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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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Whether or not Apple plans to make a habit out of promoting free apps, this week the company announced on Twitter that Cut the Rope: Experiments was its “Free App of the Week.” Apple has also instated an "Editors' Choice" section. The Cupertino giant published a tweet yesterday announcing that ... |
25 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Never criticize one of Chris Brown's performances, even if it's to state the obvious, that he occasionally turns to lip-syncing, especially when he has a more challenging routine to perform. Sports Illustrated model Chrissy Teigen found out the hard way. Chris Brown performed at the 2012 Billboard Awards, ... |
23 May 2012
07:47 GMT |
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Apparently, actress Raven Symone has been plagued by gay rumors for years, but it's just recently that the tabloids started focusing more on her again, as one report linked her to America's Next Top Model's AzMarie Livingston. She's speaking out on those rumors on her Twitter.
The other day, The... |
19 May 2012
07:51 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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Twitter has announced that it's going to start respecting the Do Not Track header. That's because it plans to start tracking people across the web, via its buttons, widgets, embedded tweets and so on.
But before it can do that, it has to update its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Learning a thing or... |
18 May 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Mozilla finally has something to brag about when it comes to Do Not Track and brag it does. Mozilla's privacy lead Alex Fowler praises Twitter for its adoption of the Do Not Track header and is sharing some numbers about adoption, which are quite impressive.
Do Not Track was introduced about a year ago by Mozil... |
18 May 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Twitter has started experimenting with customizing follow suggestions based on your interests. That sounds like a good idea, it's getting harder and harder to find people to follow on Twitter and the problem is bigger for new users.
Twitter suggests accounts you may want to follow when you first sign up, based ... |
18 May 2012
05:28 GMT |
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Twitter, by and large, is a public place. People tweet things they want many others to see. Twitter doesn't require people to use their real name, yet a lot of people do. But Twitter's fast paced nature has people churning out tweets that may not seem such a good idea a second later.
They can delete them o... |
17 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Mozilla's pioneering Do Not Track initiative, which has since been co-opted into an industry standard, not yet finished, paved the way for a different approach to privacy, one in which users had at least some say and control.
Do Not Track is by no means perfect, but it's a big step forward. One of the big ... |
17 May 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Twitter has been working on translating the site in as many languages as possible, for the past couple of years. The Twitter Translation Center, its crowdsourcing translation tool has been doing great so far, churning out translations for new languages in weeks.
Now, Twitter is adding six more languages to the cente... |
17 May 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Twitter is a fast-paced world, it's the epitome of the real-time web. People want information and they want it "now." It's a pretty disposable world as well, tweets come and go and if you don't manage to see them when they first show up, they'll get buried beneath a flood of others.
But Twitter n... |
15 May 2012
05:45 GMT |
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It's hard to notice it, but search is hard. You can get anything you want on Google in less than a second, but behind this stands a decade and a half of work. Twitter knows this too well, granted the site is a lot smaller than the whole internet Google, Bing and the others have to scour, but it has some unique c... |
13 May 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Facebook is going the Twitter route and is testing an ad unit that allows users to "highlight" some of the posts, for money. It works in a very similar way to Promoted Tweets, highlighted posts will be seen by more of your friends, fans or followers, by keeping it in the news feed for longer, placing it higher and ge... |
11 May 2012
06:11 GMT |
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In what is, unfortunately, rather rare, Twitter is once again stepping up to defend its users against the ever curious eyes of the US government. Companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and everyone else constantly get requests to hand over information on their users.
