Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Earlier this year, I found myself inundated with ...

When it comes to social networks, Twitter is as noisy as it gets. You’d think the 140-character limitation would make it quiter, but in reality, it’s pretty much the opposite. This makes Twitter a ...

Twitter is rolling out its spam and abuse filter for Direct Messages, a month and a half after the company announced it had started testing the feature. The filter will be available on Twitter’s iOS, ...

Twitter announced today that it is removing its “Quality Filter” from search settings. This setting initially allowed users to filter out low-quality content like spam, but now Twitter says it was ...

Twitter is testing a new way to filter unwanted messages from your Direct Message inbox. Today, Twitter allows users to set their Direct Message inbox as being open to receiving messages from anyone, ...

Twitter is looking for input on two new potential features that could give users more control over the tone and quality of replies to their tweets. Filter and Limit, as shared by Twitter designer ...

Twitter has been accused of focusing its development efforts on the wrong things: giving us stickers, for instance, when some users are still being inundated with harassing messages. Why can it quicky ...

One unfortunate consequence of our increasingly online and digital world is that a single tweet can potentially derail your entire day. While Twitter is cracking down on accounts that violate its ...

Twitter has just published a nice little update to its mobile apps: photo filters, which should take the sting out of Instagram’s recent falling-out with the social network. Twitter for iPhone and ...

As of this week, Twitter offers photo filters inside its mobile app, a move that provides users with photo editing tools similar to those from Instagram — the Internet's hottest social photo sharing ...