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In what may well be the biggest update to any Twitter client ever released, Tapbots has launched Tweetbot 2.4, a much improved version of the popular Twitter application for iPhone and iPad. “Tweetbot is a full-featured iPad Twitter client with a lot of personality,” according to Tapbots, the makers of th... |
25 May 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Twitter is continuing its expansion into the media world. More than just about any other social network, Twitter has struck a chord with old school media, TV, movies and sports. Celebrities and sports personalities alike enjoy huge followings on Twitter and most users want to feel connected and closer to these people... |
19 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Tweet2Download is a WordPress plugin that can be used to block a visitor from accessing a file or site section. To gain access to the blocked content, the user will have to tweet about the site.
Even if installing it might seem a little bit lengthy, the plugin requiring a Twitter consumer key and secret code, it wil... |
10 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Twitter is always tweaking its UI and, especially since the new, new Twitter was introduced only a short while ago, its designers and UX experts are still ironing out the kinks. The latest change is small, but it's an obvious one.Hovering over a tweet in the stream at the site will now reveal the standard set of... |
5 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Twitter is the epitome of the fast-paced world we live in, tweets are at most 140 characters long and they come in fast and often, so they're often quite disposable. Some of these tweets may be worth reading in peace though, in the one place you may have time to enjoy them, if you haven't brought your phone... |
29 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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As expected, Twitter has updated TweetDeck to add some of the recent features introduced with the "new new Twitter." The new TweetDeck also comes with a couple of features that have been missing for a while now. One thing that's been a long time coming is List Management. While lists have been a fixture of Twit... |
22 March 2012
14:55 GMT |
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Twitter has started rolling out mobile ads more widely, like it promised it would. The company has already been testing the feature for the past few weeks but it only showed promoted tweets in the timeline for users already following the brands being advertised.Now, it's expanding that test to users that share t... |
20 March 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Tweetbot, arguably the best Twitter client out there, has been promoted to version 2.1 to support the new iPad’s Retina display and to add a cool feature called “streaming” which updates your Twitter feed in a much more natural way.
Developed by the people at Tapbots, Tweetbot 2.1 now has Retina gr... |
14 March 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Tapbots have released an iPad client for Tweetbot fans and they’ve also updated the iPhone app with a new timeline view, image thumbnails, single-tappable colored links, and more.
A full-featured Twitter client “with a lot of personality,” Tweetbot features a nicely crafted interface, sounds, anima... |
10 February 2012
07:55 GMT |
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SOPA was definitely in the spotlight yesterday thanks to the large number of websites that protested against it, starting with Google and Wikipedia. The aim of the move was to spur action and to have people contact their elected representatives, sign petitions and generally have their voices heard.And what better pla... |
19 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Twitter, in all of its forms, is undergoing a massive revamp. A new design has been molded for the site, the mobile version, the mobile apps and even TweetDeck.The big theme with this new design is unification, the sites and even the mobile apps look very similar and have many common elements.The only one standing ou... |
17 December 2011
10:21 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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As in every year, Twitter has seen more activity and more use than ever. A simple way of judging that is via the amount of tweets around a particular event. Twitter users have been breaking records every few months or so. New Year in Japan set an all time record, as users flocked to greet the new year.Since then thou... |
6 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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People like dates that have a certain symmetry or 'roundness' about them. And November 11, 2011 (11.11.11) was a great example of this, one that a lot of people noticed.While the date itself held little significance, the fact that very few of us alive today would get a change to see it again made it more sp... |
15 November 2011
09:21 GMT |
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A welcomed feature after all these years, you can now link your Twitter account with your Facebook profile, enabling you to post your Facebook entries to Twitter directly from the site.Just to make the distinction, Facebook has enabled companies, brands and artists that have set up Facebook Pages to post to Twitter a... |
7 November 2011
08:51 GMT |
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There are plenty of people who'd tell you not to take Twitter too seriously, or that they don't take Twitter too seriously, until they do. And they lay out a $500,000, €363,000 fine just to show how serious they are.NBA team Miami Heat owner Micky Arison was the one that got the fine, from the higher u... |
2 November 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Twitter has debuted a new site, Twitter Stories, which aims to highlight some of the most interesting or heartwarming things that happened on or via the site. There are some quite interesting stories in there, usually rather short, perhaps to keep in tune with the nature of Twitter.For now, there are just under 20 of... |
2 November 2011
04:52 GMT |
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was on stage for an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit where he shared some new stats about the company and reiterated Twitter's focus on simplicity and its strategy going forward.He confirmed Twitter's $8 billion, EUR5.72 billion valuation, that had been rumored when the company raise... |
18 October 2011
04:30 GMT |
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Twitter usage records are not exactly anything new, the site is still growing so this kind of things will happen over and over again. Still, it's worth mentioning the events that drive Twitter users into a frenzy.
