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Twitter may be a cesspit, but sometimes it’s worth trudging through toxic waste in search of buried treasure. If you find a pithy wisecrack or a memorable meme, dysentery doesn’t feel so awful. Unless, of course, Twitter’s auto-refresh vaporizes the tweet before you’ve pulled it out of the pigshit. After tormenting users with this issue for years, the bird app has finally shown some mercy. Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will no longer automatically refresh your feed....

Well now here’s an interesting thought. Since the dawn of Twitter lists, users have found unique ways to organize them and keep track of groups of people that otherwise might not have been grouped together on the site. But what about branching beyond people? There’s really no way to do that on Twitter. But there might be, very soon, if the company’sacquisition of Bagcheckis pointing us where it would appear that it is....

Twitter has stirred up quite a bit of controversy over the past week following theannouncementthat it didn’t recommend developers built apps that compete with the company’s official clients. Now co-founder Biz Stone has spoken out, describing the situation as “Growing pains”. Speaking tothe BBC, Stone said “The question for developers is to ask themselves is how they can best serve the users. By another app that pretty much does the same thing as Twitter?...

You would think that a meeting between the founders of the world’s most popular social networks would be a fun affair, with conversation revolving around funding, investments and who has the bigger userbase. In reality, it appears it is a much more dour experience, at least if Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is to be believed. In November 2008, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams jumped into a car and ventured over to Facebook to meet Mark Zuckerberg, in a meeting which we recognise as the time when Facebook tried to buy Twitter....

Twitter has come under increasing public scrutiny for facilitating hostile communication online. While the micro-blogging site promotes itself as providinga “free” and “safe” space to talk, critics have highlighted the company’s inept response to repeated instances of trolling, harassment and abuse. Our researchinto how people present themselves and manage their interactions with other users on Twitter suggests that case-by-case responses are inadequate. We found Twitter’s design promotes avoidance as the easiest solution to hostility, without offering space for the kind of restorative activity that could lead to more genuine resolution of conflict....