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If you’re planning to reply “FUCK YOU!” or something similar to a tweet, Twitter will make you think twice — literally. Starting today, the social network company is rolling out new prompts that aim you to stop from posting mean replies. Twitter started thisexperiment last Maywith a limited set of users on iOS. Now it’s expanding to all users on Android and iOS. The company said that this will cover potentially harmful or offensive replies — such as insults, strong language, or hateful remarks — in English for now....

Twitter has launched a new initiative called “Responsible ML” that will investigate the harms caused by the platform’s algorithms. The company said on Wednesday that it will use the findings to improve the experience on Twitter: This may result in changing our product, such as removing an algorithm andgiving people more control over the images they Tweet, or in new standards into how we design and build policies when they have an outsized impact on one particular community....

Two weeks after the UK governmentannouncedit was to meet with three key social networks in the wake of the riots that swept across England, Facebook, Twitter and RIM (makers of BlackBerry) met with the Home Secretary in London. And it transpired that placingrestrictionson the social networks wasn’t discussed at the meeting – it was more about helping the relevant authorities to develop skills in using social networking services. Another three weeks on, the FTreportsthat the three aforementioned companies are being hauled again in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Thursday, to feed into a discussion around “policing large scale disorder”....

As wereportedearlier today, UK-based social search service DataSift has secured $6m in funding to expand its Twitter-sanctioned social data search platform for power users and developers who want to create complex searches across the social Web. As a demo of the platform, DataSift has just launched a rather cool Web app calledDataSift Invaders. It’s like Space Invaders but powered by Twitter-related data such as sentiment analysis and rankings from the likes of Klout and PeerIndex....

Twitter isputting a damp towelon the fiery whispering that Google might be in talks to pick up the social darling for as much as $10 billion. Today at the Mobile World Congress, Twitter’s Dick Costolo said, in response to questions surrounding the much talked about potential $10 billion Google deal, that “I don’t know where these things come from. It’s just a rumor.” However, on a follow-up question, Costolo was demure on whether the company was talking to Facebook....