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Twitter – Cutting Down The Vines
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The popular vlogging app Vine is soon to be an internet museum piece. Twitter have announced that due to a slump in user base they will be closing the app down. Originally, Vine was an app that could be downloaded from iTunes and became quite popular. Twitter bought the app in 2012 for a mere…
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Ghostbusters Actress Leslie Jones Exits Twitter After Racist Abuse
Leslie Jones, black female stand-up comedian and one of the actresses in the recently released Ghostbusters revival film has exited Twitter after receiving a terrible torrent of racial abuse – bringing mainstream attention to an issue that is rife on social networking. Yesterday Jones sent out a final tweet from her account @Lesdoggg which read…
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Twitter Sued For Altering Direct Messages
Lawsuits are in general quite common in the tech industry. We often see phone companies battling out their grudges in the courtroom over the slightest of things. However, In today’s lawsuit there is somewhat of a more personal gripe – with the plaintiff Wilford Raney of the state of Texas, filing the suit through Edelson…
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Star Wars at SDCC – Get the New App and a Lightsaber Emoji for Twitter Now!
Star Wars was one of the dominating forces at this year’s San Diego Comic-con with members of the original cast in attendance including Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and even Harrison Ford made a rare convention appearance to celebrate the Saga and the upcoming Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Among the Star Wars highlights at…
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Director Justin Lin reveals Star Trek Beyond title on Twitter
We love Star Trek. There’s no doubt at all that it has inspired and changed the tech landscape as well as society as a whole in its near fifty year history, and many of the devices we write about here at the Gadget Helpline might not be quite as awesome as they are without the…
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Twitter’s New Autoplay for Videos Brings the Noise
If you’re a regular Twitter user you’ve probably noticed that the social network / micro-blogging site has recently been trying out a few new things – some helpful, some really not helpful at all. Unfortunately most mobile users will want to file its latest tweak under the latter. This week Twitter announced that (like Facebook…
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ASUS Twitter Trolls Apple Over ‘iBug’
Taiwanese tech company ASUS has taken to Twitter to poke fun at Apple’s recent iMessage plight. As we’ve reported, Apple iPhone users have been experiencing unexpected shutdown of their devices after receiving a text containing a specific series of characters to their message inbox. Also See: How To (Temporarily) Fix the Apple iPhone Message Bug…
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Awaken Your Star Wars Emoji on Twitter – How to Get Them Now!
To mark Star Wars Celebration and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer which went live yesterday, Twitter in partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm will launch a selection of highly tweetable character icons/emoji. These can be used throughout the festivities and up to the release of the film with the first three characters available right now.…
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Twitter Reveals Redesigned Homepage for Desktop Users
Brick by brick Twitter has been rebuilding its social networking experience in a number of ways, from new methods of navigating the tweet feed and viewing media on mobiles to showing us what we might have missed since our last log in. The latest change will be evident even before logging onto Twitter as they’ve started rolling…
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Twitter Adds Feature Explaining Hashtags
Twitter hashtags can get pretty obscure – the text limit and acronyms often leave users confused as just to what the topic is about. Often a quick Google search is in order, but sometimes you want to hear what the company itself has to say about a particular hashtag. Twitter’s now defunct Discover tab previously…
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Twitter Introduces New Profiles for Android Users
Twitter has recently been tweaking its Android app to make it work more naturally with smartphone and tablet gestures and now this can be noticed on user profile pages which have received quite a significant make-over. Utilising the side swipe gesture on the Android’s touchscreen (which Twitter only recently seems to have discovered) we can…
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Twitter for Android updates to include “While you were away”
The Twitter app for Android has now been updated to include a “While you were away” feature. The update gathers what the folks at Twitter feel to be the most important tweets that you may have missed from the accounts you follow since you last signed in, based on ‘engagement and other factors’. It then…