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Tonight's Saturday Night Live will be livestreamed internationally via YouTube in more than 100 countries,  including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The livestream is a first for the long-running sketch comedy revue. SNL airs on NBC at 11:30 PM…

Twitter has adjusted its photo-cropping approach, a change it says will deliver “bigger and better images” to mobile users on Android and iOS. Images with 2:1 and 3:4 aspect ratios will now be displayed in full, rather than in truncated form. The goal is to improve engagement as people scroll through their feeds. As…

Twitter and Billboard are partnering to create The Billboard Hot Trending, a real-time Billboard Chart powered by the social media giant to showcase the songs being talked about most on the platform and tracking music trends. The chart, which will refresh every 24 hours, will measure the music conversations dominating…

Elon Musk, already under fire from multiple directions for his upcoming SNL hosting appearance, is reaching out to the wisdom of the crowd. Musk asked Twitter to pitch some SNL sketches for him as he gets ready for an already controversial hosting gig on May 8. The call for concepts from Musk follows reports that…

Twitter’s monetizable daily active users hit 199 million in the March quarter, shy of the 200 million Wall Street anticipated but up by seven million from year-end 2000 and significantly higher than the 166 million in the year ago period. Revenue of $1.04 billion, up 28% from $808 million the year prior, also fell…

Social media users were sent into apoplexy Friday, as social media tool Twitter was briefly out of service. The outage started at around 5 PM Pacific time, but was restored in a half-hour. But that was enough time for about 5,000 complaints to show up at the downdetector.com website. The outage marks the second time…

The Supreme Court on Monday directed a lower court to toss out a lawsuit over whether Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked followers from his then-active Twitter account. Lower court rulings had found that such actions violated the First Amendment, but the justices found the case moot, as Trump is…

UPDATED: Lawmakers for a key House committee united Thursday in a bipartisan attack on the nation’s three biggest social media platforms and threatened their CEOs with all kinds of oversight. Peter Welch (D-VT) of the House Energy and Finance Committee discussed creating a public agency like the FCC or FTC with…

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out his most specific set of remedies yet for how the government should modify Section 230, a decades-old rule that gives Internet platforms like his sweeping legal immunity from all posted content. In prepared testimony ahead of an appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday…

Jack Dorsey's other company – Square – announced Thursday it's buying a majority stake in Jay-Z's streaming music platform Tidal for $297 million in cash and stock. Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter will join the board of directors of publicly-traded Square, a financial services and payments company. Square said it’s taking a…

UPDATED with details from presentation: Twitter unveiled a new feature it's working on called Super Follows that will let users charge followers. It’s a way to help creators and publishers monetize their participation on the platform, and to help Twitter develop a dual revenue stream with a kind of subscription model…

Parler, the conservative social media platform that went dark last month, said it's back in business — or will be soon — with a new interim CEO, former Tea Party activist Mark Meckler, according to contradictory press reports. The previous CEO, Jim Matze, was fired January 29 by the site that he founded with backing…