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Twitter

Periscope is a live video streaming app for Android and iOS developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015.

Periscope

Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users' videos were published through Vine's social network and could be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app could also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos. Vine competed with other social media services such as Instagram and Mobli.

Vine

X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications.  As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.  X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington.  X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.

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The latest bombshell about Twitter's alleged lack of security and potential vulnerabilities is yet another sign that social media networks shouldn't be trusted to regulate themselves.

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The feds need to take very seriously what is now being alleged by Peiter Zatko about former employer Twitter, maybe the world's most popular social media company.

Listen to the whistle: Insider Peiter Zatko imperils Twitter

A long and detailed complaint about lax practices by the social media firm's former security chief must be music to Elon Musk's ears

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In the days since it was first reported that former Twitter head of security Peiter "Mudge" Zatko had filed an explosive whistleblower disclosure, the company has had to confront renewed scrutiny from lawmakers, a dip in its stock price and added uncertainty in its high-stakes legal battle with billionaire Elon Musk.

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A stunning whistleblower disclosure from Twitter's former head of security accuses the company of having a reactive approach to misinformation and platform manipulation, a disconnect between product and safety teams, content moderation shortcomings and a lack of controls to prevent foreign interference, all of which could raise questions about the company's ability to handle election-related threats ahead of the US midterms later this year.

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Zatko's whistleblower complaint — filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July and made public Tuesday — accused Twitter of failing to upgrade its server infrastructure, thus leaving it vulnerable to severe breaches.

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A US judge told Twitter on Thursday to surrender more data to Elon Musk on fake accounts, a key issue the billionaire is using to try to cancel his buyout bid.

Twitter ordered to give Musk additional bot account data

The Delaware judge overseeing the case ordered Twitter to turn over to Musk some more data on accounts, but far less than the billionaire demanded.

A judge called Elon Musk's latest request absurd, but still handed him another win in his Twitter lawsuit

A Delaware judge called Elon Musk's request for years of data about Twitter Inc.'s spam and fake accounts “absurdly broad” but ordered the social-media company to provide a subset of the information in the continuing legal battle over the billionaire's soured $44 billion takeover.

Elon Musk's request for bot data is ‘absurdly broad' but Twitter must turn over a subset, judge rules

The company had said the information did not exist, but it sampled 9,000 users in order to estimate the number of spam accounts

Judge orders Twitter to turn over to Elon Musk data from 2021 users audit

But the judge rejected other Musk demands as "absurdly broad."

Twitter ordered to turn over some data on fake accounts to Elon Musk

Meta and Twitter purge web of accounts spreading pro-U.S. propaganda abroad

Twitter is officially delving into the world of podcasts. The social network announced today that it's integrating podcasts into Twitter as part of its newly designed Spaces tab.

Twitter is officially adding podcasts to its platform

Twitter Inc. provided data for spam and robot accounts that was "explicitly an estimate" to billionaire Elon Musk, who hasn't shown any reason why that information is relevant to his plan to ditch a $44 billion buyout of the social-media platform, the company's lawyer told a Delaware judge.

Twitter attorney says bot data given to Musk was 'explicitly an estimate'

The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security and a key subcommittee demanded Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal address "disturbing whistleblower allegations regarding poor security and privacy practices."

U.S. House chair demands Twitter CEO answer whistleblower allegations

An explosive whistleblower disclosure by Twitter's former head of security this week exposes the company to new federal investigations and potentially billions of dollars in fines, tougher regulatory obligations or other penalties from the US government, according to legal experts and former federal officials.

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The whistleblower's allegation on Twitter's security practices have invited scrutiny from the U.S. Senate and data protection regulators in Europe, and a date has been set for Zatko's hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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The Twitter whistleblower's complaint lays bare a claim that has long been whispered about: Twitter is poorly managed.

The Twitter whistleblower's claims lay bare one of Silicon Valley's biggest open secrets

Twitter's Jack Dorsey has long been called an absent, indecisive, and uncommunicative leader. A whistleblower's new claims strengthen that reputation.

It's long been an open secret in Silicon Valley that Twitter is a poorly run mess. Now a whistleblower is blowing the lid off and giving Elon Musk ammo for his legal battle.

A Twitter ex-employee has turned whistleblower, claiming that the social media platform has serious inefficiencies in its security practices.

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Elon Musk's lawyers repeatedly referenced claims from a Twitter whistleblower in court on Wednesday, in an early preview of how the billionaire's side might use the new allegations in his legal battle with the social media company over their $44 billion acquisition agreement.

Musk lawyers bring up Twitter whistleblower in court hearing on acquisition deal

Twitter's former head of security, who filed a whistleblower disclosure about the company, will testify in a Senate hearing next month, the same day that Twitter shareholders are set to vote on whether to approve Elon Musk's takeover deal.

Twitter whistleblower to testify at Senate Judiciary hearing next month

It was the first time that an influence operation promoting U.S. interests abroad had been discovered and taken down from the social media platforms.

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