Posts in Twitter News

By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in Twitter News

Vine is a new and user friendly iPhone app that allows you to share life's happenings through video. As I was scrolling across my Instagram feed yesterday, I noticed a friend of mine posted a screenshot of the Vine app. Shortly after, I had to download and see what it had to offer. There is a substantial amount of popular video sharing apps available for smartphones currently, and I thought Vine would be another similar app. Some of these trending iPhone/Android apps include: Viddy, Keek and Cinemagram. W... read more.

• January 30, 2013
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By Adam Smith, Posted in Twitter News

The Death of a Legend Although her death occurred a few days ago, we are just recently learning how news of Whitney Houston's death spread. As with many topics that spread like wildfire throughout the world, Houston's death advanced via social media, especially Twitter. One very intriguing angle of all of this widespread reach is that it was announced on Twitter for the first time by @BarBeeBritt, 55 minutes before the Associated Press announced it. Here is a timeline of the events that resulted that day:... read more.

• February 15, 2012
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By Yfran Garcia, Posted in Twitter News

When Twitter announced that it would be getting a makeover this past December, small businesses were excited about the prospect of being able to create their own brand pages. Although it will take some time before small businesses can create their own pages, HP and Intel will be using their pages to host Twitter's first ever live concert. According to Mashable, Rob Pietsch, director of West Coast sales for Twitter, had this to say about the project: We have offered streaming on the site before, but this... read more.

• January 11, 2012
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By Yfran Garcia, Posted in Twitter News

The New Year is rolling in, and with Facebook dominating the headlines as of late, Twitter has been winning back some of the limelight. The announcement that Twitter would be moving into a bigger, Art Deco-era headquarters in San Francisco was complimented by the launch of the microblogging service's redesign. Twitter's redesign also carries some much needed features. In addition to the website, the redesign will take place on Twitter's iOS and android apps, as well as Twitter's social aggregator, TweetD... read more.

• December 09, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Twitter News

It cannot be disputed: over the past year, Twitter has grown at an insane rate. In the process, many businesses and websites have jumped on board. Virtually every article one can read online today features a Tweet button, letting viewers share the article on their Twitter account. There has always been, however, a rather large hole in this form of integration: webmasters and website owners have never been given the tools to be able to quantize just how effective this sharing really is. Until now. On Tues... read more.

• September 14, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Twitter News

On Thursday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo met with tech reporters for a chat he dubbed Twitter's "state of the union." Predictably, the focus of the speech was the rapid growth of the company. Here's what the CEO had to say. First, Costolo soaked reporters with a bevy of statistics that illustrate that Twitter is, in his words, "super healthy." The social network hosts 230 million tweets every day and roughly one billion every five days. Last week, users set a record by sending 8,900 tweets per second. Twitter... read more.

• September 09, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Twitter News

At the MTV VMAs on Sunday night, Beyonce Knowles announced to the world that her and husband Jay-Z are having a child. Then, Twitter exploded. MTV first broke the news with its Tweet, "OMG Beyonce just made a huge announcement on the #vma carpet! #baby!!!!!" Beyonce took it one step further during her performance, unzipping her vest and rubbing her stomach at the end of "Love on Top." With that, the news was officially broken to the world: Beyonce is pregnant. Twitter, thanks to the announcement, then m... read more.

• August 31, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Twitter News

Twitter is no longer just a place for 140 characters of text. On Monday, Twitter announced that it has started rolling out "recent images" galleries to users' profiles. Now, upon visiting a user's Twitter page, viewers will see four images in the top of the right sidebar, under the user's statistics. Next to these four images is a "see all" button, which, if clicked, directs viewers to a page with expandable thumbnails of the user's last 100 uploaded photos. See the photos below for reference (no matter wh... read more.

• August 24, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Twitter News

Struggling to decide who to follow on Twitter? Check out Twtrland, a new service that can provide analytics on any Twitter page. Simply go to twtrland.com and type in the handle of the Twitter user you want to analyze in the search bar at the top. If this is the first time the profile has been analyzed, it will take about one minute for their page to show up; if it has been done before, it will pop up quickly. From there, you can see a host of relevant information on the Twitter user you're analyzing. Belo... read more.

• August 12, 2011
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By Mary Manzo, Posted in Twitter News

    The social networking platform, Twitter, announced on their blog yesterday that they will be rolling out two new functionalities to offer users a more personalized and information driven experience.  The new features will "help you discover more on Twitter." One feature is the added tab with your @username. This will allow you to narrow down activity that is related to you and your actions on Twitter. Users will be able to see their latest tweets that have been retweeted by others... read more.

• August 11, 2011
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