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Twitter has made its first significant product update since Jack Dorsey returned to the helm on Monday: A feature called “Moments” that collects tweets, photos, and videos related to a single ...
This article, Facebook hijacks Trending feature from rival Twitter, was originally published at Computerworld.com. Sharon Gaudin covers the Internet and Web 2.0, emerging technologies, ...
Twitter said the question “why is this trending?” was tweeted over half a million times in 2019. Starting today, the trending topics will have a tweet pinned with them to offer context around ...
Twitter is working on a new feature that will provide users with more context on trending topics. In the current version, Twitter Trends only mentions the topic that is trending along with the ...
Facebook has launched "trending," a new feature designed to surface popular topics being talked about on the site, in a move that increases its rivalry with Twitter, and, eventually, could also ...
Two months after the introduction of hashtags, Facebook is all set to experiment with another Twitter feature – trending topics. According various media reports, the service is only being tested ...
Calls for Twitter and Facebook to temporarily halt their respective trending features in the U.S. ahead of the 2020 presidential election are gaining steam with just two weeks until Election Day.
Twitter said Tuesday that it would add more context to topics that trend on its service, an effort to clean up a feature that has often been used to amplify hate and disinformation.. The change ...
Twitter is going to start adding pinned tweets and descriptions on trends to help explain why something is trending. “Trends show what everyone is talking about right now. But too often, we look at ...
Twitter is testing a new feature that shows information about trending TV shows in some users’ streams. Twitter user @asg spotted the trending boxes in the Twitter iOS app yesterday evening, but ...
A new feature on Facebook designed to keep people abreast of certain topics has sparked criticism from some users who want it gone, calling it nothing more than a cheap Twitter knock-off. The ...