Twitter is today releasing a new feature called “Happening Now” aimed to make its service more accessible to newcomers by highlighting groups of tweets about a topic, beginning with sports, before expanding to other areas like entertainment and breaking news. If this sounds similar to Twitter’s existing Moments feature….well, it is. Moments, too, offers a way to learn… Read Moretweets
Twitter is today releasing a new feature called “Happening Now” aimed to make its service more accessible to newcomers by highlighting groups of tweets about a topic, beginning with sports, before expanding to other areas like entertainment and breaking news. If this sounds similar to Twitter’s existing Moments feature….well, it is. Moments, too, offers a way to learn… Read More Twitter confirmed it’s planning to launch a bookmarking feature to save tweets for later reading. The addition will help users keep a separate list of items they want to refer back to, instead of using the heart (aka “favorite”) button, which can indicate more of a “like” – similar to the “thumbs up” button on Facebook. The feature’s… Read MoreTwitter will launch a bookmarking tool in the near future
Nearly a year ago, Twitter announced it would begin distancing itself from the requirement that all tweets could only contain 140 characters by no longer counting some things – like media attachments or @ replies towards the character count. However, it didn’t begin testing the change with @ replies until last fall. Today, Twitter says this change to replies is rolling out to all… Read MoreTwitter stops counting @ Replies towards its 140 characters on ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is unprecedented in a lot more ways than could be listed in 140-characters. But his prolific and unpredictable use of Twitter is one difference that marks him out from presidents past… Read MoreThe risky business of Trump the twittering president
So-called fake news has real consequences and everyone in the U.S. keeps learning that the hard way. Not just executives at social networks like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter. Or disgruntled and brilliant Weather Channel meteorologists. Driven by misinformation masquerading as news, in the latest tragic incident, a gunman opened fire in a kid-friendly Washington D.C. pizzeria called Comet… Read MoreTrump fires a member of his transition team for tweeting ...
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Twitter Unveils Big New Changes to Prove the Fun Ain’t ...
You get 140 characters for your words. Everything else is Twitter's problem now. The post Twitter Unveils Big New Changes to Prove the Fun Ain't Gone appeared first on WIRED.
Twitter Unveils Big New Changes to Prove the Fun Ain’t ...
I’ve been told by insiders at Twitter that “nothing is sacred” when it comes to making Twitter “easier to use” and ready to onboard the next few hundred million users that Twitter needs to be a powerhouse in media. The latest tweaks and horsing around have to do with the order of tweets you see in your timeline.
The hallmark of Twitter has been the reverse… Read MoreTwitter Is Monkeying Around With The Order Of Tweets In ...
I’ve been told by insiders at Twitter that “nothing is sacred” when it comes to making Twitter “easier to use” and ready to onboard the next few hundred million users that Twitter needs to be a powerhouse in media. The latest tweaks and horsing around have to do with the order of tweets you see in your timeline.
The hallmark of Twitter has been the reverse… Read MoreTwitter Is Monkeying Around With The Order Of Tweets In ...
Tacos. Emojis. Tacos + Emojis. That’s what Taco Bell rolled out to Twitter yesterday. They called it the “#TacoEmojiEngine.” What's #TacoEmojiEngine? Tweet us a + any other emoji to find out. pic.twitter.com/tioahCA0WC — Taco Bell (@tacobell) November 9, 2015 What the hell is it and what is the point? I set to find out, tweeting along the way. Basically,… Read More