The internet and Twitter in particular is one of the worst breeding grounds for harmful chatter and the company is hoping to address this issue with a new policy.

Twitter is admitting defeat and finally giving users the control over their feeds again, disabling the mandetory algorithm that populated feeds with undesireable content for over a year.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have come together to create a new open standard that’ll make it easier for users to transfer their data between applications. It’s called the the Data Transfer Project, and its goal is to let users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.”

Late last night, Twitter announced that a glitch in its system may have revealed the passwords of every one of its 336 millions of users, in deliciously easy-to-read plain text. While Twitter asserts that there’s no evidence that the information was leaked or misused, it strongly suggests that everybody changes their password right now.

There’s an adage around social media platforms and their associated apps and service: If you’re not paying for it, then you’re the product. It’s entirely reductive, of course – but it’s the belief that if a website or service is pending its time and resources to give you content without asking for anything in return, then they are probably selling information about you to others to make money, to sell ads or worse – some other nefarious purpose.

Despite being around for over a decade, popular micro-blogging, shout-at-digital-passers-by service Twitter has never made a profit. They’ve been operating for 12 years, burning through investor money without seeing a return. That’s changed. For the first time ever, Twitter has reported a quarterly profit. Twitter made a quarterly profit of $91m in the last quarter of 2017, compared with a …

Twitter is in the middle of trying to understand how users percieve their verification system, and are going to start making big steps in removing the blue tick from toxic users.

Since September, Twitter’s been testing its new expanded character limit, letting verbose users flood timelines with 280 character tweets. For some, it’s allowed them to express themselves more clearly, without having to edit their tweets to be concise. For others, it’s let them spew forth walls of garbage. Now everyone can use 280 characters.