An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled.

It looks like Twitter isn't the only one having to turn to rate limits -- or limits on how many posts users can view and other in-app activities. In an amusing turn of events, Twitter's latest rival, ...

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday announced that it is testing a “Not A Bot” program that charges new, unverified users $1 per year to post and interact with content on X.

Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, new research released Wednesday claimed. California-based Marshal8e6 deliberately infected machines in the lab of its ...

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

Facebook’s fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have found after an ...

May 13 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk on Friday put on hold his $44 billion-takeover plan for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), opens new tab, as he waited for details on the microblogging platform's claim ...

Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams shortly after its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, claims that the social media giant has persisting bot and security problems.