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This weekend The Telegraphreportedthat Twitter had revealed the name, email address and telephone number of Ahmed Khan, a UK council whistleblower accused of libelling his local authority using a number of anonymous twitter accounts and blogMr Monkey. The council in question, Tyneside, took the case to the legal superior court of California, which in turn issued a subpoena to Twitter on April 14th 2011. According to Khan, what Twitter handed over was “just a great long list of numbers” and ordered it to hand over 30 pieces of information relating to several Twitter accounts, including@fatcouncillorand@ahmedkhan01....

We previously wroteabout an upcoming change from Twitter that allows you to send private messages to larger/celebrity accounts even if they weren’t following you. Now there’s a new app (not from Twitter) that allows you to send a private message to anyone, regardless of whether they’re following you or not. This is done throughTwitgram, which you can use to compose your message without a 140 character limit, to send directly to the user you want....

Twitter has officially launched Twitter Blue, a paid subscription service that offers users premium features for a monthly fee. The first iteration of the product started rolling out on Thursday in Canada and Australia, at a cost of$3.49 CAD and $4.49 AUD, respectively, per month. Twitter has not revealed when the service will be available in other markets. [Read:This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips]...

Of the many bright ideas Twitter seems to have coined, the “140 characters or less” concept seems to be its shining star. We’vesaid it beforeand we’ll say it again — The unique brevity of the platform forces us to “cut out the fluff” and limit us to sharing only the most important bits of information.The Wall Street Journalreports that this same concept is now taking hold of our education system....

The two types of consumers you’ll need to woo this holiday season Unsurprisingly, 2020 might be a bit different from what we’re used to What’s in store It’s no secret that retailers are learning on the fly how to cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic. Although it’s tempting to hunker down — and double down — on time-tested marketing and sales methods, now is the time to rethink and rewire sales, operations, logistics, and support....