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Twitter has sued the US government in a lawsuit on Thursday after it received a request from US officials to to reveal people behind an anti-Trump Twitter account. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco, where Twitter is based.

The anonymous account was set up after President Trump's inauguration, tweeting news happening inside the White house. The account leaked how dozens of US government agencies opposed to the Trump's administration on climate change amidst other issues.

               

According to Twitter, the  account, @ALT_uscisis known to "express public criticism of the department and the current administration," and it's in lawsuit also added byTwitter, 

"may not compel Twitter to disclose information regarding the real identities of these users without first demonstrating that some criminal or civil offense has been committed, that unmasking the users' identity is the least restrictive means for investigating that offense, that the demand for this information is not motivated by a desire to suppress free speech, and that the interests of pursuing that investigation outweigh the important First Amendment rights of Twitter and its users."

Twitter users are also protected by the first amendment right, and in his lawsuit, Twitter wrote;

The rights of free speech afforded Twitter's users and Twitter itself under the First Amendment of the US Constitution include a right to disseminate such anonymous or pseudonymous political speech.

See Twitter lawusit against the US government.

 

The micro-blogging social network, Twitter have officially removed the 140 character limit on direct messages (DM's). This removal will allow for user to send unlimited amount of messages one time, instead of the 140 character the website was known to do.

              

Announcing the new change, the site says, 

While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter

The changes is also being rolled out for for Twitter for iOS and Android, TweetDeck and Twitter for Mac as well as Twitter.com. Though Twitter users who still uses text messages to send their DM's will have this limit, as this is their network configuration, rather than Twitter itself.

Also Twitter confirmed that this will be only on the DMs, and nothing will change about the public tweets 140 characters, since it is the selling point of the service.

Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today, rich with commentary as well as photos, videos, links, Vines, gifs, and emoji,” the company wrote in its post announcing the change. “So, start working on those sonnets.

A new trend on twitter shows that facebook, the biggest social networking website went down for 15mins. The shutdown came as a surprise when more than 1.3 billion people could not access the social networking site.

People trying to log in to the website were faced with :

     Something went wrong. We're working to get it fixed as soon as we can.

Users have switched to Twitter and started a new trend : #facebookdown

No official statement is been released from fcebook at the moment.

Some tweets by users on Twitter

 

 

Did you noticed the shut down?

 Did you make new friends outside your home when it was down?

Twitter is one of the social networks with a lot of tweets every second. But have you ever wonder what was your first tweet or what was the first tweet that was sent out by your friends? Now twitter made it possible with one of its subdomain.

All you have to do, copy your user name, and it will tell you the first tweet you sent to your followers, go ahead and try it out today.

                  

First tweet of President Barack Obama