Are you a good bot or a bad bot? In a small step against disinformation, Twitter introduced a new feature on Thursday to let “good” bot accounts self-identify as such and receive a profile label to ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Twitter is gearing up to remove scads of inactive accounts. That means one thing and one thing only: one lucky idiot might soon have rights to the handle @sexhaver, leaving the rest of us (losers; ...

Subscribe to WIRED and stay smart with more of your favorite Ideas writers. There’s much truth in this. Virality was perhaps Twitter’s greatest strength; yet, like all of the platform’s strengths, it ...

Last September, Twitter introduced a feature to differentiate “Good Bots,” accounts that publish legitimate and useful content, from spam bots. Now, the platform is rolling out the Good Bot label to ...

In the days after billionaire Elon Musk finalized his deal to buy Twitter, many users expressed their sense that the end of the platform was nigh. This included the virtue signaling that is standard ...

Whatever you may think of Twitter, love it, loathe it, only use it to see what crazy thing Donald Trump will tweet each morning, the platform has become the social platform for conversation (good and ...