Official Twitter App Goes Universal, iPad Users Go Nuts Tweeting It Up
Wednesday was an exciting day to be an Apple fan, but not so much for iPad users (save for that brief iOS 4.2 preview). All of that changed when the clock struck midnight and Twitter released an update to their official app, bringing universal compatibility. Not so ironically, Twitter users lit up like a Christmas [...]
New Mac Twitter Client Hibari Helps You Remove Justin Bieber, Et Al
While Twitter is a great tool for keeping up with breaking news, product updates and celebrity chatter, the more people you add, the more “noise” that you wind up trying to filter through to get to the stuff you want. Enter Hibari, the new Mac client for Twitter that lets you easily keep your tweet [...]
How-To: Cut Twitter Clutter with Lists
Curate, filter, organize, expand, and follow without following. Yeah, Twitter lists sound pretty Zen. These days, everybody and their cat is on Twitter. (Shout out to @grandmawrinkles, the hairless feline of Real Housewives of New Jersey!) But if you follow every reality-show pet, pro athlete, and hot dog vendor you come across, your main Twitter [...]
Twittelator
Twittelator’s edge among the current crop of unofficial iPad Twitter apps is its large feature set. While most users will be fine with the standard array of tweets from those you follow, mentions, and direct messages, Twittelator also includes a large number of themed channels (like sports and politics), which spotlight top tweeters in several [...]
Top 10 Twitter meltdowns, tirades and tantrums
Don’t let the brevity of microblogging fool you. Twitter provides plenty of room for public displays of bad blood and righteous indignation. After all, character limits can be circumvented and contempt can be condensed. Scott Baio Twitter Scott Baio is 48 … and tweeting! It’s a point perfectly illustrated by sometimes-actor and frequent rage-tweeter Scott [...]
Twitter Toys with Its Own URL Shortener
For the past few months, Twitter has been routing links within Direct Messages through its own link service and wrapping them with a twt.tl URL. By doing so, Twitter has been able to blacklist malicious links, and now the microblogging service wants to extend this functionality to all tweets. Not just for security reasons, Twitter [...]
Twitter Stomps Out Security Bug
More than a few Twitter users on Monday awoke to find that they had no followers when logging into the popular micro-blogging service, though it wasn’t anything they said/wrote. Instead, Twitter temporarily reset all follower/following counts to zero in order to stomp out a bug that allowed users to force others to follow them. “We [...]
Twitter Releases Official Android App, Supports Only 2.1 and Higher
An official Twitter app showed up on the Blackberry platform just a few weeks ago, followed quickly by the acquisition of Tweetie for iPhone. Now Twitter is stamping it’s seal of approval on an official Android app. The bad news is that it’s only compatible with phones running on Android 2.1. So right now, that [...]
Twitter Name Recognition High, Actual Usage Low
Facebook is fond of saying that Twitter is “in the rear-view mirror“, and according to some new survey numbers from Edison Research/Arbitron Internet & Multimedia Study, it might be true. The study shows the massive growth in awareness of Twitter over the last few years, but indicates that very few people actually use it. In [...]
Twitter Scoops Up Cloudhopper for Second Acquisition this Month
In a blog post on Friday, Twitter announced it had acquired Cloudhopper, a small SMS technology company and the second acquisition by the microblogging service so far this month. “Over the last eight months we have been working with a startup called Cloudhopper to become one of the highest volume SMS programs in the world—Twitter [...]
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