Tag: Twitter
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Twitter Recap Feature Arriving Soon
Twitter is rolling out a new ‘recap’ feature called While You Were Away, which in a nutshell highlights and places the most popular Tweets from your friends at the top of your timeline when you log back in. If Tweets are your poison, and you simply can’t be without those valuable shoutouts from friends, the…
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Twitter launches new Instagram Fighting Photo Filters for iOS and Android App
Twitter are looking to take on Instagram at its own game by offering a new update to the iOS and Android Apps that will see a new array of photo filters added to images. The feature will offer many similar styles to the Rival (and Facebook Owned) Instagram. Users on iOS and Android smartphones (and…
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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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Twitter brings back URLS to Direct messaging!
Twitter has performed a minor update to its service, which has reintroduced the ability to send full URL’s via the Direct Message feature, once again. Twitter previously had the feature, but some time ago it was removed, with many users raising this as an issue. Well, the good news is that Twitter users can now send…
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Nokia May Be Building New Android Phone
Nokia’s mobile division was recently bought up by Microsoft, the massive company holding the rights to Nokia’s name and branding on any and all smartphones produced under the partnership for the years up to 2016 – nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that Nokia are not able to go it alone with a smartphone which doesn’t necessarily…
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Xbox One November Update Detailed
Details of the next Xbox One update have emerged with the focus on new customisation for the dashboard and social sharing features for TV and gaming. Once again drawing from Xbox One gamer’s most wanted inclusions the November update will introduce Custom Backgrounds allowing each user / account holder an individual background for their dashboard…
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UK Internet Trolls Could Face 2 Years In Jail
After several celebrities have been targeted by angry online commenters following their controversial comments on serious subjects such as sexual assaults, such as Chloe Madeley, the daughter of former TV hosts Richard and Judy, the government and lawmakers are considering increasing the sentence for posting ultra-venomous online comments, The Daily Mail is reporting. Of course,…
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Twitter To Get More Musical With Audio Cards
After Twitter’s rumoured attempt to buy SoundCloud never happened, the social networking site has decided to partner up with the music sharing network instead. Twitter’s new Audio Cards feature combines forces with SoundCloud as well as iTunes, meaning that these new cards will appear both on your Twitter dashboard as well as on the two…
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ESA To GamerGate: Threats Must End
Gif Credit: The Mirror Political tirades are commonplace online – it’s just another thing that many internet users have to deal with, especially with the rise of internet activism, which has found its voice among the young and the impressionable online. Places like Tumblr are alive with political debate, and though many of these internet communities…
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Twitter Suing US Govt. Over Data Requests
The internet is becoming more and more entangled with government snooping and government data requests than ever before, with major companies such as Google and Microsoft being asked to hand over sensitive personal information about or created by people suspected of crimes or other misdemeanour’s. However, back in January both Microsoft and Google won a…
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FB Messenger May Soon Include Payments
There has been a lot of rumor around Facebook lately relating to the social network possibly including some sort of payment service. First and foremost was the hiring of former Paypal president David Marcus as the new head of Facebook Messenger. Marcus was snapped up by Facebook in June, and since his employment began all…
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EE Helpline Allows Paid Queue Jumping
EE is one of the fastest expanding mobile networks in the UK, as well as the most complained about. Ofcom officially named the network as the most complained about in a recent report, apparently 0.12 customers out of every 1000 who use EE have complained to the regulatory body about the network’s service practices. Many…