Articles tagged "Twitter"

Twitter's 140 character rule still exists, but the company has been taking some steps to mitigate it somewhat recently. The newest such move comes today, when it's announced that usernames aren't counted towards that 140 character tweet limit...

Twitter has announced the new Explore tab, an Instagram-esque section that should make keeping tab of things happening outside of your timeline easier. Explore combines three of Twitter's existing features; search, trends, and Moments....

We’ve already told you Twitter decided to pull the plug of Vine - its short video platform. And we also told you about its name change - Vine Camera. Now we know the crucial date - it is January 17. Next Tuesday the app will be officially...

Twitter announced that a new feature is coming to the popular livestreaming app Periscope. Users will soon be able to stream live video in 360-degree glory. Starting today, everyone will be able to view and interact with 360 videos in both Twitter...

Twitter seemingly pulled the plug on Vine back in October, then rumor had it the company was in talks to sell the service. Well, no, and no, apparently. In a blog post Twitter has announced that come January it will be transforming Vine...

Live broadcasting is all the rage these days. Facebook's doing it (and pushing it a lot), Instagram has recently added the capability too, and now it's Twitter's turn. Technically this isn't Twitter's first foray into live streams by its users, but...

After years of requests from users, Twitter has finally added keyword muting. This functionality won't be new to anyone using third party Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck or Tweetbot, but should prove useful to the millions of users who use the...

Vine was the perfect platform to compliment Twitter. Users could film micro clips within 6 seconds that would loop over and over. And the resulting content is nothing short of Amazing. Many “internet personalities” gained popularity on the platform,...

It is hardly a secret that Twitter hasn't been doing all that wall lately. Which is why, nobody was really surprised when word first got out back in September that the social network was, as the sources put it "largely desirous of a...

According to some unnamed sources cited in a new report, Twitter might be for sale. Not only that, but potential suitors for the ailing social network are said to include Google and Salesforce, among other tech companies. A "formal bid" may be on...

Last week, The Verge reported that twitter was going to roll out an update that would change what makes up the 140-character count. Like clockwork, Twitter has officially announced (via Twitter) that it has indeed begun rolling out these...

ZTE is trying something new this year. The company has already launched a new program called “CSX” with its online fans/community where the online community will think of ideas for a real smartphone/device/accessory that meets the following three...

The modern internet user has a continuously diminishing attention span and Twitter’s 140 character limit attributed to the micro blogging platform's major success. Twitter-owned Vine’s success was attributed by a similar fashion. Creators were able...

The Night Mode feature that first made it to Twitter for Android back in June is now officially out in the iOS app too. This comes after a brief period in which the Night Mode functionality has been available in the recent beta builds for Apple's...

Last month some people started seeing a "Night Mode" toggle in the Twitter for Android app. This came after many have apparently asked for just such a feature that's supposed to make using the app in the dark a lot easier than with its standard...

Twitter-owned Periscope has announced three new features today. First off, you can now embed Periscope live feeds or recordings, but not directly. Instead, whenever you embed a tweet containing a Periscope video, that video will be playable inside...

A few short years ago, the more popular and mainstream social sharing websites like Twitter and Facebook did not support GIFs. GIFs were up and coming and became more widely used as memes and reaction posts. GIFs originated as embeddable moving...

After years of people asking for it, Twitter has finally added a Night mode option in its app. The option has currently only been spotted in the Android version, with iOS availability not yet known. The option appears as a server side...

Stickers are all the rage these days, haven't you heard? Whether on Snapchat or other messaging and communication services, stickers are being used more and more. And Twitter has apparently figured this out as well. So, naturally, it's adding...

So far, Twitter has let you upload videos up to 30 seconds long, while Twitter-owned Vine was all about the six-second looping video. That all changes today, though. From this point on, both services will support longer videos. Just how long, you...