Twitter is currently working on an in-app feature that will allow users to discover tweets based on location. Twitter has just been testing the feature within the company and has not revealed the full potential of the app. However, this new discovery feature would be a big step forward for the social media app. Twitter’s ...
Comedy Central will be using Twitter and Vine to produce the first online comedy festival. Starting April 29, the 5 day long online comedy festival will begin featuring celebrities like Carl Reiner, Amy Schumer, Paul Feig, Judd Apatow, and Mel Brooks. Over 50 comedians will be contributing to the festival using the hashtag #ComedyFest. This ...
The software development company We Are Hunted was acquired by Twitter late in 2012. Founded by Stephen Phillips, Richard Slatter and Michael Doherty, We Are Hunted created internet search technology that finds new music trending on web sites and search engines. The acquisition was kept secret until early last week when We Are Hunted announced the deal ...
Twitter caused some confusion amongst users Monday when the tag #nowthatchersdead started trending. Most people were aware that this was in reference to the passing of Britain’s first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher; “Now Thatcher’s dead”. However, because of the way Thatcher can be broken apart, some thought the tag meant, “Now that Cher’s dead”. ...
Until now we were able only to search tweets no older than a week. Twitter announced today the plan to enable people to search old tweets. Not all the tweets will be kept for the beginning; for the moment those to be kept will be determined by clicks, retweets and other factors, according to the ...
It seems like law enforcement officials have always had sort of a rough time of things, probably from the very beginning of the profession. Most people tend to have an automatic reaction to seeing or interacting with police, and the general reaction usually tends to fall along the lines of either fear or anger. This, ...
Twitter became more than just a social network, it is an indispensable hub of information and updates about Hurricane Sandy and its devastating effects to the East Coast of the U.S. Because in many cases emergency management authorities cannot send emergency alerts through the regular outlets that need electricity, they are increasingly using social media to let everybody know about ...
Over 1 billion people around the world are actively using Facebook, and many of those as well as millions of more people are using the several other popular Social Media platforms like Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram on a daily basis as well. Just like exchanging information by any other means, such as by email ...
It is the time for a new change at Twitter. According to CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo, the social network will be “rebuilt [Twitter] for iPad from the ground up to make it fast, beautiful and easy to use“. He appeared at the NBC’s Today show to make the statement. Now Today TV show ...
Mitchelle Obama attended the Democratic National Convention last night, as a speaker, and she put the Democrats into the driver’s seat with her speech. There were 28,003 tweets-per-minute at its peak, nearly double the 14,289 mark reached by Mitt Romney‘s acceptance speech at the Republican convention last week. During the first night of the ...
This new project, “Twitter heatmap” or Twitter F-Bombs was created to show a map of specific tweets distributed in time and until now it has tracked these two phrases in 462 locations within United States: “Good morning” and “F*** you”. In order to get enough data for creating the map, Twitter was scanned approximately once ...
Just moments after Twitter announced a new strict set of rules for the Application Programming Interface (API), many engineers and developers began an online protest trying to change Twitter’s new policy. If you want to back up the movement check out #OccupyTwitter hashtag. Many company leaders that have a connection with the Twitter API have responded to the ...
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