Saudi Arabia may try to end anonymity for Twitter users in the country by limiting access to the site to people who register their identification documents, the Arab News daily reported on Saturday. ...
03:32 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Exactly seven years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 21, 2013
This was the third year running that the microblogging site published its top Twitter trends, offering a barometer to assess the biggest events in social media. ...
01:40 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting in six languages from his own personal handle @Pontifex on December 12. ...
05:23 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: While it was always possible to email a tweet, but not directly from Twitter. Now Twitter has added a new feature that will let users to email tweets directly from the Twitter message stream itself. Twitter also announced improved Android and iPhone apps and also enhancements to Twitter search. The new ability to email a Tweet directly from twitter.com will roll out to all Twitter users in a...
10:57 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Vatican City: He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world's celebrities, leaders and ordinary folk. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi made the announcement Thursday, saying details about Benedict's handle and other information will come when the Vatican officially launches the account, perhaps before the end of the year. The 85-year-old Benedict sent his first...
07:49 AM, Nov 09, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter says it mistakenly reset the passwords of some users as part of a routine security check-up. Thursday's mix-up triggered warnings on technology blogs and in tweets that the online messaging service had been attacked by computer hackers. Twitter sought to clear up the confusion with a post on its website a few hours after it sent out emails alerting some users that their accounts had been compromised....
07:44 AM, Nov 09, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter users flocked to the micro-messaging network this week as Hurricane Sandy swept through the eastern US seaboard, sending more than 20 million tweets about the storm between Saturday and Thursday, the company said. This far exceeds the 13.7 million tweets sent during the Super Bowl in February, typically the largest media event of the year. Founded in 2006, Twitter has sought to position itself as a "second...
02:58 PM, Nov 03, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter will soon roll out a free tool for users to handpick and publish selections of tweets, reflecting the company's commitment to remain a neutral, interactive platform rather than become a media company, CEO Dick Costolo said on Friday. The new tool will allow users, including journalists, to manually curate and display tweets to accompany breaking news events. "We've known for a long time that for events in...
11:35 AM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: Apparently inspired by the cover image on the Facebook timeline, Twitter has also introduced an header photo to Twitter user profiles. The new header photo will be visible on profiles on the Twitter website as well as the iPad, iPhone and Android apps. On the iPhone, Android and iPad, Twitter has also added the photo stream below the user's most recent tweets. The microblogging leader has also announced...
07:03 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New York: A Turkish couple has shown that they need far less than 140 characters to express eternal love for each other, after exchanging wedding vows via Twitter on their iPads. Cengizhan Celik, the Groom, and his bride Candan Canik got married by tweeting the Turkish word "Evet," or "Yes," on their iPads. Their officiant Mustafa Kara, a local mayor, had prompted them before to say "I do" with a...
03:35 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New York: Twitter Inc will begin allowing advertisers to directly target users based on the interests they reveal in their tweets, the social media company said Thursday. No longer content to be a "dumb" bulletin board, with 400 million micro-messages posted daily, Twitter has moved to a strategy of actively sifting through what each user is reading and tweeting in order to discern every individual's interests. Founded in 2006, Twitter...
02:03 PM, Aug 31, 2012
San Francisco: In a move to regulate how users access its microblogging service, Twitter announced new restrictions that sternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps. While the move is not expected to immediately affect how current Twitter users across the world access the service, the new rules will likely nudge new users toward Twitter's own apps while slowly ushering the demise of popular third-party clients like Tweetbot. Twitter,...
12:32 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New York: The microblogging site Twitter has been so abuzz about NBC's tape-delayed coverage of the Olympics that the #nbcfail hashtag was created last week as a way to consolidate criticism of the network. This week, when Twitter executives suspended the account of one of NBC's most ardent critics, a Los Angeles-based reporter for The Independent, the twitterverse turned its ire on Twitter, which was quickly forced to apologize for...
12:09 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: If you did not know that death stared you in the face, what would be the last message you would send out to the world? Would it be mundane and impersonal? Last tweets of celebrities have assumed the same status as the last words before death. They tell a poignant story and offer a glimpse into the minds of the people who posted them just before their death....
08:44 AM, Jul 25, 2012
Washington: After having charmed revolutionaries during the Arab spring uprising as an effective tool of communication, Twitter now appears to have caught the fancy of porn stars who are using it for personal branding through direct interaction with fans. Once relegated to sleazy red-light districts and the darker corners of the internet, porn stars are now gaining following in a surprising place: Twitter, CNN reported. According to Dan Miller, managing...
12:04 PM, Jul 21, 2012
San Francisco: Is Twitter a technology platform, a media company - or both? With Twitter's recent moves pointing toward "media company," there is a growing concern among technologists that a trend for greater content control will compromise both innovation and Twitter's future in favor of short-term profits. The days of fledging start-up are gone for six-year-old Twitter, which is now a major player in the big battles shaping the future...
06:56 AM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter is making a number of changes to its service. It has launched new apps for Android and iPhone, enhanced search, improved notifications, introduced expanded tweets and also got a new logo. Amidst this flurry of additions and improvements one long running Twitter feature has suddenly gone missing - the embeddable widgets. Twitter is now redirecting users from its widgets pages to its logo and brand page. While...
07:58 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Warsaw: Twitter says its users fired off more than 15,000 Tweets per second when Spain made its fourth goal in Sunday's European Championship final, setting a new sports-related record on the social networking site. The surge in tweets came just weeks before the Olympics Games in London are expected to bring another unprecedented surge of activity by sports fans on social networking sites. Twitter says total global traffic on its...
07:02 PM, Jul 02, 2012
San Francisco: Two service outages within the course of several hours rocked microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday, as users worldwide reported significant down-time and slow service across both Twitter's website and mobile applications. Amid speculation that Twitter had been crippled by a hacker attack, the San Francisco-based company blamed the outage - one of its most severe episodes in recent months - on a "cascading bug" in one of its...
11:24 AM, Jun 22, 2012
