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The Twitter iOS client has received a bit of a makeover in version 4.2 pushed out by its creators yesterday with the purpose of updating the interface and many of the app’s core features, such as Discover.Twitter for iOS 4.2 features an updated design and improved relevance of Discover stories, and now activity... |
27 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Twitter has rolled out a new version of its dedicated iOS client fixing a bunch of issues reported by owners of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices that like to blog on the go. The Twitter iOS app is a full-fledged tool to browse your interests, find & follow friends, tweet, retweet, favorite, follow, exchange di... |
4 April 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Twitter is one of the best new additions in OS X Mountain Lion, mainly because it makes a simple task even simpler. If you’re a hardcore user of the microblogging service, you’ll love Mountain Lion when it comes out later this year. Twitter was first integrated in iOS. After seeing how quickly it gained ... |
2 April 2012
10:56 GMT |
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The folks at Twitter Inc. have rolled out a brand new version of TweetDeck coded in HTML5 which should make it a lot easier for fans to track their Twitter and Facebook activity on their Macs.Or will it? According to the reviews posted by some early adopters (as well as our own experience with the app), Twitter engin... |
9 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Twitter’s Jason Costa has confirmed two early-October developer events scheduled to go live in New York and London with a focus on integration with iOS 5.Costa begins his post with the acknowledgement that he and his team have hosted a series of events for developers in the Twitter ecosystem over the past two m... |
26 September 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Twitter has had a good relationship with the media, in a way, while some of the old guard journalists and TV people still look at it with disregard, to many it has become an indispensable tool. In either case, the media loves talking about Twitter.So Twitter is returning the favor, while also making sure everyone kno... |
28 June 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Twitter has turned five years old. Precisely five years ago, the first ever tweet was sent by the service's co-creator Jack Dorsey. Now it's a worldwide phenomenon with hundreds of millions of users and involved with events in the most diverse places of the world. Twitter is celebrating its birthday with ... |
21 March 2011
18:59 GMT |
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Twitter is celebrating its fifth birthday. Back in 2006, a small number of people got together to make a group SMS service which they dubbed TWTTR. Several days later, on March 21, the first ever tweet was sent. Since then, the service has grown at a huge rate and continues to do so.Twitter provided some interesting ... |
15 March 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Mobile phone users fond of microblogging and also interested in the newly launched Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system from Microsoft can now pair the two very easily through a Twitter for Windows Phone 7 client announced officially a few hours ago.The new mobile application comes from Twitter themselves, and ad... |
29 October 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Twitter is experiencing yet another outage. While problems at the social networking site are common, they seemed to have died down recently. Now, a bunch of users are reporting that their followed and follower counts have been reset and both display zero.Twitter has acknowledged the issue and has said that it a fix i... |
4 October 2010
11:28 GMT |
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Twitter is now asking users who have used services promising them a higher follower count to reset their passwords. Actually, it’s not merely asking, it’s forcing these users to change their existing passwords. The reason for this is that these accounts may be vulnerable to abuse since the third-party ser... |
3 August 2010
08:43 GMT |
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One of the recurrent stories of the latter half of 2009 was Twitter’s apparent slowdown in growth. The site had added a huge number of new users in spring, but the number stopped growing in the following months. This seemed to indicate that, maybe, its popularity was more based on hype than on actual usefulness... |
31 May 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Twitter is once again revamping the homepage in an effort to make it more appealing to new users and casual visitors, but also in order to better reflect what the site is all about. The new homepage will feature more dynamic content listing some of the more recent and important tweets and also a "Who's here" sec... |
31 March 2010
07:30 GMT |
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Twitter is moving slowly but surely when it comes to its business features and accounts we've been hearing so much about. Slated for introduction at the end of 2009, not much has materialized even until now. It looks like it may be moving closer to launching at least one feature aimed at businesses, Twitter Cont... |
24 March 2010
10:05 GMT |
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At one point, Twitter's growth in user numbers was only matched by the rise in spam on the microblogging service. As with the numerous fail whales, nobody liked the spam, but Twitter users have shown a great resilience to putting up with the service's various problems. Thankfully, they don't have to do... |
24 March 2010
07:37 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently testing internally a Microsoft Office Labs prototype dubbed OfficeTalk, which, according to the company, is an experiment designed to explore the impact of social networking in the Enterprise. With OfficeTalk, the Redmond company is dogfooding the equivalent of a Twitter-like service aimed at c... |
