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Twitter has started enabling users to upload photos to the site directly, bypassing any third-parties. The site recently rolled out the feature to everyone and is now opening it up to third-party developers as well. The company also reiterated its desire to incorporate support for the functionality in its mobile apps... |
16 August 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Twitter is finally showing the third-party developers working with its platform some love. Not that it seemed to matter too much, Twitter's own numbers show that there are now one million registered applications using the Twitter APIs.That's up from 150,000 last year, so the tensions between the community a... |
12 July 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Twitter is debuting a Follow button with an obvious use. The new button enables users to start following an account they like from any website, without having to visit Twitter. Most websites today offer a way of following them on Twitter, but it usually requires the user to visit the site and click on the follow butt... |
1 June 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it will start rolling out new email notification features which enable users to keep track of retweets and favorite tweets. The features themselves aren't a huge deal, but they do offer useful functionality for some users. It's also a sign of how Twitter is continuing to build up ... |
24 May 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Twitter is making some changes to what type of data third-party apps can access and how users can authenticate through them. These changes ensure that Twitter apps can only access direct messages with the explicit consent of the user, but they also degrade the user experience with native third-party apps."Beginning t... |
19 May 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Twitter is putting its foot down when it comes to third-party apps in the ecosystem. What began almost a year ago, when Twitter aggressively started to create its own Twitter clients for various platforms, an updated terms of service for developers basically shuts down all opportunity for third-parties to create clie... |
12 March 2011
05:46 GMT |
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Twitter has revealed that it had been rolling out a new search infrastructure for the past weeks. The transition is now over and Twitter says that the new backend scales a lot better, is significantly faster and comes with a few enhancements for the users as well. "If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn&... |
7 October 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Twitter is now ready to expand its revenue-generation efforts and is unveiling its third advertising product from the "promoted" line, Promoted Accounts. The new ad product will enable advertisers to maximize the exposure of their accounts by having them suggested to users as part of the "Who to Follow" feature. "Whe... |
5 October 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Twitter is moving forward with plans to reveal a new Streaming API. The API has been announced at the Twitter Chirp conference and the company has been testing it ever since. Now it has started testing it in the wild, partnering with the developers of TweetDeck and Echofon. The Streaming API enables apps to get a con... |
29 July 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Twitter has seen a healthy amount of growth, especially last year, but it is adding new users at a steady pace even now. A big part of its success is due to the third-party services that have grown around it, built on the Twitter API. Twitter’s popularity hasn’t translated into too much revenue just yet, ... |
24 May 2010
12:02 GMT |
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Twitter is ready to make the permanent switch to the next-generation authentication system it’s been developing along with others in the industry. The microblogging service has announced that it will drop support for basic authentication from the Twitter API, opting instead for OAuth, which provides a simpler a... |
26 April 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Depending on how you look at it, Twitter couldn’t have picked a better or a worse time to anger its developers. With less than a week until its first developer conference, Chirp, it launched its own official BlackBerry app and acquired the makers of the most popular iPhone app, Tweetie. Effectively, Twitter wou... |
15 April 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Yahoo has been aggregating updates from a big variety of websites for several months now. Users could see in one place updates from Twitter, YouTube or Last.fm and also post new ones with Yahoo Update. The feature is interesting enough and has been popping up in more and more places across Yahoo properties. But Yahoo... |
13 April 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Twitter made some quite big moves over the weekend and managed to set its developer community ablaze in the process. It launched its own Blackberry app and, much more importantly, it bought the company behind Tweetie, one of the most popular Twitter client apps for the iPhone. Twitter says it will launch a Tweetie ve... |
12 April 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Twitter has made the big announcement anticipated for several months now, it has opened, or rather, extended access to its data 'firehose,' but only to seven startups for now. Twitter revealed that it would open up its firehose API to more partners a couple of months ago. Until now, it has partnered with Go... |
2 March 2010
05:11 GMT |
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When it comes to Twitter, all it takes is a tweet to send everyone wild with speculation and 'analyses.' The latest example is a tweet from Twitter engineer Alex Payne, which would indicate that Twitter.com might be getting some features that would make it more competitive with third-party Twitter clients. ... |
1 March 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Twitter heavy users rejoice, one of the most popular desktop Twitter clients, TweetDeck, has been updated to version 0.33. It's a pretty big update with a number of new features but also updates under the hood. One of the most visible changes is the new Column Navigator which serves as a quick way of moving bet... |
9 February 2010
08:43 GMT |
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Everyone is becoming more and more interested in geolocation and for good reason. Besides the hype that surrounds most new technologies, geolocation has a lot of applications and is set to transform the way we use the web in a profound manner. Twitter, which is getting its fair share of hype on its own, is betting b... |
28 December 2009
04:19 GMT |
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There have been a couple of new developments in the past week regarding the Twitter API and, surprisingly, they don't really have anything to do with Twitter at all. Rather they have to do with 'old school' blogging platforms WordPress and Tumblr adopting the Twitter API as their own. What this means ... |
19 December 2009
06:27 GMT |
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The Le Web conference is now underway in Paris and hot Internet companies as well as startups are vying for the media's attention. Twitter though doesn't really need to try to hard to get headlines but it still had several big announcements to make geared especially towards developers who use the platform.... |
9 December 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Twitter is pushing ahead on two fronts with just one move. The company is now launching a new Sign-Up API which allows users to sign up for the service from any third party site or app which implements it. For now, the API isn't public but has already been implemented by online local guide Citysearch. This last... |
7 December 2009
06:20 GMT |
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Twitter is a great service and its creators want to keep it that way. Not the 'great' part, presumably they want this as well, but the 'service' part. It always catered to third-party developers and avoided adding too much features to the basic product. This has changed slightly recently, but Twi... |
4 December 2009
07:11 GMT |
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Location services are becoming increasingly popular and, with the right devices and tools to take advantage of, they're also becoming more useful. Twitter has been working on location features for a couple of months now and the microblogging service has finally enabled them, but for now, only for third-party de... |
20 November 2009
07:20 GMT |
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Twitter has now officially launched and announced one of its most eagerly awaited features, Twitter Lists. The feature has been in beta for a while now and it has been rolled out to all users during the past couple of days allowing them to group the people they follow and to easily share them with their friends. &ldq... |
31 October 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Location-based services are one of the newer web trends, along with the real-time web, but, while real time gets more hype, location may actually prove to be more important and practical in the long term. With the spread of mobile devices, phones, netbooks, laptops, the works, location is becoming increasingly import... |
2 October 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Location-aware services are starting to gather steam. Thanks to a number of things coming together, GPS-enabled mobile devices, web browsers with geolocation and an increasingly mobile Internet population, everything is set for this type of services to take off. But few of the existing ones have the size or the popul... |
21 August 2009
02:50 GMT |
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This may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending how you look at it, but some of Twitter's most used and loved features, even the most basic ones, came from the community not the development team, and it usually takes a while before official support comes in. Retweets have been used on a large scale for months... |
14 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Respected security researcher Aviv Raff warns of a new type of web vulnerability, which he dubs "Cross-Web2.0 Scripting." According to him, a perfectly secure website can become insecure if a third-party web service using its API is vulnerable. Much of the website interconnection and real-time information exchange t... |
27 May 2009
09:22 GMT |
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