Twitter shares rose yesterday after Bloomberg reported that an activist investor has built a sizable stake in the social media company and is pushing for changes, including possibly replacing co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey.

Twitter pulled in $1bn (€907m) in quarterly revenue for the first time, beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more user-friendly brought in more people, and sending its shares up 16% at one stage.

What will I miss out on if I delete WhatsApp for a week, perhaps even a month? Would it be the same as not checking the postbox every five minutes pre-1998?

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has discussed how the ability to edit tweets could work on the platform, after again being asked about introducing the feature.

Twitter has claimed its decision not to remove violent far-right videos shared by Donald Trump had nothing to do with the episode making global headlines.

Twitter shares surged after third-quarter earnings beat expectations, while investors shrugged off a company mistake that resulted in an over-estimation of monthly active users going back three years.

Twitter shares plunged by nearly 12% yesterday after the social media giant reported a yearly increase in active users but lower advertising revenue.

A new report, to be published by Ditch the Label, found the people of Co Tyrone to post the most misogynistic Tweets.

Twitter shares plunged yesterday, a day after the technology website Recode reported that Alphabet’s Google and Disney would not bid for the social network and Apple was unlikely to be a suitor.

Twitter has been going through a lot of changes over the last couple of years, with staff coming and going and the remit of the site shifting to something closer to a news outlet rather than a straight social platform.

Twitter may loosen up its character limit this week, allowing you to add images, video, and more without eating into precious characters.

Twitter has agreed to acquire a London-based artificial intelligence startup to make tweeted live videos look more professional. 

Twitter is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages.

Twitter is reportedly planning to drop links and photos from its 140-character limit on tweets in a bid to make the service easier to use.

Twitter marks its 10th anniversary today, with the social media site having hosted some of the biggest social movements of the last 10 years, yet uncertainty still hangs over its future.

Twitter will be sticking with its 140-character limit on tweets despite rumours that it would be upping it to as much as 10,000 characters.

Twitter’s average monthly active users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2015 — the first flat quarter sequentially since the company listed in 2013.

Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered by Facebook and other forums.

Twitter investor Chris Sacca got his way, instead of clicking on a star to ‘favourite’ a tweet, users will click on a heart to ‘like’ it.

Twitter has named co-founder and interim chief executive Jack Dorsey as its permanent CEO, ending months of speculation about who would take the reins at the company.

The Irish arm of social media giant Twitter last year returned to profit, new documents show.

Twitter is embracing Jack Dorsey as its chief executive in the hopes that its once-spurned co-founder can hatch a plan to expand the short messaging service’s audience and end nearly a decade of financial losses.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Twitter is finally waking up to the idea that some things just cannot be summed up in 140 characters.

Twitter is apparently working on a way to give users more freedom; users may soon be able to express themselves in more than 140 characters.

Twitter’s departing chief Dick Costolo says that while he is confident in the current direction of the company, he also is willing to let the next CEO make the changes the person wants to make.

As Twitter chief executive officer Dick Costolo’s departure was cheered by stockholders, his fans struck a different note, flooding the micro-blogging site he has steered for nearly five years with messages of gratitude and support.

Social media giant Twitter celebrates its ninth birthday today, and to mark the occasion the site has been recalling some of the biggest posts from its history.

If anyone was in the slightest doubt how much technology touches all our lives, they only have to look to the success of the annual Web Summit in Dublin.

A global credit card payment service founded by two millionaire brothers from Limerick has partnered with social media giant Twitter to allow users to buy directly from the micro-blogging site.

FINANCIALLY, the internet has been no friend to the music, newspaper or book businesses. But it’s doing wonders for the art world. According to a recent report by art insurers Hiscox, the value of the global online fine art market is set to more than double, from an estimated $1.57 billion in 2013 to $3.76bn by 2018.

Twitter’s stock has sunk to an all-time low after a post-initial public offering lock-up period preventing employees and early investors from selling expired.

Twitter marked its eighth birthday by launching a new tool enabling users to look up their first tweet, and that of anyone who uses the social media site.

Amazon.com is teaming up with Samsung and other media companies to bring “4K” ultra high-definition television to the masses.

Twitter’s shares got off to a flying start on the NYSE, but can the company make money, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

Investors don’t care about retweets, they only care about making money. So what's next for Twitter after the second-largest tech IPO in history?

Twitter soared as much as 92% in its first day of trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange as investors snapped up shares in the popular microblogging site in a frenzy that recalled the days of the dot-com bubble.

Shares in Twitter have gone on sale to the public for the first time, instantly leaping more than 70% above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes.

Twitter, a privately-held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet.

Twitter has set the ball rolling for one of the most eagerly anticipated stock market flotations since Facebook took the plunge last year.

WHAT do Bruce Springsteen and Simon Cowell have in common?

A host of celebrities celebrated seven years of Twitter yesterday.

Founder Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on this date in 2006. I sent my first on the same date in 2009. I found my voice and a career as a media commentator, so Happy Birthday, says Barbara Scully

The business was only dreamed up in a Dublin bedroom a little over two years ago, but already the companies behind the Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders have recorded profits of over €450,000.

ONE of the co-founders of Facebook is being tipped as a speaker for the next Dublin Web Summit — which is one of the largest tech events in Ireland and Britain.