Twitter is a particularly targeted company sinc... |
9 May 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Mobile usage is exploding, that much everyone knows. What's more, mobile users prefer apps to websites, this isn't news either. What is new though is that users are now starting to spend more time on their phones than on their computers.Already, those that access Facebook via their mobile devices, granted, ... |
8 May 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Twitpic is trying to stay afloat now that its bread-and-butter business is being threatened by other services and even Twitter features and has unveiled an iPhone app to go along with the online service. The app is designed to make it easy to share a photo to Twitter, but also comes with a photo editor, courtesy of A... |
8 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Twitpic is now available on the App Store supporting iPhones and iPads running iOS 5.0 or newer. Twitpic is the original photo sharing solution for Twitter and arrives on iOS one year late. Twitter photo sharing is no doubt one of the most popular social activities involving Apple’s platforms. With an ecosyst... |
8 May 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Twitter, the highly popular micro-blogging social network, has just delivered a new set of enhancements for those users accessing it from their mobile phones. With an increasing number of mobile users, Twitter had to come up with a better experience for those who cannot access it via a dedicated app on their handse... |
8 May 2012
05:46 GMT |
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French law makes it a violation to publish election results before the ballots close in an effort not to skew opinions. But the law was created more than three decades ago when there were few who had the ability to speak of these things to any significant number of people.
But with Facebook, Twitter and everything i... |
7 May 2012
10:12 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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Tapbots have released a major update for their intuitive Twitter client for iPhone and iPad users, Tweetbot 2.3. The new version brings a cool tweet detail view with inline conversations and replies, and a handy conversation view, to highlight just a couple of the new features.
Arguably a much better Twitter client ... |
1 May 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Pinterest may not be selling for $1 billion (yet), but it's one of the hottest things on the web at the moment. While growth rate has slowed down a bit recently, unsurprisingly since it was unsustainably huge for a few months, the site keeps on getting new users and keeps on getting bigger.
Daily unique visitor... |
30 April 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Russian security firm that originally acknowledged the Flashback botnet spread across 650,000 Macs continues to analyze the behavior of the Trojan, as “Files downloaded by the Trojan horse from servers controlled by criminals have become one of the main subjects for analysis.” “Doctor Web virus... |
30 April 2012
02:36 GMT |
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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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For the past couple of weeks, there's been a lot of talk about how Jessica Simpson had given birth to her first child, a baby daughter she named Maxwell. As it turns out, she didn't – yet. Late last week, InTouch came out with a “news from the future” issue in which it offered “all t... |
24 April 2012
11:16 GMT |
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In late 2011, only one name could get millions of Justin Bieber fans in a fit of rage: Mariah Yeater, the woman who claimed to be the mother of his infant child. If you forgot about her already, Justin himself is there to remind you of her existence. The other day, TMZ reports, the pop star took to his Twitter to p... |
24 April 2012
04:26 GMT |
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Twitter has started supporting the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and became a bronze sponsor. Twitter uses plenty of open-source tools, many of them fostered by Apache, among them Mesos, an ASF Incubator project.
"Open source is a pervasive part of our culture. Many projects at Twitter rely on open source technol... |
20 April 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Tumblr, like Twitter before it, is turning to advertising to generate revenue after saying it was out of the question, absolutely the last option, for years. And, just like Twitter, Tumblr plans to make the best of its assets and have the ads be actual content, i.e. "promoted" posts.
The plan is to have branded Tumb... |
19 April 2012
07:54 GMT |
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Not long ago, reality star turned wannabe pop star Heidi Montag was complaining she'd gone bankrupt trying to launch her music career, which seemed to have run into the ground with her debut album “Superficial.” She's now back, promoting on Twitter an EP called “Dreams Come True,” w... |
18 April 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Twitter is proposing a solution to the poor state of the patent landscape, one that empowers the engineers and researchers that come up with the patented ideas and that blocks companies from using their patents for anything else than defense. The Innovator's Patent Agreement is a new type of license that Twitte... |
18 April 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Anderson Cooper has said before that, when it comes to giggling uncontrollably, he's worse than a 13-year-old girl who's about to meet her idol Justin Bieber. Further proof of that, if more was needed, is below. On the latest CNN RidicuList segment, which was dedicated to the Polish-American holiday Dyngu... |
12 April 2012
05:56 GMT |
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140 characters can be woefully limiting, but sometimes limits are the best thing for creativity. There's hardly a brand these days that doesn't have a Twitter account. Some use them to connect with customers and fans, some to show off their latest and greatest products.
