair with Fox News fading?

Police in Southeast China's Fujian province have launched an investigation after a FedEx parcel sent from the United States was found to contain a handgun, the latest Chinese-related problem to affect the US package delivery firm.

Chinese police investigate FedEx package containing handgun

Twitter users will be able to follow a small number of interests by the end of the year in the same way they follow people, the company said Tuesday. The feature will be rolled out internationally as the one-to-many messaging platform prioritizes being an online venue for conversations rather than a pulpit for one-way broadcasting to the masses.

Twitter to let users follow interests as well as people

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