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Shares of Twitter Inc. TWTR, -4.18% shed 4.18% to $68.69 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.24% rising 0.24% to 4,422.30 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.24% rising 0.24% to 35,144.31. The stock's fall snapped a four-day winning streak. Twitter Inc. closed $12.06 short of its 52-week high ($80.75), which the company achieved on February 25th. The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Monday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.21% fell 0.21% to $289.05, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, +0.77% rose 0.77% to $2,680.70, and Facebook Inc. Cl A FB, +0.72% rose 0.72% to $372.46. Trading volume (29.1 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 13.9 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.

New York Daily News | Jul 26, 2021 at 5:22 PM The city’s top health official accused Facebook and Twitter on Monday of stifling local vaccination efforts by facilitating “dangerous” coronavirus misinformation on their platforms at a time when COVID-19 infections are back on the rise in New York. Dr. David Chokshi, Mayor de Blasio’s Health Department commissioner, aimed the broadside in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who faced criticism from the White House over the same issue last week. “Your failure to effectively stop the spread of this dangerous information on your platforms and vigorously enforce your own policies targeting misinformation is a threat to the public health of New York City residents and a serious impediment to our efforts to vaccinate all New York City residents,” Chokshi wrote to Zuckerberg and Dorsey. “In short, the spread of misinformation is costing New Yorkers their lives.” An iPhone displays the Facebook app. (Jenny Kane/AP) More than 40% of the city’s population remains unvaccinated, according to Health Department data. According to polling, a significant chunk of unvaccinated Americans aren’t getting inoculated due to concerns about the safety of the shots — a baseless belief…

Jamaican gymnast competes for 11 seconds, fulfills the dream of a lifetime Danusia Francis spent about 11 seconds on the uneven bars during the first day of gymnastic competition at the Tokyo Games on Sunday. It was the time of her life. Tokyo Olympics Watch all the action from the Tokyo Olympics live on NBC Francis, who competed as a gymnast at UCLA, is representing Jamaica in Tokyo. But at some point during training, she badly injured her left knee, which she announced on Instagram in a post following podium training last week. “The arena is stunning,” she posted. “Unfortunately, I do have a knee injury so only did bars today, but happy with my performance & enjoyed myself out there!” View social media post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRoGwn6NgsE On Sunday, however, Francis performed several simple maneuvers on the lower of the two bars before gently dismounting on her right leg. Her left knee was heavily wrapped. View social media post: https://twitter.com/jaflygirl/status/1419302047363514373 Francis was all smiles, however, waiving to cheers and touching the world with her positivity and inspiration that lit up social media. Her alma mater UCLA gave her a shout out on Twitter: “Congratulations, Nush! We are so proud of you,…

A business premises ablaze during widespread looting and protests in Durban, 12 July 2021. (Photo: EPA-EFE / STR) In less than a month, 12 Twitter accounts became central to the instigation that caused mayhem and destruction as they spearheaded the call to release Jacob Zuma from prison. The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) is a non-profit organisation that was formed in 2017 to act in the public interest. The CABC is incubated at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The team is drawn from various organisations including the GSB, the Alan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, the Citizen Research and Dialogue Centres and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The team covers a wide range of skills, including academia, technology, research analytics, dialogue facilitation, conflict mediation, communication, and advertising. Accounts belonging to the RET forces network have been discovered in the top 12 accounts responsible for inciting violence on social media during the recent unrest in South Africa — initiated by calls for former president Jacob Zuma to be released from prison. The top 12 accounts — four of which belong to the RET forces network — repeatedly retweeted hashtags intended…

It’s troubling when a divergence shows up between the good earnings news and how the price of the stock reacts to it. This is especially true when it comes to a big name, big tech company sporting a high price-earnings ratio and whose CEO shows up at Bitcoin conferences. The trend has been for these types of equities to join the 2. That is, decent earnings reports lately tends to equal an even higher stock price than before. Facebook and Apple are examples. When this doesn’t happen, an analyst doing the homework begins to wonder why. That’s the situation with Twitter right now, a company with many enthusiastic supporters among the “just look at these earnings!” crowd. Okay, now I’ve looked at them — why aren’t more buyers showing up here? If things are so good, why are sellers coming in earlier than they used to? In the current bull market environment, typically one should follow the other for a solid bullish kind of look to continue. The daily price chart for Twitter shows the price high failure: Twitter daily price chart, 7 24 21 stockcharts.com You can see where the price peaked several months ago and then sold off…

