# twitter - Tuesday 12 January, 2021
# Donald Trump
# Donald Trump
The social network began suspending accounts last Friday.
# twitter - Monday 11 January, 2021
# Twitter
# Twitter
The chancellor’s spokesperson said freedom of opinion should be intervened in within the framework defined by legislators.
# twitter - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Gone
# Gone
The social media giant also deleted tweets sent from the US presidential Twitter account after the ban.
# twitter - Thursday 7 January, 2021
# US Capitol
# US Capitol
Videos from inside the Capitol showing police taking selfies with protestors have been verified.
# Banned
# Banned
Twitter has given Trump until midday Irish-time to delete three of his tweets.
# twitter - Friday 1 January, 2021
# Abuse
From The42
# Abuse
The former England international received a barrage of abusive messages after her comments about the club.
# twitter - Saturday 26 December, 2020
# Go Tobann
# Go Tobann
TG4 has taken a distinctive approach for their social media presence: have the craic.
# twitter - Wednesday 16 December, 2020
# Hack
# Hack
Both the White House and Twitter have strenuously denied reports that the account had been hacked.
# twitter - Tuesday 15 December, 2020
# GDPR
# GDPR
It’s the first time a big tech company has been penalised under GDPR rules.
# twitter - Tuesday 8 December, 2020
# twitter - Tuesday 17 November, 2020
# US Election 2020
# US Election 2020
The companies have been criticised for their handling of political content recently.
# twitter - Friday 6 November, 2020
# Steve Bannon
# Steve Bannon
Bannon suggested that Dr Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded “as a warning to federal bureaucrats”.
# twitter - Wednesday 14 October, 2020
# United States
# United States
Twitter suspended the identified profiles because they were deceiving users about their intention and their identity.
# twitter - Monday 5 October, 2020
# US Election
# US Election
The US President sent 15 block-capital tweets in 30 minutes today, followed by a later tweet about yesterday’s waving to supporters.
# twitter - Wednesday 30 September, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The video on Twitter and Facebook accused Sinn Féin of being “two-faced and hypocritical”. But were the claims in it correct?
# twitter - Monday 28 September, 2020
# Twitter
# Twitter
The tweet in question was deleted but several screengrabs of the tweet and the comment were shared online today.
# twitter - Wednesday 12 August, 2020
# Sorry
From The42
# Sorry
The social media network is understood to have also apologised to the club.
# twitter - Thursday 6 August, 2020
# Top Tweets
# Top Tweets
Some senior political officials will also have their accounts labelled.
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
Facebook removed a post from the president while Twitter blocked a Trump campaign account.
# twitter - Wednesday 5 August, 2020
# Bitcoin Hack
# Bitcoin Hack
A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked including those of Kanye West, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama.
# twitter - Tuesday 4 August, 2020
# Tiktok
# Tiktok
A September deadline looms for the blockbuster acquisition.
# twitter - Saturday 1 August, 2020
# Hacked
# Hacked
The company said hackers attempted to mislead certain employees.
# twitter - Friday 31 July, 2020
# Banned
# Banned
The social media giant said these included violations of its abusive behaviour and sensitive media policies.
# twitter - Sunday 19 July, 2020
# Online
# Online
Fine Gael is generally seen to have been adept at social media – something heightened during Covid-19 crisis.
# twitter - Saturday 18 July, 2020
# Bitcoin
# Bitcoin
More than $100,000 (€87,000) worth of the virtual currency was sent to email addresses mentioned in the tweets
# twitter - Thursday 16 July, 2020
# Hack
# Hack
High-profile figures were hit by the security breach.
# twitter - Wednesday 15 July, 2020
# Bitcoin
# Bitcoin
The hack appears to suggest that those who donate bitcoins will have their donation doubled and returned.
# twitter - Friday 10 July, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Lawyer Paul Tweed says it’s ‘absurd’ for such companies to claim they are ‘merely a platform, not a publisher’.
# twitter - Monday 6 July, 2020
# Roderic O'Gorman
# Roderic O'Gorman
Roderic O’Gorman criticised the claims made on social media in recent days.
# twitter - Saturday 27 June, 2020
# Social Media
# Social Media
Unilver, home to brands like Lipton tea, also said it would suspend ads on social media until the end of 2020.
# twitter - Friday 19 June, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
Twitter has flagged a number of the US President’s tweets in recent weeks.
# twitter - Sunday 7 June, 2020
# The Notorious
From The42
# The Notorious
The 31-year-old Dublin man has previously made the same claim.
# twitter - Friday 29 May, 2020
# Executive Order
# Executive Order
Trump said the factchecks were ‘editorial decisions’ by Twitter and amounted to political activism.
# twitter - Thursday 28 May, 2020
# US President
# US President
Trump tweeted that more mail-in voting would lead to a “rigged election” in November. The US President votes by mail-in voting.
# twitter - Wednesday 27 May, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
Trump claimed postal voting would be “fraudulent” and that “mail boxes will be robbed”.
# twitter - Friday 22 May, 2020
# GDPR
# GDPR
Fines for breaches of GDPR can reach €20 million or up to 4% of a company’s turnover for the previous year.
# twitter - Wednesday 13 May, 2020
# WFH
# WFH
Twitter ’s EMEA headquarters are in Dublin where the company employees about 200 people.
# twitter - Friday 24 April, 2020
# Internet Money
# Internet Money
Varadkar said that the social media giants are “sort of free riders on costs incurred by other people”.
# twitter - Wednesday 8 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
“Why now? The needs are increasingly urgent, and I want to see the impact in my lifetime,” Dorsey said.
# twitter - Thursday 19 March, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
The site said tweets which place people at risk of contracting the illness would contravene its safety rules.
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