Twitter's plan to nudge users into interacting with accounts they don't follow is starting to take shape. Three months after introducing topics, which allows Twitter users to follow interests the same ...

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Twitter tends to reveal a lot about people. The tweets they like, the accounts they follow, and their inane 280-character musings depict a sometimes not-so-complex picture of the platform's users. And ...

Twitter is set to roll out a new feature called "Topics" that allows users to follow conversations about subjects of interest, similar to how they'd follow an account. According to an official Twitter ...

Twitter is trying to make its trending topics easier to understand. The company will soon add pinned to tweets and descriptions to some of its trends in an effort to explain how and why trending ...

Twitter is launching a new “Communities” feature to host moderated discussions around specific topics. The company aims to let people have more intimate discussions of their hobbies and interests on ...

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Sen. Josh Hawley slammed Twitter’s response to the "Uncle Tim" trending topic against GOP Sen. Tim Scott as a "glaring double standard," calling the phrase "racist and grotesque.