Tag: Twitter
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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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New Pebble Smartwatch to Be Announced Tomorrow?
The company behind Kickstarter phenomenon Pebble is teasing something on Twitter and has launched a website so that smartwatch fans can register to be first to find out what it’s all about tomorrow (Tuesday 24th May) at 10AM EDT (2PM GMT). The original Pebble was released around four years ago after obliterating its crowd-funding goal…
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Madeon Composing Music for New Sonic Game?
In our second bite of Sonic the Hedgehog news (yes, we had to split the news into two) – it’s been hinted that French electro pop maestro Madeon may be supplying the soundtrack to a brand new game. Madeon is the creative alias of 21-year old Hugo Pierre Leclercq whose superb live mash-up ‘Pop Culture’…
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Charming Xbox Tweet Proves Love Knows No Console
Its Friday, we’re winding down for the weekend and we think that’s a good enough reason to feel happy. But we spotted something on our morning Twitter scan that we just had to share and which we thought would give you even more of a smile – especially if you’re an avid console gamer! The…
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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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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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Expendables Star Jason Statham Recruited for App Game
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Rising Hollywood action star Jason Statham has been recruited to appear in a mobile game called Sniper X: Kill Confirmed. Glu Mobile, which recently brought the Terminator: Genisys app game to cinemas, has developed the free-to-play app game which is due for global release on respective app stores for Android and iOS devices in the…
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Tesco Self-Checkout Voice Swapped from ‘Irritating’ Female to ‘Friendlier’ Male
UK supermarket chain Tesco has begun replacing the female voice used on its self-service checkouts with a male voice sparking a sexism row on Twitter. The female voice, recently identified as former Eastenders actress Helena Breck, has been used in Tesco stores at the self checkout for over ten years now and is infamous for…
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Star Wars at SDCC – Get the New App and a Lightsaber Emoji for Twitter Now!
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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…