Twitter Now Forces You to Use its Own Image Service in its Mobile Apps
We knew it was coming, but with the release of its new iOS apps earlier today, Twitter has confirmed that it has dropped the option allowing users to select a…
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Twitter Now Forces You to Use its Own Image Service in its Mobile Apps
Twitter's new iPad App Ditches the Sidebar, Brings Fresh Profile Views
Earlier today, Twitter pushed live new updates for its iPad and iPhone apps, launching version 5.0 and refreshing the user interface, introducing fresh profile views, new photo streams and completely…
Our Guide to Twitter's Language
The beauty and challenge of Twitter is stuffing your most sophisticated thoughts and feelings into a measly 140 characters (or less). Unfortunately, our traditional methods of communication have proven to…
Twitter Users Mainly Care That the Apple iPhone 5 is Thin
Thin is in. When Apple announced the iPhone 5 this week, the technology community predictably went haywire. One of the best ways to measure the level of craziness is of…
Twitter Strengthens its Security Team, Hires of iOS Hacker Charlie Miller
In an attempt to make its products and services more secure, Twitter has hired iPhone hacker and mobile security expert Charlie Miller, who will start his first day with the…
Commun.it Launches Business CRM Service For Twitter
Today sees the launch of Commun.it, a brand new CRM service for Twitter that enables marketers and customer service reps to “build and nurture” relationships in a business context, by…
Collins Adds BBM, Facebook, FaceTime, IM, SMS to Dictionary
Research In Motion (RIM) today announced that the short form of BlackBerry Messenger, BBM, has been added to the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary. A closer look shows…
Twitter Improves Geo-Targeting for Promoted Tweets
Twitter has improved its geo-targeting options for Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts, the company announced on its Advertising blog. As from today, marketers can focus on users that are based…
Unable To Meet Twitter's New API Rules, Twimbow Folds
Twimbow, a Web application that helps social network users organize and communicate with their friends with lots of pretty colors, is calling it a day. The startup says it is…
Twitter Chat Extension Bonfire.im to be Extinguished on September 26
Earlier in the year, we waxed lyrical about a new Twitter chat service called Bonfire, a browser extension that integrates a real-time chat service into the official Twitter website. While…
Seattle Artist Sues Twitter For Hosting Copyrighted Photos
Seattle-based photographer, writer and artist Christopher Boffoli – pretty well known for his awesome Big Appetites series of quirky photographs of miniature everyday scenes – yesterday filed suit against social…
Twitter and Etsy Launch 'Engineer Exchange' to Learn From Each Other
Twitter and Etsy are teaming up on a joint project but, rather than a new type of integration or product, the duo are pooling their collective brains and starting an…
Pinterest Hacked Accounts Spill Spam Onto Facebook, Twitter
Pinterest users are taking to Facebook and Twitter to complain about their hacked accounts, in what appears to be yet another round of spammers attacking the pinboard-style photo sharing site….
Twitter Lets iOS 6, Android 4.x Users Upload Images From Mobile Site
In a further move away from third-party clients, Twitter has begun integrating image uploads on its mobile website, providing yet another reason (in its eyes) for a user to choose…
App.net Has 20,000 Users; 250 Account For Half The Posts
App.net, the subscription-based, ad-free Twitter alternative that is now fully funded and ready for extensive testing (you can find TNW’s profile here), is off to a relatively sluggish start. Diego…
