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The hackers changed Burger King's bio, saying the company was sold to rival McDonalds because the Whopper had flopped. McDonalds tweeted "Not Us!" The hackers, however, brought Burger King 30,000 new followers.

Someone tweets real news articles in which a "Florida Man" does dumb things. Public Policy Polling checked Florida Man's approval rating, and found his numbers are better than many politicians.

A program that makes poems from our tweets / With rhyming lines and smooth iambic beats ... Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote a program to find tweets in iambic pentameter and retweet them in rhyming pairs. With NPR's Jacki Lyden, he shares some of the resulting couplets.

You may want to think twice before bragging about all of those Twitter followers you've racked up. Apps and websites help figure out which followers are real, fake and "inactive" users.

O'Brien has been working in the State Department as the administration's hostage negotiator. He'll replace former Ambassador John Bolton, who parted company with Trump.

Twitter blocked hundreds of accounts the Indian government said were inciting violence. Then it unblocked them. Now it's stuck between Indian law and defending free speech.

It's the bear body-positive competition you didn't know you needed.

Now that Elon Musk owns Twitter, some of the social network's users are looking for alternatives. One that's ballooned in the past two weeks is Mastodon.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal about Twitter's impact, and what would be lost if the social network collapsed.

Many people who tried to access content on the platform were met with error messages. Twitter CEO Elon Musk said "extreme levels of data scraping" were affecting user experience on the site.

Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter are among companies in the tech and travel sectors which had a strong and swift reaction to President Donald Trump's executive orders on refugees and immigration.

Tell Me More Editor Ammad Omar highlights some of the Twitter education conversations going on at #NPREdChat.

On Tuesday morning, lawyers for WikiLeaks backers tried to persuade a federal magistrate judge to unseal the government's request for details about four private Twitter accounts. The Justice Department wants more information about some tweets in its probe into the leak of confidential U.S. documents.

Also: Five oil rig workers are missing after an Oklahoma blast; Vice President Mike Pence says without changes, the U.S. will leave the Iran nuclear deal; and jazz musician Hugh Masekela dies.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with podcast host Chika Uwazie about leaving Nigeria due to a political atmosphere which set off a social media crackdown, threats and economic consequences.

Over a year ago, former President Donald Trump got booted from social media sites owned by Meta and Twitter. He vowed to create his own, and Truth Social launched on Monday.

1968 was a pivotal year in civil rights history. In our new project, we'll be tweeting news, articles and moments from that year as if it were all happening today.

The social media company is asking a Delaware court to force the world's richest man to follow through on his agreement to buy it for $44 billion.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN about President Trump's comments about players who don't stand for the national anthem and the ensuing backlash.

The social media company appeared to be on solid legal ground when it sued the Tesla CEO to force him to complete the merger. But allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief may help Musk's case.