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Anonymous tweeters may have just become a little less anonymous. Researchers have put together an algorithm that can predict the gender of a tweeter based solely on the 140 characters they choose to ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last month, Twitter announced plans to roll out a new kind of feed next year that will filter what users see ...

Want to game the system that Twitter’s trending algorithm uses to pick topics? Then shoot for bursts of activity rather than a gradual increase, Twitter spokesman Matt Graves tells NPR. Twitter's ...

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LONDON – Twitter says it’s investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to Black ones. The investigation comes after Twitter users noticed Black faces were less ...

If social media is the equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction, then Jack Dorsey would be a contender for the digital era’s Robert Oppenheimer. Speaking at the 16th annual Oslo Freedom Forum on ...

Want to know how “”Clash of the Titans”” will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social ...

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