Category: Twitter
Twitter is launching “instant timeline” for new users
Can't decide who to follow? Then don't worry, Twitter is planning to figure it out for you. One of the biggest challenges for Twitter as a company is the "on boarding" process - in other words, how you get people to not only sign up to have their own account, but then make them want…
Twitter launches group direct messaging and built-in videos
Watch out WhatsApp and BBM - Twitter is gunning for you. The company has just launched a new group DM feature - meaning that you can now privately message groups of people with both text and pictures. It isn't immediately clear if direct messages are also limited to 140 characters - but the implication is…
Tweetbot for Mac taken down after it hits user limit as Twitter continues to try to kill Twitter
Utterly maddening news this afternoon as it has emerged that desktop Twitter client Tweetbot for Mac has been pulled from the Mac app store after it hit the limit Twitter allows for the maximum number of users. According to The Guardian, Twitter had previously set a maximum limit on the number of users that third…
The Digest: Why Netflix won’t block VPN users… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Why Netflix won't block VPN users – it has too many of them | The Guardian "More than 30 million Netflix users live in countries where the service is unavailable without the use of location-masking software, giving the company a hefty financial incentive not to crack down on members who use the technological…
Twitter is getting native video functionality
Okay, so maybe we got ahead of ourselves last October, but it really does seem now that Twitter's video product should be launching soon. According to The Drum, users will be able to upload videos of up to ten minutes in length - and it will support MP4 and MOV uploads. Only paid up Twitter…
Twitter starts testing “while you were away” Facebook-newsfeed style feature
Twitter has started testing a new feature which will sort through your tweets since the last time you checked Twitter, and display the most important/relevant ones, without you having to scroll through the whole lot. The news comes via many Twitter users, who have started seeing the section appearing in their app. OMG, it appears…
The Digest: Sony hack an ‘inside job’… and 3 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Sony hack: New evidence points to inside job, say security experts | The Hollywood Reporter "Despite the FBI declaring that North Korea was behind the devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, security experts continue to believe that the hack was an inside job. Security firm Norse claims it has evidence that shows…
The Digest: Gmail blocked in China… and 5 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Google’s Gmail blocked in China | The Guardian "Google’s Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world’s biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the country’s 'great firewall' was to blame. Large numbers of Gmail web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, according to GreatFire.org, a…
Sony fails to understand how the world works, and threatens Twitter for hosting links to stolen emails
Poor Sony - the hacking drama might not be over yet. Fresh from losing a tonne of its data and upsetting Kim Jong Un, the company could be about to make another misstep in its handling of the situation. According to Motherboard, the company has sent some threatening lawyers' letters to Twitter because users have…
The Digest: Apple ‘failing to protect workers’… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers' | BBC News "Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken. It found standards on workers' hours, ID…