23 March 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Most people only heard about Twitter last year, and how could they not with all the media frenzy, but the microblogging service is now four years old, having celebrated its birthday yesterday, 21st of March. It started out innocuous enough, but these days Twitter has the power to change the world. Or, at least, that... |
22 March 2010
07:35 GMT |
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Twitter grew tremendously in 2009, but, much like many startups before, revenue was, and still is, an afterthought thanks to some deep-pocketed investors. Still, the question of how Twitter will monetize has lingered for years now. Up until very recently, advertising, the most common way to bring in revenue for a fre... |
24 February 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Despite some ups and downs, Twitter's future is still looking pretty good and the site is nowhere near its goal of one billion users. So, in anticipation of another flood of users, the site has been hiring like crazy, doubling the number of employees in half a year. Twitter has now reached the 140-employee mark,... |
17 February 2010
08:46 GMT |
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Open source is a global and mainstream phenomenon today after being on the fringes for quite a while. And it's not just in programming, many aspects of society have been changed, hopefully for the better, by the concepts and principles put forth by open-source software advocates. Big and traditionally very close... |
17 February 2010
07:12 GMT |
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The Internet is making it harder for dictators around the world to go about their daily business. Mass deception, control of the media, absolute power, that sort of thing. From Italy to China and, indeed, Australia, the people in power are finding it increasingly harder to control the flow of information. The poster... |
6 February 2010
07:42 GMT |
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You'd think that Mexican authorities have bigger problems on their hands than people using Twitter to report police checkpoints put up to deter drunk driving. It might also seem like regulating social networks may not be the best way of stopping kidnappings and drug trade. Then again, doing something that could ... |
4 February 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Twitter has been focusing on the site lately a bit more than usual. The API still gets the lion's share of attention, but a couple of new and rather big features have been popping up Twitter.com for the past few months. The latest one isn't exactly a game-changer, but it's a welcome addition. Twitter,... |
4 February 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Here comes another Twitter usage study painting a grim picture for the microblogging service. While all indirect measurements have a certain degree of uncertainty, in lieu of actual data coming from Twitter, which is not likely to happen any time soon by the looks of things, these will have to do. The research, from ... |
27 January 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Twitter has made it official, the new Local Trends feature is now available for everyone. It enables users to set their location and see the trending topics from their country or city. For now, the feature has a rather limited location selection, but Twitter says it's working on expanding it. When the feature m... |
27 January 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Twitter has finally gotten around to revamping the much talked-about Suggested Users List. Until now, new Twitter users were presented with a list of 20 users from a pool of accounts picked by Twitter staff. Whoever got on the list saw a huge uptake in followers, but there were talks about the relevance and the fair... |
22 January 2010
06:18 GMT |
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It has been one great year for Twitter with the service seeing huge growth, especially in the first half of the year. It rose from a microblogging service used by the hip, tech-savvy crowd to one used by millions of regular people, as well as the latest trend for celebrities and companies. Lately though, it looks li... |
29 December 2009
09:13 GMT |
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The outlook is looking moderately optimistic for Twitter on the revenue front, but things aren't going so great when it comes to traffic, at least for the main site. While in the US Twitter had flatlined for months now and even saw a dip in October, internationally it was still going strong. This isn't the... |
23 December 2009
04:56 GMT |
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True to its previous statements, Twitter is starting to roll out the professional features it's been touting for a while now. At the moment, it's just a small feature which enables businesses to have multiple contributors to the Twitter account. These will be able to do all the things the administrator of ... |
15 December 2009
05:28 GMT |
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With Twitter getting back in shape in the past few weeks, even though visitor numbers are still down, it's time to play one of Silicon Valley's most popular games again. No, it's not 'how is Twitter going to make money' but 'when will Twitter be sold'. In the past, there have been ... |
24 November 2009
06:27 GMT |
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People in the tech industry love speculating about two things, what Facebook is really worth and how Twitter will make money. The jury is still out on the first one but Twitter is adding more fuel to the fire by changing its tune and now saying that ads are in fact coming to the site. To add to the hype, Twitter isn&... |
21 November 2009
04:54 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 owes much of its popularity to the ecosystem of third-party apps and services that has sprung up around it. In fact, a big chunk of Twitter's userbase doesn't visit the site itself, but connects to the service via third-party desktop or mobile clients. On the desktop front, two players are battling ... |
18 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Twitter is a great tool for public relations and many companies, celebrities, and public figures have realized this early on. And like any great PR opportunity, you're going to want to let the professionals handle it. US president Barack Obama can credit his win at least partially on making good use of online t... |
