News tagged ‘twitter’
Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013
Symantec Reports: Phishing Attacks Have Been Setting Twitter Aflutter
Twitter recently announced that the details of around 250,000 users may have been compromised before it was discovered and stopped an attack on their network. Over the past few months, the Symantec response team has observed one particular attack taking place on Twitter.
Monday, 28 Jan 2013
Google+ Surpasses Twitter as Second Most Popular Social Network
In the final quarter of 2012, Google+ became the second most popular social media on the Internet, just slightly behind Facebook. In third place was Youtube, another Google product, while Twitter was in fourth place.
Tuesday, 11 Dec 2012
Twitter Rolls Out Photo Editing Features
The update to Twitter's iPhone and Android applications will allow users to edit photos in new ways, such as adding filters, photo frames, as well as an auto-enhance capability to its image sharing feature.
Monday, 10 Dec 2012
Instagram Disables Twitter Integration
According to AllThingsD, Facebook confirms it has disabled Instagram's support for Twitter Cards technology.
Friday, 16 Nov 2012
Twitter Unveils Email Sharing
According to Twitter's recent blog post, users will soon be able to email a Tweet directly from their Twitter stream to contacts who are not followers or anyone for that matter. This new feature will be rolled out over the following weeks.
Thursday, 8 Nov 2012
Obama's Victory Tweet Breaks Record
Following the U.S. Presidential Elections, Obama's victory tweet became the most re-tweeted tweet in all of Twitter's history.
Friday, 28 Sep 2012
Instagram's Number of Daily Active Users Exceeds Twitter's
Instagram has surpassed Twitter in the number of daily mobile users. Instagram now boasts of 7.3 million daily mobile users, while Twitter has about 6.9 million. Additionally, the average amount of time a typical user spends on Instagram is about 257 minutes, compared to 169.9 minutes for Twitter.
Tuesday, 7 Aug 2012
twheel Delivers New UI for Twitter
An application called twheel which provides a fun, game-like interface for Twitter is now available on the AppStore.
Friday, 27 Apr 2012
Twitter Updates Android and iOS Apps, Hopes to Win Back Users
Twitter has made upgrades to its Android and iOS apps in the hopes of winning back users who were turned away after the last major redesign.
Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012
Promoted Tweets Hit Mobile Twitter Apps
Twitter includes advertising in its mobile apps with Promoted tweets. Previously not found on mobile devices, Twitter has announced that Promoted Tweets will now appear on iOS, Android and other mobile platforms.