Communications Major

By liking and retweeting every pointless and inconsequential Tweet in the past we have given the Twitter algorithm an untrue insight into what we really want to see. You will be served up with everything based on your past history this way, not what is truly meaningful. If you surround yourself with celebrities and like everything they say, that’s all you’ll ever see. Conversely, if you like tweets about local affairs and politics, then you’ll miss out on Kim Kardashian’s latest line of elastic band lingerie. It’s not all bad…

Twitter has released updated figures on how many of its users are automated, saying about 20 million accounts are probably bots of some form or another — but there is an upside to that number.

Twitter has updated some key language on its help page that indicates a permanent change in what users will see in their timelines.