Twitter for Android seems to be getting new features including the ability to show which client Tweets originated from, video playback controls including a skip forward or rewind a few seconds with a tap on the right or left side of the screen. However, these new features are currently available only for few users and are not … Continue reading “Twitter for Android gets Tweet client indicator, video playback controls”
Owing to the growing frustration for the lack of an edit button on Twitter, the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey has shed some light on the company’s plans to build an edit button for Tweets. Speaking at an event at IIT Delhi, India, he said that the company has to carefully consider the use cases for … Continue reading “Twitter planning on bringing edit button to fix typos in Tweets”
Twitter has added a new compose button to its official iOS mobile app that is designed for one-handed scrolling and tweet composing. Pressing and hold the icon gives you access to drafts, photos, and the GIF gallery. It is present on the bottom, it can be tapped to start composing a tweet.
Twitter has announced that it is testing a new way to display Tweets in the feed. The company will now allow you to switch your timeline between the latest and top Tweets. This will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening.
Twitter, Inc. has announced financial results for its third quarter of 2018 which had a total revenue of $758 million, an increase of 29% year-over-year. The company’s advertising revenue totaled $650 million, an increase of 29% year-over-year. Twitter’s total ad engagements increased 50% year-over-year and the cost per engagement decreased 14% year-over-year.
Twitter has announced moving forward it will count all emojis equally including those with gender and skin tone modifiers. This update marks significant progress for our service, and everyone can now benefit from the additional room to express themselves with more character. It is also in support of recent updates to Unicode.
Twitter today announced that it is removing the ability to create Moments on the Twitter for iOS or Android apps on October 23rd. The company says that it often removes the features that aren’t used much to focus on building other products that are used most.
Twitter has rolled out an update to its Twitter mobile app which brings Dava-Saving feature to let users have more control over their data usage. Instead of saving data using the Lite app, users can instead turn on the toggle to save data using the main app.
Twitter today has made a little change to its video section; next time when you’re watching a full video size, you don’t have to tap out to reply. Prior to this change, users had to tap out to reply. Twitter finally has fixed it.
Twitter today announced that it will soon let you catch up on the best Tweets from people you follow. The next time when you uncheck the “Show the best tweets first” setting, Twitter will display the Tweets in reverse chronological order; non-algorithmic timeline.
Social media and micro-blogging service Twitter has launched a new service that let users create audio-only broadcast directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. This feature is available from the same interface where the user normally launches live video. Having said that, it’s currently available on the Twitter app for iOS, as well … Continue reading “Twitter launches audio-only broadcast for iOS and Periscope”
After the controversial API changes, Twitter is all set to introduce new features for its native application. Named as ‘Presence’ and ‘Threading’, the Presence features lets users see who else is online at any given moment, while the Threading will make replies more like messaging interface.
Twitter has introduced a new Inbox style wherein you will now see messages from people you follow in one section and Messages from the people you don’t follow in the ‘Requests’ setting in case you have enabled ‘Receive messages from anyone’. These are now filtered, so it’s easier to see the useful messages.
Twitter today announced that it is ending support for some outdated developer tools, after killing off the support for Twitter for Apple Watch and Twitter for Mac. In order to prioritize making the user experiences great, the company has decided to stop investing in other products including two legacy developer tools used by about 1% of third-party … Continue reading “Twitter explains why it is ending support for outdated legacy APIs and developer tools”
Launched back in April last year in Philippines, Twitter Lite Android app expanded to 24 new countries in December, now it has been expanded to 21 more countries, including India taking the total to 46 countries. The app is aimed to bring a new web experience for users offering minimized data usage and faster loading speed on slower connections … Continue reading “Twitter Lite expands to 21 more countries including India, gets push notifications, Night mode and more”