16 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Mint is becoming more and more popular, especially in the US. The personal finance service is going from strength to strength even after being acquired by Intuit. Besides the proper site, Mint also hosts an interesting blog, which is more than just a tool to get its message to users, it's an actual resource for... |
13 November 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Barely out the door, the latest feature Twitter decided to bless its users with, retweets, has now been disabled by the microblogging site after several issues creeped up during the wider roll-out. The feature has been M.I.A. for more than half a day and it doesn't look like it's back up at this point. The... |
12 November 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately with a big new feature, Lists, and several partnerships with companies like Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. But it's not stopping now, the microblogging service has just launched the long-awaited retweet feature to a bigger number of users and should see a complete roll out so... |
11 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately launching new features on a rate rarely seen in the past year or so. It just launched a major feature, Lists, which is already proving very popular and is changing the way many are using the service. Now, it's ready to launch a brand-new one, first announced in August, which may... |
6 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Twitter is finally going international and is now announcing that the service is available in Spanish, the first step towards the introduction of several new languages. The translation effort mirrors that of Facebook, as it uses volunteers to provide translations to all of the pages and features on Twitter. The move ... |
4 November 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Twitter is finally rolling out the Lists feature to everybody and the site is abuzz with the news. This time though, it's for good reason, as the feature could prove one of the biggest improvements Twitter has seen at least since it hit the mainstream. Lists is still in beta and there have been some hiccups with... |
30 October 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter cofounder and CEO Evan Williams answered some questions about the service ranging from the perennial business model ones to more tricky issues like the growth slowdown in the US for the past few months. While he did recognize several problems, he was optimistic... |
21 October 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Twitter is working on several features at the time, which have been eagerly awaited by most users. The features are still in beta and made public in limited tests but it now looks like the company has expanded the test for the Lists feature somehow. The feature was revealed a couple of weeks ago and could prove very ... |
16 October 2009
04:22 GMT |
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While Twitter may have lost some of its luster, news about the microblogging service is still getting people exited, even if it's not exactly accurate. Over the weekend the news of a new video feature to be introduced by Twitter, despite lacking in details and most people being skeptical about it, made a few rou... |
12 October 2009
03:15 GMT |
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Twitter moves at its own pace when it comes to introducing features but every so often it launches something new to the delight of the masses. New, of course, is a relative term as a new feature has probably been implemented by a third party already but everybody loves Twitter so no one is holding it against it. Now ... |
1 October 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Several reports came in yesterday claiming the popular microblogging service Twitter was about to receive a massive amount of money in a new round of funding. The transaction has now been confirmed by Twitter's cofounder Biz Stone himself acting as usual as the company's public voice. The sum was speculated... |
26 September 2009
05:02 GMT |
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With the huge influx of users and attention, Twitter is also attracting the “wrong crowd” to its service and spam and all manners of unwanted messages. Twitter has been taking some steps in that direction and now it's also updating its Terms of Service to help fight them, while also touching up on ot... |
11 September 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Somehow the issue of whether teenagers do or do not tweet is of great importance to humanity and merits a significant number of studies and researches. Not one to miss out on an opportunity like this, comScore has decided, like others before it, it can provide people with some final and definitive answers and put eve... |
8 September 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Yahoo has had a spotty history when it comes to the social networking type of services. Let's be honest, it has a very bad history, actually, having closed many of its ventures in the sector, something that continues even today. Still, it's not giving up and it's building up steam and support for the l... |
2 September 2009
05:46 GMT |
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NTT America, the US subsidiary of Japan's partly state owned NTT Communications Corporation, the largest telco in Asia and the second largest in the world, has announced it is expanding its data center capacity with a new location in Santa Clara, California in response to “rapidly growing customer demand.... |
1 September 2009
05:35 GMT |
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For some reason TV and Twitter seem to go together. With several TV shows in the works based on the microblogging site and even some of the well established ones like the Today Show introducing some Twitter elements it looks like TV can't get enough of it. And now Fox is taking it one step further with the intro... |
31 August 2009
10:00 GMT |
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