Tag: Twitter

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Venezuelan FM says Brazil did invite Maduro over to Bolsonaro's inauguration

  

  Venezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Sunday announced President Nicolás Maduro had been invited to the presidential inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro on January 1 in Brasilia.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Twitter deletes automated accounts discouraging people from voting in US midterm elections

  

  Twitter has deleted an estimated 10,000 automated accounts that were posting messages discouraging people from taking part in next week's US mid-term elections.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Apple pays €14.3bn to the Irish treasury, an EU tax Dublin does not want to collect

  

  Apple has paid the Irish government €14.3bn (£12.7bn), money that the European Commission ruled the tech giant owed due to illegal tax breaks. Ireland's Finance ministry said the payment was a “significant milestone”, although Dublin insists Apple was not given any special tax treatment. In 2016 the Commission ruled the below 1% effective tax rate the firm paid in Ireland amounted to illegal state aid.

• Friday, January 5th 2018 - 10:57 UTC

  Maduro announced the bonus of Reyes Magos of almost a minimum wage

  

  Four days before the beginning of an election year in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro announced on national television that he will grant a bonus of 500,000 bolivares, the equivalent of US$ 3.9, to those who possess the Carnet de la Patria, an identity document created by the government that serves to regulate the purchase of food and tools with which users can access pensions or bonuses of this style in exchange for their loyalty to the government party.

• Thursday, September 28th 2017 - 23:51 UTC

  Twitter doubles character limit to 280, except for Chinese, Japanese and Korean

  

  Twitter on Tuesday announced that it is doubling its character limit to 280 for all languages except Japanese, Chinese and Korean. At its inception, a tweet, modeled after an SMS message, was restricted to 140 characters. Over the years, Twitter found ways to sneak in a few more characters, first by excluding any form of media and later the @reply from the character count.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:27 UTC

  Under pressure from government ‘Twitterman’ Timerman off the air

  

  This last week when twitter was celebrating its sixth year, Argentina’ Foreign Affairs minister, the official which made most use of the social network finally decided to close its account and come off the air.

• Friday, April 29th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina among top users of social network Twitter

  

  Three Latin American countries figure among the ten top users of social network Tiwtter according to a release from comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, based on the comScore Media Metris service.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 02:51 UTC

  In less than a year Twitter’s value has soared to 3.7 billion USD

  

  Twitter has raised 200 million US dollars of financing in a deal that value the micro-blogging company at 3.7 billion, less than a year after it began its first serious efforts to make money.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 23:39 UTC

  “Boobquake” Day Shakes Taiwan and South Sandwich Islands

  

  If a senior Iranian cleric is to be believed, the 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan was a boobquake, not an earthquake. Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi warned last week that “women, who do not dress modestly... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which [consequently] increases earthquakes”.