Twitter finally drops 140 character limit for Direct Messages

Twitter has removed the 140 character limit for Direct Messages. With the latest update Twitter users can now send other users direct messages with more than 140 characters.

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Twitter records $502 million revenue in Q2, 2015, hits 316M MAU

Twitter has announced that it recorded $502 million in revenue for Q2, 2015 up more than 60 percent over this same time last year. Analysts had expected lower revenue of $487.4 million for the company this quarter.

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Twitter introduces new Safety Center to handle online abuse easily

Twitter has launched Safety Center to help its users handle online harassment in a easy way. The Safety Center will educate users about online safety.

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Twitter testing Project Lightning feature that focuses on current events

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.

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Twitter buys artificial intelligence company Whetlab

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.

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Twitter brings autoplay videos and GIF to your timeline

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.

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Twitter will remove the 140 character limit on Direct Messaging next month

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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 to change as Twitter is planning to remove the character limit sometime next month.

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Twitter makes it easy to follow conversations from Tweet page

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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. Continue reading “Twitter makes it easy to follow conversations from Tweet page”