Twitter is testing a new platform that will allows users to keep a tab of current events in real time. Dubbed as Project Lightning, the photo and video centric tool will allow users to browse tweets based on live events, as per a latest BuzzFeed report.
Twitter has announced the acquisition of a Whetlab, a startup focused on machine learning technology. Whetlab confirmed the acquisition on its website while Twitter announced it via an official tweet.
Twitter is following the footsteps of Facebook and Instagram by bringing autoplay videos and GIF to your timeline. Autoplay videos will first go live on iOS and will soon come to web and Android.
Users of twitter will be familiar with the 140 character limit that is set for tweets. The same rule applies for direct messages as well and that is weird as it doesn’t necessarily have to be that short and most often people resort to multiple DMs to get their message across. That is all set … Continue reading “Twitter will remove the 140 character limit on Direct Messaging next month”
Twitter’s long time CEO Dick Costolo has decided to step down from his role starting July 1. Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s Co-founder will become the interim CEO.
With an aim to make it easy for its users to protect themselves and others from abusive accounts, Twitter has launched a new tool that lets them export and share block lists.
Twitter is making conversation even easier to follow. Similar to what micro-blogging company did with the conversation in the home timeline, it announced on Monday that it has made some changes to how conversations are shown on the Tweet page for easy follow up.
Twitter is eyeing to acquire Flipboard, as per a report from Re/Code. The micro blogging site is said to be in talks to buy Flipboard for more than $1 billion in all stock deal.
Google has partnered Twitter to display tweets in search result on mobile and desktop. The new feature will become available on the English version of Google.com, the Android and iOS versions of Google’s search app, and on mobile browsers.
Twitter’s popular livestreaming app Periscope has received a major update to its iOS app. The app is getting the ability to sign up for the service without a Twitter account.
Twitter announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015. The micro blogging site reported that the revenue was $436 million in Q1, an increase of 74 percent on a year-over-year basis however, well below estimates of $456 million.
Twitter on Thursday announced that it is rolling out a new feature called Highlights to Android app users that will send out a summary of the missed best-tweets via push notifications twice a day.
With an aim to curb online abuse and tackle online threats, Twitter has made some important policy changes. The micro blogging site has introduced new policies to control cyberbullying and abuse threats.
Twitter has redesigned homepage of its web client with aim to lure non-Twitter users.It features topics that point to timelines of tweets from popular Twitter accounts and a prominent search bar that makes suggestions, as well as a way to login. The new homepage shows curated content streams and this does not require users to sign in … Continue reading “Twitter revamps homepage to attract more users”
Twitter has announced that it now supports slow motion videos taken from your iPhone. The micro blogging site will now play slow motion videos uploaded by iPhone users.
