Tag: Twitter
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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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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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PS4 Gamers Invited to Tweet their Update Suggestions
Sony is taking a leaf out of Microsoft’s play book by offering PlayStation 4 owners the chance to make suggestions of things they’d like to see in future firmware updates for the console. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios based in Japan, posted from his own account on Twitter inviting gamers to drop a…
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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…
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Samsung Updates Twitter to Mark Arrival The Next Galaxy
A week after the press invites went out for the Samsung Unpacked event on March the 1st the company’s Twitter presence for its mobile division has received a newly uniformed revamp, all in black and heralding “The Next Galaxy”. Even the name on the @SamsungMobile Twitter has been changed to TheNextGalaxy and #TheNextGalaxy hashtag has…
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Twitter Adds Swipe to Dismiss to Remove Unwanted Pics
It appears that a handful of Twitter app users are now getting to try a new swipe feature for getting rid of unwanted images from the Twitter feed. As standard a single tap on the touch screen of your Android or iOS device would expand to view fully and minimize a picture after viewing, allowing only…
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Twitter Reports New Raise In Data Requests
Ever since 2012, microblogging social media site twitter has been releasing transparency reports on how many requests governments and law enforcement agencies have made to the site in order to obtain data on users posting on the social network. the reports have been going up and up for a while now, as social media is…
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Leaked CEO Memo Confirms Twitter ‘Suck’ at Controlling Trolls
A harshly worded memo from Twitter’s CEO confirms that the company has lost complete control over the abuse shared over the micro-blogging network. Not intended for public eyes but obtained and shared by The Verge, the internal note from Dick Costolo (@dickc) has the CEO blaming himself for the loss of users due to the…
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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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Twitter unveils new group Direct Messages and video sharing features
While I’m sure we can all agree, Twitter is very much a public social media platform, but saying that it has always had the ability to allow users to send private messages to each other if they wish – also known as Direct Messaging. Well today, Twitter has announced a couple new features which are likely…
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Facebook & Instagram Down: Lizard Squad Not Responsible
Facebook, Instagram and a number of other social services all mysterious dropped out of action around the same time this morning (approx. 6am UK time) causing widespread panic across the internet. Many of those whose online social life had been temporarily disrupted for up to an hour took to Twitter (which was thankfully not affected)…