So far, natural disasters, sporting events, the New Year and anything related to Japan have crea... |
30 August 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Although it came from an unofficial channel, a Hulu employee recently claimed that advertisements might soon be dropped and subscription fee will be increased.This was mentioned on the Hulu Support Twitter account, and the message in question reads: “We’re currently an ad-supported service but looking in... |
31 July 2011
14:11 GMT |
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An updated version of Twitter for Mac is now available with a hefty bag of changes, including a brand new look, returning popular functions, all new features like the ability to clone windows, and plenty more.“Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and ... |
12 May 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Techmeme, a popular aggregator and discovery tool for technology news, has made a big change and will now be including tweets as main headlines or as part of the discussion. Techmeme is a great way of getting an overview of the hottest stories of the moment, but the focus has been on blog posts, news articles or slig... |
20 January 2011
15:08 GMT |
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Twitter is continuing its 2010 review with a couple of charts to summarize the year for the site. The top 10 most powerful tweets, according to Twitter, have now been revealed and there's some pretty interesting, though predictable, stuff in there. Twitter also revealed the top 10 most retweeted tweets or the ye... |
15 December 2010
11:56 GMT |
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Twitter has updated its official logo and guidelines for developers, bloggers and anyone else using Twitter graphics or terminology. While this mostly applies to those using Twitter resources in commercial applications, the site has a few dos and don'ts even for those just wanting to add a "Follow me on Twitter"... |
30 October 2010
05:22 GMT |
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Twitter will start offering a real-time analytics tool to its users which will start testing later this year. The tool will highlight viral tweets, influential users and other trends in real-time. The feature will apparently be offered for free. Web analytics company WebTrends reported that Twitter's business de... |
23 September 2010
12:03 GMT |
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Twitter for iPad has just launched, bringing some nifty Multi-Touch functionality, and a multi-pane view allowing users to quickly preview incoming tweets that include audio and video, in addition to text.Developed by Twitter, Inc., the iOS application bearing the same name is a client for users of Apple’s mobi... |
2 September 2010
09:10 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately, smashing record after record. Most had to do with user activity, people are tweeting more than ever and it hit fever pitch during the World Cup. All those thousands of tweets per seconds kept adding up and Twitter has now surpassed another major milestone, 20 billion tweets have bee... |
2 August 2010
03:51 GMT |
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Twitter has launched its embeddable tweet feature that lets you incorporate individual tweets on your site or blog in all their glory. Actually, its creator doesn’t want you to call it a feature, and for good reason, it’s not some official tool coming from Twitter, it’s a relatively simple script cr... |
5 May 2010
04:01 GMT |
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There’s a lot of activity on Twitter and, though it’s certainly public and easily accessible, most of the times, the tweets themselves tend to be rather isolated from the rest of the web. Sure, the Twitter API is one of the best out there, but it’s not just the information that matters, it’s t... |
4 May 2010
05:51 GMT |
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TweetSwitch has come up with a nice idea in re-routing and re-transmitting tweets to the user's desktop IM client. When direct access to Twitter is blocked or unavailable, the startup's newly launched service will help users send and receive status updates through a simple IM chat window. Currently in alph... |
16 January 2010
05:54 GMT |
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The long announced and awaited business features in Twitter seem to be almost ready for launch. Bloomberg reports that Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, is expecting these features to produce some bucks by the end of this year's Q4.Mr. Stone announced that a feature similar to the Google Analytics page woul... |
10 September 2009
04:58 GMT |
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The very same day its competitor ReTweet has launched its service, Tweetmeme is announcing a brand-new feature to come in next week. Retweeting blog posts is what Tweetmeme is all about but the site now wants to extend the functionality to comments as well. The feature will only be implemented to the comments on Twee... |
20 August 2009
04:39 GMT |
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Last month Twitter made a splash when it revealed that it had applied for a trademark on the word “tweet,” which is closely associated with the microblogging service but also widely used by third-party apps and services related to Twitter. It now turns out though that the trademark application was rejecte... |
20 August 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Twitter may be on the cutting edge of technology, communications, news reporting, social media, online marketing and any number of other related fields but it's actually a very slow moving company when it comes to changes to its product. It makes sense to be cautious to change a service known and loved for its s... |
28 July 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Shazam, a popular music discovery application for iPhone and iPod touch, has received an important update, adding abilities like Tweet your Tag, Share a music moment and Track your music journey. With Shazam, users can identify music tracks, buy them, and share the tags with friends, as well as learn about their favo... |
25 June 2009
05:46 GMT |
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MRR Software has updated Syrinx, the powerful, fully customizable Twitter client specifically designed for Mac OS X. The new release adds faster searching, scrolling and conversation viewing, and a smaller memory footprint, less CPU-intensive, even with thousands of tweets, to name just a few of the many changes avai... |
11 May 2009
08:22 GMT |
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Google has recently released the Beta version of Friend Connect, a service that enables non-technical site owners to enhance their websites with numerous social features, so that their visitors can easily login using their Google, AOL, OpenID, or Yahoo! credentials. Now, the service has been announced to receive supp... |
19 December 2008
02:15 GMT |
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Syrinx, a fully customizable twitter client designed for the Mac, is seeing its first public release. Having been built for efficient workflow as well as customization, MRR Software's app sports bookmarks, searching capabilities, a pause feature, easy keyboard controls and numerous customization methods (color, ... |
21 August 2008
17:06 GMT |
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