Recently, Twitter announced a partnership with Americas number one pay TV broadcasting company, Comcast which they hope to propel the world of Social TV. With a new ‘See It’ feature on Twitter, Twitter users will be able to view or record their favorite TV shows. See It Comcast would like... Read more

Twitter have said recently it will help users receive special alerts from government agencies and aid agencies during emergencies. Users who sign up for this service will receive smartphone notifications via the Twitter app as well as SMS text messages, assuming they agree to handover their cell phone numbers, from... Read more

Social media giant Twitter is very much mainstream in most people’s lives today and has come to chronicle everything from world events to personal opinions.  On Thursday this week it announced that it intends to make its stock market debut.  The filing was revealed in a tweet on the company’s... Read more

School is back, no kids really it is! Well for social media development students it is anyway.  Everybody’s favourite micro-blogging website recently announced the opening of Twitter University.  The program is designed for engineers to get world-class technical training and gain the abilities to teach the skills which they have... Read more

Social media giant, Twitter, is adding a few nifty new features and will clarify a few of its rules in response to recent rape threats, bomb threats, and other general abuses that has hit the site, of recent times. Specifically involving European authors, journalists and Members of Parliament.  Albeit, do... Read more

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC lost a red panda, aptly named Rusty, over the weekend. To find him the zoo turned to social media, namely Twitter for help. Poor Rusty had only been a resident at the zoo for three weeks and was acquired as a breeding partner... Read more

Twitter co founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have launched a joint publishing application called Medium, which allows multiple people to submit photos and text to Pinterest-style content hubs.  It has been launched, ironically enough, by the San Francisco based The Obvious Corporation founded by Williams and Stone. How it... Read more

A new deal has been announced between Twitter and the Weather Channel.  Often, the weather becomes a trending topic on Twitter.  During a big weather event, many people turn to social media for news.  Social media provides users with access to real time information. Now, whenever the weather becomes a... Read more

Twitter’s global ad revenue is increasing and is expected to hit new heights, according to a new estimate from eMarketer.  According to the estimate, Twitter’s ad revenue will almost reach $1 billion in 2014.  The numbers are much higher than previously expected. The reason for the huge increase in ad... Read more

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The rest of the world may live in the Twitter stream, checking updates and sending tweets more often than they check email, but in China, it’s Weibo that rules. Weibo is the Chinese term for microblog, and it was originally launched in 2009. In 2011, the domain name was changed... Read more

If you are a heavy Twitter user, you may be disappointed by Twitter’s announcement that they will be shutting down multiple TweetDeck apps.  If you aren’t familiar with the app, TweetDeck is a Twitter tool that tracks real-time conversations, across multiple accounts and topics. It’s official that TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck... Read more

Burger King got things rolling. Then it was Jeep. Hackers made merry on the Twitter pages of the leading brands, sending out weird messages and changing the design and layout of the profile. They also used the platform to spread rumors. Well apparently the hacking worked out well for Burger... Read more

Something fishy has been over at Twitter. The accounts of some leading businesses have been hacked over the past few week, none more sensationally than Burger King. Not only was someone able to breach Burger King’s account, but make it appear like a McDonald’s page. In fact, the description read... Read more

Twitter announced this week that it would soon be enhancing its API with two additions to its metadata. Upgraded Language Detection One of these changes is a new language property which will determine each Tweet’s language by way of Twitter’s machine language detection algorithms. While it will most likely have... Read more

Just days after Twitter’s video sharing app Vine was slapped with a 17+ rating following pornographic related controversy, Vimeo stiffened competition in the app video sharing space by announcing its purchase of Echograph. Like Vine, Echograph is an iOS app focused on creating short, animated, looping clips. Even before last week there... Read more

As we mentioned earlier this week, Twitter has finally made it possible for users to search for tweets which were posted to the website over a week ago. In a new update to its website and mobile apps, Twitter announced that people can now look for older tweets. Previously, the... Read more

Vine’s user rating has now been changed from 12 and up to 17 and up.  When Vine, the video sharing iOS app, was released in the App Store at the end of last month, it quickly took root.  Vine took over the number one free app spot in the App... Read more