All the stories tagged with twitter
Volume And Noise Invention Reads Out Tweets
11/30/2012, I have yet to lose the amazement at reading some of the tweets that folks, er, tweet about, and the most recent faux pas that I read came from the United Nations themselves in the form of a typo, touching [...]
Twitter Had Zero Contribution To Black Friday Revenue
11/26/2012, Hmmm, normally, one would take to social media to spread the word on a particular event or happening at the lowest cost possible, but it seems as though this Black Friday, social media proved to be far from effective. In [...]
Twitter Lets You Share Tweet Via Emails
11/15/2012, Facebook might have a spanking new mobile share button, so it goes without saying that Twitter does not want to get left behind in the novelty stakes where the hundreds of millions of users of both social networks (although others [...]
Twitter resetting passwords due to alleged security threat
11/08/2012, If you are receiving an email from Twitter prompting you to change your password, then it’s probably best to heed what the company is saying. After all, it’s better to be safe than to compromise. For some reason, Twitter has [...]
Twitter updates their DMCA takedown policy
11/05/2012, Have you ever tried to access a tweet, but only to find it removed? Perhaps the poster took it down, or perhaps it was a bad link, or perhaps Twitter took it down due to alleged copyright violations, but whatever [...]
Twitter planning to add photo filters, says report
11/02/2012, Instagram, apart from its photo-centric aesthetic qualities, also features an astute photo filtering service. This makes the photo-sharing platform very very enticing. In fact, it was so enticing that Twitter once considered acquiring the company behind it. But after losing [...]
New algorithm can predict trending topics on Twitter better and faster
11/02/2012, In case you didn’t know, Twitter actually has an updated list of trending topics in its home page. These trending topics are based on a proprietary algorithm that factors in both the number of tweets and recent increases in that [...]
Skydrive images posted natively on Twitter timeline
10/30/2012, Should you happen to use both Twitter and Skydrive in a prolific manner, then you would obviously realize that it was possible to only post links to your stream – until today, that is. From now on, Skydrive images will [...]
Tweetphony is symphony of tweets
10/24/2012, I always like the way technology and the arts merge together, meeting in the middle and delivering a totally new take on what was once something traditional. The Metropole Orchestra, for instance, will take to the social network Twitter for [...]
Twitter tests out new “Like” or “Star” buttons
10/23/2012, When it comes to social networks, there are many different options available to the masses. Twitter, the micro blogging site as some like to call it, has introduced a couple of new buttons such as “Like” and “Star” for you [...]
Instagram will translate Instagram mentions to Twitter mentions automatically, makes life a little easier
10/22/2012, Given that Instagram has a community of its own and that people do subscribe to other Instagram accounts, naturally @mentions do pop up ever so often. However those @mentions could get confusing especially when you have friends on Twitter and [...]
German-based users see neo-Nazi Twitter account blocked
10/18/2012, Twitter has set up a block for a neo-Nazi account, preventing access to all and sundry. This particular block was put in place at the request of the German government. Basically, in plain English, this means that tweets on that [...]
Flies send tweets via Flytweet
10/17/2012, David Bowen must have quite the vivid imagination to come up with this rather nifty contraption that he calls the “Flytweet”. Basically, the Flytweet’s name gives the game away already, where it functions as a device which is capable of [...]