It's not just the way he lives his truth that's important. It's the way he broadcasts it. Lil Nas X could've just released his new video and peaced out. Instead, the "Montero" and "Old Town Road" superstar is staring down his haters on Twitter. He hasn't exactly shied away from engaging on social media since he first blew up in 2019, of course. But as the 22-year-old star has settled into the celebrity's life, he's found a growing number of ways to wield his fame against those who would rather see a gay, Black rapper like him fail. Now, as the new "Industry Baby" video makes the rounds, Lil Nas X is swinging back in a way that provides us all with a more textured understanding of his latest work.The new video, which is the latest track to be released off the forthcoming album Montero, is a trip through the fictional Montero State Prison. Its Shawshank Redemption-inspired journey casts the rapper in the starring role as he raps out verses speaking to his success, his sexuality, and the people who have doubted his rise all the way through. The video, like the one for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name),"…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: TAL Education Corp., down $14.52 to $6. U.S.-listed shares of Chinese for-profit education companies sank on fears of a regulatory clampdown by Beijing. Boston Beer Co., down $246.54 to $701. The brewer of Samuel Adams beer reported weaker-than-expected results, saying it overestimated demand for hard seltzer. Intel Corp., down $2.96 to $53. The chipmaker reported solid second-quarter financial results but also said supply chain problems would likely persist. Twitter Inc., up $2.12 to $71.69. The social media company handily beat Wall Street's second-quarter financial forecasts on growing advertising demand. Snap Inc., up $15 to $77.97. The parent company of Snapchat reported results that were much better than Wall Street was expecting. Skechers U.S.A. Inc., up $3.01 to $54.22. The shoe company reported strong second-quarter financial results and gave investors an encouraging profit forecast. American Express Co., up $2.28 to $173.18. The credit card issuer reported strong second-quarter profit and revenue as consumer spending increased. Kimberly-Clark Corp., up 71 cents to $135.66. The maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissue reported disappointing second-quarter financial results.

No matter what Olympic year it is, fans have a general idea of what Team USA’s athletes will wear to the Opening Ceremony because since 2008, Ralph Lauren has been outfitting them. And those outfits generally look the same. Covered in red, white and blue, American athletes don preppy, New England-looking styles that often look repetitive and stiff, especially when compared with the unbridled enthusiasm of the people wearing them. At Friday’s Opening Ceremony — which officially kicked off the Games, even though some sports began playing this week — Team USA’s look included jeans, navy blue blazers, blue-and-white striped shirts and ascots. And let’s just say a lot of people weren’t huge fans of the look. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Olympics fans on Twitter didn’t hold back and roasted Team USA’s look this year, as well as those of previous Games. society if America stop letting Ralph Lauren embarrass us every Olympics pic.twitter.com/eOk9FjHF1u — Astead (@AsteadWesley) July 23, 2021 Why is Ralph Lauren always selected to design the Team USA Olympic Opening Ceremony uniforms? Our American athletes are a diverse group, they’re not a bunch of preppy white people headed to Newport or the Hamptons. pic.twitter.com/JaTCH6tEu9 — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) July…

'You big whiner!' Twitter again takes aim at wrong Kevin McCarthy Every so often the Twitter universe comes down hard on FOX 5’s Kevin McCarthy – but for all the wrong reasons! See -- for years, online users have confused our Kevin – with House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy. WASHINGTON - Every so often the Twitter universe comes down hard on FOX 5's Kevin McCarthy – but for all the wrong reasons! See -- for years, online users have confused our Kevin – with House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy. Yesterday, when the GOP's McCarthy was in the news – our Kevin took some heat! But our guy always takes it in stride – and turns the hate into a chance to leave a movie recommendation or two! "You big whiner! America is tired if your BS," one Twitter user wrote our Kevin. "Pelosi was smart to remove the two insurrection-supporting Jim's. All they would do is try to obstruct the committee & the truth. So big raspberry to you." "Wait, is this because I like Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE?" our FOX 5's Kevin replied. TWITTER STILL CONFUSING FOX 5'S KEVIN MCCARTHY FOR HOUSE MINORITY LEADER "Kevin McCarthy TV IS CRYING," another…

I counted: 31 tweets. That’s how many I could see in my traditional TweetDeck window the other day. But at that same moment, TweetDeck’s new preview only showed me 21 tweets — 38 percent less, and that’s with the narrowest columns and the smallest font available, just to be clear. For over a decade, people have sworn by TweetDeck as the power user alternative to the original Twitter app, but what most people really mean is one specific thing: it lets you see more tweets. TweetDeck lets you see more tweets without needing to scroll. It gives you an entire dashboard of tweets you can throw up on a monitor, unattended. The power of TweetDeck is that it’s glanceable, a way to passively tap into a firehose of personal interests. That’s why it’s such a powerful tool for the world’s newsrooms, and a tool The Verge uses daily. It’s also why I can’t comprehend how Twitter could have let this new version of TweetDeck into the world, even in beta form. I’m now worried Twitter has forgotten why we use TweetDeck. Left: TweetDeck. Right: TweetDeck Preview. If you break it down, there are easily half a dozen little culprits, each…