Twitter has been working on a lot of features right now especially on curbing fake news and abusive content. In this regard, a few days back, the micro-blogging site shared the progress and changes that can be expected in the upcoming months. Continue reading “Twitter rolls out a dedicated ‘Report’ option to prevent misleading election tweets”
As per the latest news, Twitter is expanding its dark mode options for iOS users by adding a “Lights Out” option as well as an automatic dark mode. There is an optional setting that makes the current dark mode more of a pitch black. Continue reading “Twitter rolls out ‘Lights out’ AMOLED-friendly true-black dark mode”
Not so long ago, Twitter announced prototype of its new beta app “Twttr” to the selected user which lets testers try out new features and provide feedback. Continue reading “Twitter rolls out ‘Twttr’ experimental beta app to let users test new features”
Twitter is adding an option to report problematic tweets that share personal information on the platform. From now on, while reporting, the user will be redirected to the menu that allows them to be more specific and highlight the information. Continue reading “Twitter makes it easier to report tweets that share personal information”
Twitter confirmed that it is developing a new “Hide Tweet” feature which will give users an ability to protect their conversations. This new option is found in Twitter’s code and appear in the list choices when you click the “Share” button on a tweet. “Hide Tweet” might work as an alternative to muting or blocking a user, while still offering some control over a conversation. Continue reading “Twitter confirms to be working on ‘Hide Tweet’ feature”
Twitter doesn’t want to embrace an ‘edit button’, though it remains one of the most requested features. The company in numerous instances in the past has slipped answering the question. However, this time, it sounds different as the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking about” some kind of feature that would let people go back to the Tweet and add clarifications or annotations to old tweets. Continue reading “Twitter to soon let you add clarifications or annotations to old tweets”
Twitter has announced that it is testing the ability to check profiles on iOS without leaving your timeline. To access a profile while scrolling through the timeline, simply tap any @handle in a Tweet, take a peek and scroll right back. Continue reading “Twitter testing new pop-up design to quickly view profile details on iOS”
Twitter, Inc. has announced financial results for its fourth quarter of 2018 which had total revenue of $909 million, an increase of 24% year-over-year. The company’s advertising revenue totaled $791 million, an increase of 23% year-over-year. Twitter’s total ad engagements increased 33% year-over-year and the cost per engagement decreased 7% year-over-year. Continue reading “Twitter reports $909 million revenue, 24% YoY growth and 126 million monetizable daily active users in Q4 2018”
Twitter has announced that it is stepping up its fight against notification spammer as the functionality of three of these services — ManageFlitter, Statusbrew, Crowdfire stopped functioning. Twitter has confirmed its actions and said that these three apps for having repeatedly violated the API rules. Continue reading “Twitter revokes API access of three notification spammer apps that sell fake followers”
Twitter is testing “Original Tweeter” tag to make it easier to parse who started a thread on Twitter. This new feature finds posts from the original tweeter of a thread, and might also help curb abuse on the platform. However, it is currently being tested with feature users and not available widely. Continue reading “Twitter confirms it is testing “Original Tweeter” tag to distinguish who started a thread”
Twitter for the web is getting a new interface that brings several key features including a newly designed emoji button, quick keyboard shortcuts, upgraded trends, advanced search, and more. Continue reading “Twitter’s new web interface brings emoji button, quick keyboard shortcuts and more”
Twitter for Android has been effected with an issue where ‘Protect Your Tweets’setting has been disabled if a certain amount of changes were made. The company says that it is aware of the issue and users may have been impacted by this issue if they had protected Tweets turned on in the settings, and made certain changes to account settings such as changing the email address associated with your account between November 3, 2014, and January 14, 2019. Continue reading “Twitter acknowledges bug that exposed protected Tweets of some Android users for years”
After introducing the feature for iOS last month, Twitter is bringing the ability to switch between the latest and top Tweets for Android. When enabled, this will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Twitter says that, over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you regularly switch to the latest tweets, Twitter will by default show them to you. Continue reading “Twitter for Android gets the ability to switch between latest and top Tweets”
Twitter at CES 2019 has announced a new program to reshape conversations on the platform. This would let users try out a new organization and context features with followers, such as the status updates and “ice breaker” tweets, which are designed to encourage people to talk to each other. The company plans to start testing this program in the coming weeks. Continue reading “Twitter to start public testing of new conversation features”
After testing it for a while, Twitter is finally rolling out the ability to switch between the latest and top Tweets on iOS. When enabled, this will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Twitter says that, over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you regularly switch to the latest tweets, Twitter will by default show them to you. Continue reading “Twitter for iOS now lets you switch timeline between latest and top Tweets, coming to Android soon”
