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According to a TechCrunch report, Twitter is negotiating a possible sale of its short-form video sharing service Vine with a number of potential buyers.

The report, based on the information shared by multiple unidentified sources, comes within days of Twitter’s October 27 announcement that it is shutting down the Vine service. In announcing the death sentence for Vine, Twitter said that the three-year-old service will be shutter in the next few months.

Two bigwig social media companies Facebook and Twitter have joined with several global news organizations for the ‘First Draft’ project -- an initiative backed by Google and Google Labs -- in an evident effort to “improve” the quality of the news content they offer.

According to a Business Insider report, a hacking group called ‘Spain Squad’ managed to temporarily reactivate a number of offensive accounts which had recently been officially suspended by popular microblogging service Twitter.

Popular microblogging service Twitter has revealed in a Tuesday announcement that it has added a 'Night Mode' to its official Twitter for Android app.

The addition of the 'Night Mode' feature to Twitter's official Android app will enable users to get rid of the bright white interface which most of them do not like when they use the Twitter site at night or in the dark.

In a recent announcement, Twitter has said that it is launching a new companion app – called ‘Engage’ – to enable its users to know the people who are following their campaigns and activity on the popular microblogging platform.

In the last one week or so, a number of high-profile social-networking accounts were compromised by hackers. These recently-hacked high-profile social media accounts included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as accounts belonging to Katy Perry, and Keith Richards.

In a blog post published on Wednesday, Twitter-owned Vine entertainment platform announced the launch of a simple new button - called 'Watch' - to give users a new way to consume content on the Vine app.

Against the backdrop of a Friday report from BuzzFeed that a "brand new Twitter" is on the cards, users of popular microblogging service are awaiting possible changes to their timelines this week.

The BuzzFeed report had revealed that Twitter has plans underway to soon launch an algorithm which will result in a reordering in the way tweets show up to Twitter users on their feeds.