Twitter has now confirmed that it is now pushing more ‘News links’ by your network on the timeline and is also and grouping the tweets mentioning the link underneath it. This is a much-needed move from Twitter in order to seize the identity in the news section it lacked for a long time. Continue reading “Twitter now shows more ‘News links’ on the timeline”
Twitter for months is now trying to push users to its own app showcasing its hostile behavior towards third-party apps. Features like group DMs, polls, and Moments never made it to third-party apps. In fact, it also introduced a token limit a few years ago causing popular clients to stop working suddenly. Continue reading “Twitter delays the implementation of new ‘Account Activity API’ that would kill third-party clients”
Twitter has introduced new Timestamps feature that lets you share live video or replay at any specific moment. Twitter says that it rolled out this feature after seeing user share live videos with a specific time in the video they wanted to talk about. Continue reading “Twitter and Periscope Timestamps lets you share live videos from any specific moment”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a periscope chat has mentioned that it is planning on expanding its verified service and will also allow any user to become verified. But he didn’t mention the process for the same. The company stopped taking applications for verified tick back in fall after getting major backlash for verifying a few white supremacists. Continue reading “Twitter will eventually expand its verified service to everyone”
In order to increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, Twitter says that it will be using the more holistic approach and measure the impact of the platform on the world in the days to come. Continue reading “Twitter seeks ideas to make the platform more healthy and civil”
Twitter today introduced key new features that make it easier to save Tweets for later. Twitter is calling this ‘Bookmarks’ an easy way to save Tweets for quick access later. Along with this, the company is also making it easier to share Tweets with its new ‘Share.’ Continue reading “Twitter introduces Bookmarks to let you save Tweets”
At the MWC event, KaiOS Technologies announced that it is partnering with Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA, Airfind, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Doro, HMD Global, Micromax, NXP, Qualcomm to integrate with newest chipsets and offer advanced functionality on lite phones. Furthermore, KaiOS is already supported on high-performance LTE chipset platform Spreadtrum’s SC9820A which is now running on JioPhone.
Twitter today announced that it is limiting how users and apps users and apps can automate tweets in order to disseminate spam, and any such behavior may result in enforcement action. Twitter will not allow posting identical or substantially similar content from multiple accounts. Continue reading “Twitter bans automated bulk identical tweeting and duplicate accounts to fight spam”
Twitter today announced that it will be ending support for its Mac application in the next 30 days in favor of the web client. The app will no longer be available to download from today. The company suggests users use the web client to get the full experience. Continue reading “Twitter is shutting down Twitter for Mac app, support ends in 30 days”
Twitter has revealed financial earnings for Q4 2017 and Fiscal Year 2017 Results. The company has generated a total revenue of $732 million, an increase of 2% year-over-year. The company reports the quarterly GAAP net income at $91 million, with a GAAP net margin of 12% and GAAP diluted EPS of $0.12. Continue reading “Twitter reports first-ever quarterly profit of $91 million in Q4 2017, user base continues at 330 million”
Twitter feed doesn’t show images in full on the news feed, and the company thinks that it can be challenging in rendering a consistent UI experience and the photos more often than not are framed awkwardly. Today Twitter is solving the problem by using neural networks for smart auto-cropping of Images. Continue reading “Twitter is using neural networks for smart auto-cropping of Images”
Twitter currently uses SMS sent through the carrier for two-factor verification, today the company has announced third-party app support for two-factor authentication as well. The company says that SMS or text message based codes are inferior in terms of security and even when you’re traveling places where the carrier connectivity is poor which makes it hard for the SMS to go through Continue reading “Twitter rolls out third-party app support for two-factor authentication as an alternative to SMS”
After announcing a new set of rules last month, Twitter today announced that it would start enforcing updates to the Twitter rules with an aim to reduce hateful and abusive content on the platform. The company also said that it is working on a robust appeal system if in case of any wrong conclusions. Continue reading “Twitter to implement new rules to reduce hateful conduct and abusive behavior”
Twitter is making so many changes to their platform off lately. The company recently has increased the character limit for Tweets from 140 to 280; later it also increased the character limit to 50 for display names. Today the company is adding a new feature making it easy to stitch and post multiple Tweets which now makes it easier to tweetstorm. Twitter had been testing this feature for sometime. Continue reading “Twitter starts rolling out ‘Threads’ feature to let you stitch multiple Tweets”
Launched back in April, Twitter Lite brings features like new web experience, minimized data usage, faster loading speed on slower connections or unreliable mobile networks. The company back in September has made the app available on Google Play Store in the Philippines. Starting today, the app is now available on Google Play Store in 24 more countries. Continue reading “Twitter Lite for Android expands to 24 more countries”
