Twitter today announced financial results for its second quarter 2018. The company’s Q2 revenue totaled $711 million that is a solid increase of 24% year-over-year. Twitter’s Advertising revenue was around $601 million, a growth of 23% YoY. it reported a net income of $100 million in Q2 2018.
Twitter today has announced that between April and June 2018, removed more than 143,000 apps that violated the policies. The company also announced its efforts to stop malicious apps from entering the platform and remove problematic apps to limit the access these apps have on the platform in the first place.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft today announced that they are joining hands for an initiative called the Data Transfer Project which is designed as a new way to move data between platforms. This open source initiative will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload … Continue reading “Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft join hands for Data Transfer Project (DTP)”
Twitter is finally rolling out a new bottom navigation bar for Android much like how it is for iOS. This makes it easier for navigation while browsing through the latest tweets. However, this change doesn’t let you swipe between the various tabs of the app such as Home, Search, Notifications, and Messages.
Twitter in its ongoing fight against fake accounts today has announced that starting this week it will be removing the locked accounts from follower counts across profiles globally and as a result of this, the number of followers displayed on many profiles may go down.
Twitter doesn’t seem to be slowing down its fight against fake users as the company reportedly suspended 70 million accounts in May and June in its attempts to reduce the impact of misinformation. This new count is double the accounts it suspended back in October.
Twitter last year had announced its intentions to offer transparency for all ads running on Twitter, with a specific emphasis on political advertising. Today the company is introducing the Ads Transparency Center, which allows anyone across the globe to view ads that have been served on Twitter.
Twitter today has shared four new steps that it is taking to address spam and malicious automation issues; reducing the visibility of suspicious accounts in Tweet and account metric, improving the signup process, auditing existing accounts for signs of automated signup, expansion of our malicious behavior detection systems.
Twitter today is rolling out major changes to its platform to make it easier to find and follow the big events and stories you care about in your timeline, notifications, and Explore. It is also rolling out a new look and feel for Moments showing everything you’d want to see.
Twitter is now bringing few much-needed features like night mode, Retweet and likes count, real-time updates to reply, and more to its Windows, Lite app and mobile site platforms. The company says that these updates are aimed at providing more consistency across platforms.
Twitter is rolling out its own Twemoji on Android, and this will replace the native emojis previously shown from Google and Samsung. This new emoji set looks to be targeting users on Android 7.x and below. After facing numerous cases of missing emojis on older systems, the new Twitter’s own Twemoji on Android will now be a fresh … Continue reading “Twitter rolls out its own Twemoji emojis on Android”
Twitter back in March introduced a new approach to improve the health of the public conversation on Twitter. Since then it has been working on what one refers to as “trolls,” which is behavior is fun, good and humorous. Today the company is taking actions against such trolls that distort and detract from the public conversation on … Continue reading “Twitter to start hiding Tweets from trolls in conversations and search”
Twitter claims that it uses technology that masks the user passwords so that no one at the company can see them. However, the company has recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. But Twitter says that it has fixed the bug and a closed investigation ensures no sign of breach or misuse by … Continue reading “Twitter advices its 336 million users to change the password over a bug”
With phone sizes becoming bigger and bigger every passing day, the U.I redesign of apps has become mandatory in order complement the larger screens. With the same thought, Twitter is now said to be testing bottom navigation bar, but there is no way you can to trigger the UI yourself just yet.
Twitter app is now available for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store. It packs most of the essential features like longer Tweets, the Explore tab to find topics relevant to your interests, and the ability to bookmark Tweets to be read later.
