Articles tagged "Twitter"

Twitter had been in the red for many years, but in 2018 the tables finally turned. The company announced its Q4 and FY 2018 results and they look impressive. During the past 12 months, the platform made $1.2 billion in income, which is incomparable...

A number of confused users buzzed on Reddit when they began to see strange behavior with the Twitter app on Huawei smartphones. The app was seemingly deleting photos immediately after the user saved them to the device using the Twitter app. After...

Today Twitter made a lot of people happy by announcing that its iOS app has revived a long-lost feature: the reverse-chronological feed. It's not enabled by default, but that's a small price to pay in order to bring the service back to what it used...

Back in April 2017 Twitter introduced its data-friendly platform called Twitter Lite. For quite some time it was only available as a bookmark that acted as an app through Google Chrome, but eventually, in December it was launched as a separate...

Twitter has started rolling out the bottom navigation bar to everyone. The change was first deployed in the alpha build a few months back and is now making its way to the stable build. The change requires no update from the Play Store and as long...

Twitter has launched a new bookmarking feature for tweets. The feature was in testing on iOS for some time now but was officially released for both platforms today. Found something historic?Don’t want to forget a joke?Article that you want to...

Twitter has added the ability to create Twitter threads more easily. Users will be able to tap a button while writing their tweet and link a second tweet to it and so forth. Once you are done, you can hit 'Tweet all' and the entire thread will be...

Twitter has launched its Twitter Lite app for Android in 24 countries around the world, including Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nepal, Panama, Peru,...

Today, Twitter has lifted the 140-character limit for its general users to 280. The micro-blogging platform first tested the new limit on a select group of Twitter users, particularly those with large amounts of followers and celebrities. The test...

For the first time since the service debuted back in 2006, Twitter is increasing the character count of its posts (called tweets) from the original 140 characters to 280 characters. The change is being rolled out to a small group of users right now...

For a very long time Twitter's been trying to make its Direct Messages (DM) functionality into a person-to-person messaging system that people will actually use on a daily basis. You know, like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. Given that it hasn't...

If you don’t know what’s going on between Twitter and the United States Government right now, grab some popcorn and take a seat. We’ll try to make it as simple as possible, as there is quite a bit of meat on this bone. Twitter is suing the United...

Twitter launched today a faster data-saving version of its mobile website. That way it becomes the third leading platform with a step towards data-friendly internet after Facebook Lite and YouTube Go. The company announced on its blog...

Twitter's 140 character rule still exists, but the company has been taking some steps to mitigate it somewhat recently. The newest such move comes today, when it's announced that usernames aren't counted towards that 140 character tweet limit...

Twitter has announced the new Explore tab, an Instagram-esque section that should make keeping tab of things happening outside of your timeline easier. Explore combines three of Twitter's existing features; search, trends, and Moments....

We’ve already told you Twitter decided to pull the plug of Vine - its short video platform. And we also told you about its name change - Vine Camera. Now we know the crucial date - it is January 17. Next Tuesday the app will be officially...

Twitter announced that a new feature is coming to the popular livestreaming app Periscope. Users will soon be able to stream live video in 360-degree glory. Starting today, everyone will be able to view and interact with 360 videos in both Twitter...

Twitter seemingly pulled the plug on Vine back in October, then rumor had it the company was in talks to sell the service. Well, no, and no, apparently. In a blog post Twitter has announced that come January it will be transforming Vine...

Live broadcasting is all the rage these days. Facebook's doing it (and pushing it a lot), Instagram has recently added the capability too, and now it's Twitter's turn. Technically this isn't Twitter's first foray into live streams by its users, but...

After years of requests from users, Twitter has finally added keyword muting. This functionality won't be new to anyone using third party Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck or Tweetbot, but should prove useful to the millions of users who use the...