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Twitter app gets a new camera screen to easily share images and videos by swiping left

Twitter has started rolling out updated camera that lets you capture photos, video or live footage to start a Periscope livestream, just by swiping left from the home timeline. After you capture a video or image, you can add the location, add text on a colored label and Tweet it immediately. This Snapchat-like feature was … Continue reading “Twitter app gets a new camera screen to easily share images and videos by swiping left”

Alphabet’s AI-powered Chrome extension lets you filter out toxic comments on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more

The Internet is a boon and bane! In fact, the comment section can be both inspiring and depressing. Moderating a comment section is a tough job, if not done properly, it can create havoc with toxic words.  In an attempt to curb this, Alphabet’s Jigsaw is working on an experimental Tune Chrome extension that lets … Continue reading “Alphabet’s AI-powered Chrome extension lets you filter out toxic comments on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more”

Twitter confirms to be working on ‘Hide Tweet’ feature

Twitter confirmed that it is developing a new “Hide Tweet” feature which will give users an ability to protect their conversations. This new option is found in Twitter’s code and appear in the list choices when you click the “Share” button on a tweet. “Hide Tweet” might work as an alternative to muting or blocking … Continue reading “Twitter confirms to be working on ‘Hide Tweet’ feature”

Twitter to soon let you add clarifications or annotations to old tweets

Twitter doesn’t want to embrace an ‘edit button’, though it remains one of the most requested features. The company in numerous instances in the past has slipped answering the question. However, this time, it sounds different as the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking about” some kind of feature that would let people go … Continue reading “Twitter to soon let you add clarifications or annotations to old tweets”

Twitter reports $909 million revenue, 24% YoY growth and 126 million monetizable daily active users in Q4 2018

Twitter, Inc. has announced financial results for its fourth quarter of 2018 which had total revenue of $909 million, an increase of 24% year-over-year. The company’s advertising revenue totaled $791 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year. Twitter’s total ad engagements increased 33% year-over-year and the cost per engagement decreased 7% year-over-year.

Twitter revokes API access of three notification spammer apps that sell fake followers

Twitter has announced that it is stepping up its fight against notification spammer as the functionality of three of these services — ManageFlitter, Statusbrew, Crowdfire stopped functioning. Twitter has confirmed its actions and said that these three apps for having repeatedly violated the API rules. 

Twitter confirms it is testing “Original Tweeter” tag to distinguish who started a thread

Twitter is testing “Original Tweeter” tag to make it easier to parse who started a thread on Twitter. This new feature finds posts from the original tweeter of a thread, and might also help curb abuse on the platform. However, it is currently being tested with feature users and not available widely. 

Twitter acknowledges bug that exposed protected Tweets of some Android users for years

Twitter for Android has been effected with an issue where ‘Protect Your Tweets’setting has been disabled if a certain amount of changes were made. The company says that it is aware of the issue and users may have been impacted by this issue if they had protected Tweets turned on in the settings, and made … Continue reading “Twitter acknowledges bug that exposed protected Tweets of some Android users for years”

Twitter for Android gets the ability to switch between latest and top Tweets

After introducing the feature for iOS last month, Twitter is bringing the ability to switch between the latest and top Tweets for Android. When enabled, this will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Twitter says that, over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you regularly … Continue reading “Twitter for Android gets the ability to switch between latest and top Tweets”

Twitter to start public testing of new conversation features

Twitter at CES 2019 has announced a new program to reshape conversations on the platform. This would let users try out a new organization and context features with followers, such as the status updates and “ice breaker” tweets, which are designed to encourage people to talk to each other. The company plans to start testing this … Continue reading “Twitter to start public testing of new conversation features”

Twitter for iOS now lets you switch timeline between latest and top Tweets, coming to Android soon

After testing it for a while, Twitter is finally rolling out the ability to switch between the latest and top Tweets on iOS. When enabled, this will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Twitter says that, over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you regularly … Continue reading “Twitter for iOS now lets you switch timeline between latest and top Tweets, coming to Android soon”