Articles tagged "Twitter"

Here's something for those of you who want to keep reiterating things you've tweeted in the past. From now on, you are able to retweet or quote tweet your own tweets. This has been made official by the social network through a retweet of its own,...

Twitter has finally acknowledged "numerous" Twitter account names and password had been indeed stolen. Twitter promises it has taken immediate action to reset those passwords, so the users should be safe. The breach didn't come from Twitter's...

Thanks to a comprehensive redesign, Twitter's app for Android now finally looks like an Android app. The social network has announced that a new update for its app is now in the process of rolling out on Android through the Google Play Store. When...

Twitter first hinted at its new ad unit idea during CES 2016, but didn't really go into too much detail. Now, a few months later, it seems the social giant is already putting the finishing touches on what it officially calls Promoted Tweet Carousel,...

Ever since day one, Twitter always counted everything within the text box in its 140 character limit. This meant that if you were replying to someone their user names would eat up part of your 140 characters. Similarly, if you included a URL or...

According to reports from 9to5Google, a select number of alpha testers have been testing version 5.112.0-alpha.423 of Twitter for Android which features the new night mode which can automatically switch from a white background-with black text UI to...

In April Facebook basically unveiled that it's going all-in with its new-ish live video broadcasting abilities, giving this feature its own tab in its own app even. And now about a month later, Twitter-owned Periscope is announcing a few new...

Twitter is rolling out an update for its iOS and Android apps that should make using the service a bit easier for the visually impaired. Starting today, users can now add descriptive or alternative text to images that they attach to their...

Popular social networking site is Twitter is celebrating its 10th birthday today. Started on March 21, 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone, the service has since then gone on to be wildly successful and currently has a...

TweetDeck has announce that it will discontinuing the Windows desktop app for TweetDeck. Going forward, Windows users will have to access TweetDeck from their browsers, by visiting tweetdeck.twitter.com. The desktop apps for Windows and OS X...

After releasing the app on Windows 10 desktop last year, Twitter has now brought the app to mobile as well. Twitter for Windows 10 on mobile brings features such as Moments, group messaging, video sharing, and being able to quote tweets,...

Twitter is having a hard time lately especially when its users heard about the upcoming timeline changes. Keen to put this fiasco behind it, Twitter is focused on adding new features to its service. Yesterday the company launched the GIF button,...

According to Twitter's data, over the last year people shared over 100 million GIFs on the social network. And now it's planning to make that even simpler for GIF fans. The company is rolling out a new button across its Android and iOS apps as...

Ever since it launched many years ago, the timeline you see on Twitter has been all about the reverse chronological order - you get the newest tweets at the top. This is set to change, however, following many rumors on the matter. In the past...

Twitter has been experiencing outages for over an hour now, with the homepage reading a rather specific error report. "Something's technically wrong" is our favorite type of statement, though it's good to know that the company is working to fix...

Twitter has added the ability to stream Periscope videos in the iOS app. Periscope broadcasts now come alive within Twitter https://t.co/R346R1lgZb— Periscope (@periscopeco) January 12, 2016 Previously, a user would have to install...

We have been hearing rumors of Twitter considering moving beyond the 140 character limit that has been around pretty much since the inception of the service. Yesterday, CEO Jack Dorsey added further fuel to the fire without confirming...

Starting today, Twitter is bringing its curated news offering to the UK. This is the first time we've seen Twitter Moments making it outside of the US, where it was launched back in October. Moments is a new section that will show up for you both...

People like looking at photos. And specifically, people seem to like staring at photos posted onto Twitter. So the company behind the 140-character service has decided to make the experience of using its website for the purpose of checking out...

If you happen to be an avid Twitter user and often Google things on your mobile then you have most-likely noticed that the search giant can quite conveniently bring up Twitter results for you. The integration happened back in May and until now was...