Tag: tweets
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The Best of Tinder vs Vanity Fair
The creators of the Tinder dating app for Android and iOS have struck back at glossy gossip mag Vanity Fair on Twitter after an article suggested the app was nothing more than a ‘hook-up’ tool and that 30% of its registered users are actually already married. Tinder has targeted the rag in a defensive tweet…
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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…
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Twitter Posts To Return to Google Search
Twitter posts haven’t been seen on Google’s search results page for a while now. Back in 2011, the search engine withdrew the feature where Tweets showed up on results pages due to an agreement between Google and Twitter expiring. During the first half of 2015 Tweets will make a comeback, appearing alongside links in a special…
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New Reusable SpaceX Rocket To Use Fins
Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to announce a new set of innovations by his company SpaceX which will help their reusable rockets navigate safely to their targets on the ground after delivering their payloads into orbit. The new systems include special ‘x-wing’ flight fins to stabilise and control the descent of the SpaceX Falcon…
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Loads of Popular Apps Coming to Xbox One and 360
A new selection of the most popular and user-requested apps are soon to arrive on the Xbox One at the end of the year. The console has suffered from the lack of a broader app selection of late, but Microsoft have shifted their sights onto the problem and hopefully this upcoming new selection has all…
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Twitter’s new Facebook like layout is now live – How to get it?
Following the announcement of a redesigned layout for Twitter, which looks considerably inspired by fellow social network Facebook, the new look is now available to all users. You can view your personal page with less clutter and more generous spacing and also redecorate your Twitter web presence with a cover photo.. sorry.. that’s ‘header’.. simply…
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Twitter Re-designed to look like Facebook?
Recently Twitter announced the roll out of a new design that has made Twitter look a lot more like Facebook. The new features include the addition of larger profile pictures, customised headers and a feature that makes your more popular Tweets appear in a larger font so they stand out on your page. Another feature…
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Beyonce’s & Jay-Z’s latest collaboration helps set new Twitter record
Pop warbler Beyonce’s pregnancy has raised the tweets per second record on social micro-blog site Twitter. The former Child of Destiny debuted her upcoming release at the MTV Video Music Awards last week before 12.4 million viewers, and within minutes the news spread across the social web, helping the newest collaboration with rapper Jay-Z become…
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Beyonce’s & Jay-Z’s latest collaboration helps set new Twitter record
Pop warbler Beyonce’s pregnancy has raised the tweets per second record on social micro-blog site Twitter. The former Child of Destiny debuted her upcoming release at the MTV Video Music Awards last week before 12.4 million viewers, and within minutes the news spread across the social web, helping the newest collaboration with rapper Jay-Z become…
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New Tweet per second record on Twitter set during Women’s World Cup Final
Micro-blog social site Twitter has celebrated its fifth year in service with a new record for the most tweets sent per second, this during the finals of the Women’s World Cup tournament – with 7,166 counted while the United States fell to Japan in a penalty shoot-out. To say Women’s football isn’t anywhere near as…
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Twitter followers led to believe Bin Laden watched “The IT Crowd” – Telly writer behind hoax
Bin Laden watched “The IT Crowd”? The staggering ability of Twitter to control the minds and imagination of the UK public has never been more evident – as creator of the hit TV programme has proven. Graham Lineham, writer for popular shows including “Father Ted”, planned the hoax when inspiration came from reading a 16 year-old tweetard’s…