Twitter’s hilarious reaction to Giorgio Chiellini’s cynical shirt tug foul on Bukayo Saka

Saving Saka from a cliff edge, keeping him from the European Championship trophy… and a Superman impression!: Giorgio Chiellini’s pull-back on England winger gets the meme treatment as fans joke about his outrageous foul in the Euro 2020 final Bukayo Saka was hauled down to the ground by defender Giorgio Chiellini  Saka nipped past the … Read more

Elon Musk ‘fills the gap left behind by Donald Trump’ as Twitter’s most controversial public figure

In July 2018, Musk attacked British diver Vern Unsworth, who had dismissed the Tesla chief’s efforts to help the rescue mission for the 12 boys as a ‘PR stunt’ in a widely seen interview on CNN. Musk, without providing any justification or explanation, referred to Unsworth as ‘pedo guy’ in a since-deleted tweet. ‘Pedo’ is … Read more

Russia throttles Twitter’s internet speeds for 50 per cent of users

Russia accidentally shut down some of its own government websites after a move to slash Twitter’s internet speeds backfired,  Web pages for Kremlin.ru and several other government departments failed to load for about an hour shortly after Roscomnadzor, Russia’s communications watchdog, said it had started slowing down Twitter’s services over its refusal to remove harmful content. … Read more

Twitter’s ‘Bean dad’ apologises for can opener ‘teaching moment’

The man behind the furious ‘bean dad’ controversy has issued an apology after he boasted about making his nine-year-old daughter go hungry for six hours while she worked out how to open a can of beans by herself. Seattle musician and podcaster John Roderick, 52, found himself at the center of a firestorm over the … Read more

Elon Musk and Bill Gates Twitters hacked with tweets prompting users to send money to bitcoin

Billionaires HACKED: Elon Musk Bill Gates and Bloomberg’s Twitter accounts share scam tweet that prompts hundreds of victims to send thousands of dollars to a bitcoin account that promises return of  ‘double the amount’ Elon Musk’s and Bill Gates’s  Twitter account appears to have been hacked  A tweet said he would double any amount sent … Read more

Head of Twitter’s fact checking has a history of anti-Trump tweets

The head of Twitter’s fact-checking team has previously tweeted that the Trump administration are Nazis, compared adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist. The previous tweets from Yoel Roth, whose official title at Twitter is head of Site Integrity, emerged after the social media giant put a fact-checking warning on two … Read more

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey gives nearly $400m less to charity than the $1 billion he claimed

Billionaire Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has given nearly $400 million less to his coronavirus relief effort than the ‘billion dollars’ he claimed, federal documents reveal. Earlier this month Dorsey tweeted that he would be donating $1 billion – which he said was about 28% of his wealth – to a fund he set up to … Read more