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Twitter adds the ability to share block lists

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.
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Twitter makes it easy to follow conversations from Tweet page

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”

Twitter may acquire Flipboard for more than $1 billion

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.

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Twitter and Google team up to display tweets in mobile and web search results

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.

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Domino’s Pizza to introduce tweet-to-buy on May 20th in USA

Twitter seems to be quite a popular medium for service providers such as banks and now fast food companies to introduce methods to make transactions easier and faster for customers. Domino’s pizza is now allowing users to place their pizza orders simply by tweeting a pizza emoji to @Domino’s.

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Periscope now lets you sign up without Twitter account, gets other updates

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.

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Twitter revenue hits $436 million, 302 million MAU in Q1 2015

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.

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Twitter introduces personalised ‘Highlights’ feature for Android users

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. Continue reading “Twitter introduces personalised ‘Highlights’ feature for Android users”

Twitter updates policies to control online abuse and violent threats

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.

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Twitter revamps homepage to attract more users

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 to Twitter. The content ranges from various sections like TV Shows and Stars, Cute Animals, Business news, Pop Artists and so on. Once you click one one of those topics, you’ll see a stream of popular tweets within the category. The new homepage also includes a prominent search bar that suggests queries for popular trends and hashtags.

The redesigned page will allow you to check out real time news and conversations even if you do not plan on creating an account. Twitter had announced in November that 125 million users visit the Twitter homepage which is half of its actual user base. The micro blogging site said that the new Twitter.com is first coming to the U.S and will bring it to more users over time.

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