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Apple’s iPhone press event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time, TechCrunch has confirmed. This news backs up  an earlier report  from last month, which claimed Apple would expand the ability to watch the event to Twitter’s platform, instead of only through Safari and Apple TV or Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, as in the past. Many had been  speculating  the event would live stream on Twitter, due to the wording Apple is using in its latest Promoted Tweet about the event. The tweet asks users to sign up for “updates” on event day and follow the action on Twitter via the #AppleEvent hashtag. While Apple has  run Twitter ads before,  including to those that  remind users to tune in and watch , the tweet’s wording this time had hinted that the action may be live streamed on Twitter. Instead of saying “follow” the event on Twitter, the tweet says “… watch  the #AppleEvent live on Twitter.” (Emphasis ours). “Watch” implies a l...

Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so. In a series of tweets on Thursday, the company said it had “permanently suspended” accounts associated with Jones and Infowars after numerous complaints that they violated its terms of service prohibiting repeated abusive behavior. A Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Beast specifically that an Infowars video posted on Twitter of Alex Jones berating CNN reporter Oliver Darcy on Wednesday was the final violation of the company’s terms. “Those are the eyes of a rat,” Jones told Darcy to his face in a live video, where he accused Darcy and CNN of trying police internet content. “Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” Twitter said in the first of a series of Thursday tweets. “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to ...