Smart Argentina used its account to ... |
11 April 2012
08:31 GMT |
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It would seem that James Franco is cool whatever he does, even if that includes showing his admiration for co-star Selena Gomez by lip-syncing to one of her latest songs. Below is a video the actor, who is now working with the Disney darling on “Spring Breakers,” as he posted it on his WhoSay account... |
10 April 2012
11:14 GMT |
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Katie Price (formerly known solely as Jordan) has added another item to her impressive collection of tattoos. As is customary, the model and businesswoman has boasted of the new ink on Twitter. Over the weekend, Price took to her official Twitter page to let her friends, fans and followers know that work on the pie... |
9 April 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Tapbots is pleased to announce Tweetbot 2.2, an update to their cool Twitter client for iOS devices which adds iCloud sync for users’ timelines, direct messages, mute filters, and more, making it a must-download for all existing users.In addition to bringing iCloud integration, Tweetbot 2.2 delivers mute filter... |
7 April 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Twitter spam isn't much of a problem, in the sense that it's not a bigger problem than in other places online, but it exists and most users encounter it from time to time. Twitter has been doing well at combating spam, at the very least, it's doing a lot better than in some previous years. Now though,... |
6 April 2012
08:32 GMT |
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There's a very good reason why people love Ryan Gosling and, believe it or not, it has almost nothing to do with his good looks. As Time also put it last year, he is just one of the coolest guys around – and no one knows that better now than British journalist Lauren Penny.
Known for being an overall awe... |
5 April 2012
02:58 GMT |
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The other day, the Daily Mail ran a piece by Samantha Brick that wasn't titled – but should have been – Women Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful. It's now gone viral, prompting another essay from Brick herself. To sum up the original piece, though it's best if you read it for yourself if ... |
4 April 2012
11:16 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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Apple has announced on Twitter that the App Store has been “refreshed” and that customers should get ready to download “the latest, greatest apps.”A tweet fired off by the staffers handling the @AppStore Twitter stream for Apple says (on behalf of the Cupertino giant): “We just updated @... |
31 March 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Twitter’s TweetDeck, the application that “brings more flexibility and insight to power users,” has been taken temporarily offline after a customer from Australia noticed that he could gained access to hundreds of other accounts through the app.
“TweetDeck is currently down while we look into... |
31 March 2012
03:06 GMT |
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After weeks of intense speculation that their marriage is on the verge of ruin, Khloe Kardashian is taking to her official Twitter page to shut down such malicious reports. It's a lie, she says.
Because they married after a very short courtship, Khloe and Lamar Odom have constantly been plagued by breakup rumo... |
30 March 2012
10:32 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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Algoriddim has released Djay 1.4.2, an updated version of its full–fledged DJ system application with new Retina display graphics, BPM fixes, and improved effects.Apple today used Twitter to highlight the updated Djay app, saying “Party people, djay has been enhanced for the new iPad.” In usual mann... |
29 March 2012
08:39 GMT |
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Tumblr's explosive growth hasn't been surprising for a while, but the latest stats are impressive nonetheless. The site now counts 20 billion posts hosted and almost 50 million individual blogs.
Granted, 50 million blogs does not equal 50 million bloggers as many people curate more than one blog, but that&... |
28 March 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The other day, Deadmau5 ripped into Madonna in several, very harsh online posts, for apparently supporting drug use by giving “molly” a shout-out during a recent concert. She's reached out to him now and the feud is over. It all started when Madonna took to the stage in Miami and asked the crowd &l... |
28 March 2012
06:54 GMT |
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After on-set photos leaked the other day, fans are finally treated to the first official photo from the star-studded “Les Miserables.” Click the image above to see it in full.Hugh Jackman, who plays Jean Valjean in the film, shared the photo with his fans on his official Twitter page. From that to going v... |
28 March 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that, in a couple of months, it's shutting down Yahoo Meme, which you're probably hearing about for the first time. The site was Yahoo's take on Twitter though without the 140-character limitation, taking some cues from Tumblr as well. If you have heard about it or you're using... |
27 March 2012
09:11 GMT |
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