Facebook just recently announced that they were adding a buy button to users news feeds and now it seems that Twitter has its own plans to do the same. While the option is not functional just yet, Twitter has been testing its e-commerce capabilities on some users feeds. The button reads, “payments and shipping” and … Read more
Sick of annoying tweets but feel obligated to follow them? Twitter now has a solution that is as easy as pressing a mute button. Twitter has just released a new Mute feature that allows users to control the tweets and updates they receive on their primary feed. When a user is muted, their activity will … Read more
A Twitter campaign for the NYPD has backfired after users took it as an opportunity to post images of police brutality. The New York Police Department decided to run a Twitter campaign in order to open up a new way of communication between the public and law enforcement. “The NYPD is creating new ways to … Read more
Twitter has just announced the start of it’s new mobile app advertising service which has the ability to reach over 1 billion users. The new service allows marketers to purchase ads on Twitter to promote mobile app installs using MoPub, a mobile advertising exchange that was purchased by the microblogging company back in October. MoPub … Read more
Twitter has 974 million users however new statistics have revealed that about 44 percent of them have never tweeted. While Twitter usually remains tight lipped on user statistics, a new report has found that while the social media site has a lot of users and readers, not as many respond or send out their own … Read more
Twitter has been undergoing some serious renovations this last week with the latest addition being interactive, pop-up notifications. Twitter users can expect to see fully interactive pop-up notifications starting from today. The notifications will appear on the lower right corner of the timeline and will allow users to interact with activity on their account. “When … Read more
Turkey’s plan to ban Twitter has backfired with 33 percent more residents signing up to the social media service following the decision. The Turkish government aimed to ban Twitter after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that the service was being utilized to publish audio recordings that implicated Turkey was involved in bribery and corruption. … Read more
To celebrate their 8th birthday, Twitter is opening up it’s archives to allow users to revisit their first ever tweet. Twitter is taking users on walk down memory lane, providing access to the first ever tweets of every single user. By going to first-tweets.com, Tweeters can type in their username and retrieve their very first … Read more
Twitter has just announced that it is releasing a new, fresh look for it’s desktop based version. “We’re now rolling out a refreshed https://twitter.com reflecting the look & feel of our iOS & Android apps,” Twitter announced in a tweet. Twitter wants a uniform look across their web page and app versions and have decided … Read more
Twitter has reversed their blocking policy less than 24 hours after launch due to consumer backlash. Early on Thursday, Twitter updated it’s blocking policy so that members who had been blocked could see the tweets of the blocker and be able to re-tweet and favorite their messages. Twitter said this was done to prevent retaliation … Read more
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