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You might be missing DMs on social media. Here’s how to fix it.

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Tweeting a spoiler? Put a content warning on it.

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

By Colleen Hagerty

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6 Twitter alternatives, in case you’re looking

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Pending any plot twists, Elon Musk will soon own Twitter

By Charlotte Hu

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Live in bliss by tuning out news stories you’re tired of hearing about

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Elon Musk will no longer join Twitter’s board

By Colleen Hagerty

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How to read the news without doomscrolling through social media

By Harry Guinness

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How to start a livestream from your phone

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AI confirms the obvious: The pandemic bummed people out

By Charlotte Hu

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What do ‘lurkers’ get out of Twitter?

By Charlotte Hu

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How to make your social media posts truly private

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Reset your digital life by deleting all your social media accounts

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Use these settings to share photos at their best quality

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The simplest way to post to all your social media accounts at once

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It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

Twitter’s new policy aims to protect private individuals in photos

By Colleen Hagerty

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8 tricks for making your Twitter feed less toxic

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Twitter’s fledgling misinformation tool is adding aliases

By Charlotte Hu

Polite warnings are surprisingly good at reducing hate speech on social media

By Charlotte Hu

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How to score Twitter’s coveted blue checkmark

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Twitter’s changing up the way you see tweets

By Colleen Hagerty

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3 ways you can try to make money from your tweets

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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You can now force someone to unfollow you on Twitter. Here’s how.

By John Kennedy

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Tips for dealing with trolls on social media

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Transform your Twitter timeline with these 11 features and add-ons

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

By Charlotte Hu

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Social media really is making us more morally outraged

By Charlotte Hu

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How to turn on dark mode for all your gadgets and apps

By Whitson Gordon, John Kennedy

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How to ignore people on social media without blocking or unfollowing them

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The world uses one emoji more than all others. Here’s why.

By Charlotte Hu

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How to block toxic comments everywhere

By Whitson Gordon

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How to keep all of your accounts safe in a world where people want your data

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You may actually qualify to use Twitter’s Clubhouse competitor now

By Stan Horaczek

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Twitter is about to take a big step toward a password-free future

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All the best ways to stream the Biden Inauguration

By Stan Horaczek

How to banish toxic posts from your social feeds

By Whitson Gordon

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5 ways to go back in time on the internet

How to make your Twitter account more secure in an age of hacks

By Stan Horaczek

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How Trump’s executive order targeting social media may affect you

By Stan Horaczek

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How to download your data from Twitter and other sites

By Stan Horaczek

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Get to know the safety features on Uber, Tinder, and other popular apps

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Making new online accounts is the ultimate privacy power play

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Your internet year in review: See how you spent time online in 2018

By Stan Horaczek

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Not all Twitter bots are bad

By Eleanor Cummins

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Twitter will let you see your feed in chronological order again—here’s how and why

By Stan Horaczek

Here’s what we learned from today’s Congressional committee meetings on social media

Here’s what we learned from today’s Congressional committee meetings on social media

By Stan Horaczek

What to do if you see fake news on Facebook

What to do if you see fake news on Facebook

How to erase your embarrassing old Facebook and Twitter posts

How to erase your embarrassing old Facebook and Twitter posts

By Whitson Gordon

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Our brains love spreading lies all over the internet

By Rachel Feltman

Twitter is killing its terrible Mac app. Here are your options for replacing it.

By Stan Horaczek

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Watch Bill Nye respond to anti-science tweets

By Jason Lederman

The scientific community is mobilizing to save research hit by Harvey

By Nicole Wetsman

Now’s your chance to get NASA to send your tweet into interstellar space

By Rachel Feltman

AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter

AI and deep learning can now help you be more popular on Twitter

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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#DoesItFart is the burning science question you never knew you had

By Sara Chodosh

FBI Now Investigating Its Own Bad Tweets

FBI Now Investigating Its Own Bad Tweets

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Chevy Will Give You Free Gas, But Only If You’re Happy On Social Media

Chevy Will Give You Free Gas, But Only If You’re Happy On Social Media

By Michael Koziol

Minnesota Governor meets with girlfriend of man killed in police shooting

How Livestreaming Video Could Change The Face Of Justice

By PopSci Editors

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Here’s How The World Reacted To Juno’s Jupiter Arrival

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Proposed “Rationalia” Government Won’t Work

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Proposed “Rationalia” Government Won’t Work

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Elon Musk Reveals His Favorite Animal

Elon Musk Reveals His Favorite Animal

By Samantha Cole

Mark Zuckerberg: Within Five Years, Facebook Will Be Mostly Video

Mark Zuckerberg: Within Five Years, Facebook Will Be Mostly Video

By Jason Lederman

Tay is a millennial A.I. chatbot.

Here’s How We Prevent The Next Racist Chatbot

By Dave Gershgorn