Twitter suffered a major outage as photos and links went offline for all users for an elongated period of time today, while some users reported the entire social network's site wasn't functioning. [Read More]
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Twitter has updated its policies on how it is handling content related to the war in Ukraine. In an update published Tuesday, the company says it will no longer allow government-affiliated accounts to tweet photos of prisoners of war (PoWs) in the context of Ukraine. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-05 22:35
After spending nearly 200 days in space during his second mission to the International Space Station (ISS), French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has returned to Earth after having captured nearly a quarter of million photos. dpreview.com »
2021-11-30 18:58
Twitter made its platform more photo-friendly last spring when it did away with cropping of images in feeds, but strangely this feature did not come to the web. That changes today, as full-size images are now supported across all platforms. petapixel.com »
2021-11-11 20:09
Twitter is testing Tweets that span the full width of the timeline so that photos, videos, and gifs take center stage. The company has announced that the change is designed to make it easier for visual content to shine. petapixel.com »
2021-09-07 22:25
Twitter has wrapped its first bounty program for artificial intelligence bias on the platform, and the results have highlighted an issue that has been noted as a problem in the past. According to a report from CNET, researcher Bogdan Kulynych (who took home the $3,500 prize) has found that an important algorithm on the platform […] petapixel.com »
2021-08-11 02:26
“Black women in fantasy photography thread because even though our presence is small, I will not be deterred,” said one woman and started a now-viral thread with jaw-dropping photos of black beauty. boredpanda.com »
2020-08-11 09:32
Following hot on the heels of Instagram’s new (and at times controversial) “False Information” warning, Twitter has just announced its own policy around labeling and warning users about photos and videos that have been “deceptively altered” and manipulated. petapixel.com »
2020-02-05 23:48
Twitter has updated its platform with two new useful features for photographers: iOS Live Photos support and better JPEG quality. Both changes are live now. Live Photos are a type of image that can be captured using an iPhone or iPad; in addition to the image, Live Photos include the 1. dpreview.com »
2019-12-12 22:30
Fashion, entertainment, technology have all evolved over time and the Twitter page @historyinmoment is dedicated to sharing "pictures and quotes from the past," so people can learn or reminisce about times past. boredpanda.com »
2019-05-29 13:15
Twitter has just announced that auto-cropping of photos on the social networking service will be producing much better results thanks to a new neural network that has been trained for the task. Twitter has been a platform for photo sharing since 2011, but cropping shared photos into neat previews has been a challenge for developers. […] petapixel.com »
2018-01-25 23:50