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”
Twitter for Android seems to be getting new features including the ability to show which client Tweets originated from, video playback controls including a skip forward or rewind a few seconds with a tap on the right or left side of the screen. However, these new features are currently available only for few users and are not widely available. Continue reading “Twitter for Android gets Tweet client indicator, video playback controls”
Owing to the growing frustration for the lack of an edit button on Twitter, the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey has shed some light on the company’s plans to build an edit button for Tweets. Speaking at an event at IIT Delhi, India, he said that the company has to carefully consider the use cases for the edit button before making it a reality. Continue reading “Twitter planning on bringing edit button to fix typos in Tweets”
Twitter has added a new compose button to its official iOS mobile app that is designed for one-handed scrolling and tweet composing. Pressing and hold the icon gives you access to drafts, photos, and the GIF gallery. It is present on the bottom, it can be tapped to start composing a tweet. Continue reading “Twitter adds new floating compose button for iOS”
Twitter has announced that it is testing a new way to display Tweets in the feed. The company will now allow you to switch your timeline between the latest and top Tweets. This will bring the latest Tweets to the top in you want to know what’s been happening. Continue reading “Twitter testing ability to switch timeline between latest and top Tweets on iOS”
Twitter, Inc. has announced financial results for its third quarter of 2018 which had a total revenue of $758 million, an increase of 29% year-over-year. The company’s advertising revenue totaled $650 million, an increase of 29% year-over-year. Twitter’s total ad engagements increased 50% year-over-year and the cost per engagement decreased 14% year-over-year. Continue reading “Twitter reports $758 million revenue, 29% YoY growth in Q3 2018, has 326 million monthly active users”
Twitter has announced moving forward it will count all emojis equally including those with gender and skin tone modifiers. This update marks significant progress for our service, and everyone can now benefit from the additional room to express themselves with more character. It is also in support of recent updates to Unicode.
Continue reading “Twitter brings uniformity to emoji character count”
Twitter today announced that it is removing the ability to create Moments on the Twitter for iOS or Android apps on October 23rd. The company says that it often removes the features that aren’t used much to focus on building other products that are used most. Continue reading “Twitter to drop support for creation of Moments on Android and iOS on October 23rd”
Twitter has rolled out an update to its Twitter mobile app which brings Dava-Saving feature to let users have more control over their data usage. Instead of saving data using the Lite app, users can instead turn on the toggle to save data using the main app. Continue reading “Twitter for Android and iOS gets new ‘Data-Saver’ mode”
Twitter today has made a little change to its video section; next time when you’re watching a full video size, you don’t have to tap out to reply. Prior to this change, users had to tap out to reply. Twitter finally has fixed it. Continue reading “Now you can send replies while watching Twitter videos in full screen”
Twitter today announced that it will soon let you catch up on the best Tweets from people you follow. The next time when you uncheck the “Show the best tweets first” setting, Twitter will display the Tweets in reverse chronological order; non-algorithmic timeline. Continue reading “Twitter to soon let users switch between chronological and ranked timeline”
Social media and micro-blogging service Twitter has launched a new service that let users create audio-only broadcast directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. This feature is available from the same interface where the user normally launches live video. Having said that, it’s currently available on the Twitter app for iOS, as well as on Periscope. Continue reading “Twitter launches audio-only broadcast for iOS and Periscope”
After the controversial API changes, Twitter is all set to introduce new features for its native application. Named as ‘Presence’ and ‘Threading’, the Presence features lets users see who else is online at any given moment, while the Threading will make replies more like messaging interface. Continue reading “Twitter is testing Presence and Reply Threading features”
Recently, some user reported that their cross-posted tweets disappeared from Facebook suddenly. However, it became clear after some that Facebook has removed all tweets that user posted through cross-posting from Twitter. Continue reading “Facebook removes cross-posted Tweets after recent API change”
