Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly has announced his plans to leave the company after a four year stint. Jaitly had joined Twitter in November 2012 as marker Director India. He announced his plans to move on from Twitter in series of tweets.
Twitter today announced that it will be discontinuing Vine mobile app in coming months. This comes after Twitter announced it will lay off approximately 9% of its global workforce. Vine, 6 second video sharing app was launched back in January 2013, Twitter released the app for Android later that year. Earlier this June it increased the video limit upto 140 seconds to compete … Continue reading “Twitter to shut down Vine in coming months”
Twitter has announced financial results for Q3, 2016 ended September 30, 2016. The micro blogging site has reported $616 million in revenue, up 8% YoY. Twitter now has 317 million users, up from 313 million from last quarter and 307 million from Q3 2015. This represents a 3% growth on last year.
Twitter had launched Moments curation tool for live events in October last year. Now the micro blogging site is opening Moments tool for everyone that will allow all users to create their own stories using tweets and photos.
Twitter is reportedly in talks with top tech companies for a potential buyout. A recent report from CNBC says that Google, Salesforce and others are eyeing to acquire the micro blogging site.
Twitter has officially rolled out the revamped 140-character tweet limit, as expected. The micro blogging site has removed photos, videos, GIFs, quote tweets and polls from the 140-character limit.
Twitter had announced in May that it will make changes to the 140 character limit. The micro blogging site is changing how it counts characters in a tweet from next week.
Twitter has been striving to curb and fight abuse on its platform from couple of years. Now, the micro blogging platform is going one step further and is developing an anti-harassment tool, according to a latest report from Bloomberg.
Twitter had started rolling out Night Mode for its Android app last month. Today, the micro blogging site is rolling out the same feature for its iOS app.
In a bid to offer better control on your notifications, Twitter is rolling out a new feature and bringing improvements to the current notification settings.
Twitter was testing Stickers for photos in March following which it was available for small number of users. Today, the micro blogging site has launched Stickers for all users.
Twitter has announced financial results for Q1 2016. The micro blogging site has recorded $602 million in revenue, up 20% year-over year.
Twitter started testing Night mode feature for Android in May. Now, the micro blogging site has officially rolled out the feature for the app.
Twitter is now making it easier for users to get the famous blue budge which represents a verified account. The micro blogging platform has announced that it has created an online application process for Twitter accounts to receive verified status.
Last month, Unicode Standard released the Version 9.0 collection of 72 new emojis. Now, Twitter for Web is getting support for these new emojis,
