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Twitter shares fell in Wednesday after-hours trading as the company revealed that its user numbers had declined sequentially.

“Today, we’re excited to share a new timeline feature that helps you catch up on the best Tweets from people you follow”, a Twitter blog said.

Dorsey reiterated Twitter‘s commitment to fix replies on an earnings call this afternoon.

The microblogger has been held back by what he called “broken windows” – or flaws in the user experience that can be fixed relatively easily.

When logging onto Twitter, they’ll see the tweets that Twitter’s algorithm believes they’re most likely to care about at the top of their timeline, going in reverse chronological order as they scroll down the new timeline.

Much like Facebook, which gives you the option to see the most recent stories or “top stories”, the feature is opt-in, which should calm at least some of the people down who were freaking out about this proposed change when word leaked last weekend.

If anything, the Football Supporters’ Federation were too moderate with their demand to peg ticket prices for away fans at £20.

According to a report in know-how web site Tech Crunch, Facebook has been given three months to make the modifications deemed needed by the data safety authority CNIL and failing to achieve this will incur heavy fines.

A boy in Florida has died after his cousin fell from a hoverboard causing a gun to fire, hitting him in the head.

The regulator said Facebook’s FB, -4.15% Free Basics service violated the principles of net neutrality, which call for equal treatment of all traffic on the Internet.

Its evident that Facebook’s Android apps have been draining of battery life and other resources.

Free Basics, one of Mark Zuckerberg dream projects, offers free but limited access to the Internet on mobile devices.

But critics say that Zuckerberg’s flagship project of offering universal mobile connectivity to India’s poorest through lightweight versions of Facebook and other websites provides preferential treatment to some internet-based services over others. “This...

Hearsay and positive thoughts isn’t enough to go on, so there’s a more scientific way to project how well a movie will do.

The Football Supporters’ Federation plans to convene a meeting of supporters from all 20 Premier League clubs in the next week to discuss the feasibility of a mass walkout. With their recent experience of orchestrated protest and a social media savvy that must make every...