Tag: twitter
Twitter launches group direct messaging and built-in videos
Watch out WhatsApp and BBM - Twitter is gunning for you. The company has just launched a new group DM feature - meaning that you can now privately message groups of people with both text and pictures. It isn't immediately clear if direct messages are also limited to 140 characters - but the implication is…
Could Twitter cause a recession? The Bank of England turn to social media monitoring.
The Bank of England's chief economist has announced that the bank will be monitoring social networks, to better understand the state of the economy. According to Sky News, Andy Haldane has been tasked with using "unconventional sources" of data to make economic predications. The thinking is that by monitoring, say, how many people are searching…
Twitter is getting native video functionality
Okay, so maybe we got ahead of ourselves last October, but it really does seem now that Twitter's video product should be launching soon. According to The Drum, users will be able to upload videos of up to ten minutes in length - and it will support MP4 and MOV uploads. Only paid up Twitter…
Twitter starts testing “while you were away” Facebook-newsfeed style feature
Twitter has started testing a new feature which will sort through your tweets since the last time you checked Twitter, and display the most important/relevant ones, without you having to scroll through the whole lot. The news comes via many Twitter users, who have started seeing the section appearing in their app. OMG, it appears…
Does Instagram now have more users than Twitter?
Instagram has announced it has topped 300m users... has it finally overtaken Twitter? In a great spot by Mashable, it looks likely that the photo app now has more users than Twitter - which in October said it had just 281m users. Instagram is, of course, owned by Facebook which itself has over 1.1bn users…
Who was the first person to mention Ed Balls on Twitter?
Ever wondered who was the first to utter a certain word or phrase on Twitter? Now you can find out using a tool created by Amit Agarwal using the improved Twitter search system. It means we can finally answer age old questions like "Who was the first person to mention Ed Balls?": Or perhaps just…
Twitter to look at your other apps to better target its ads
Twitter is to use the other apps you have downloaded to make its targeted adverts more relevant to you, it has emerged. According to the Bangkok Post quotes Twitter as saying: "We are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might…
Lego confirms 70s “Message to Parents” viral image is REAL!
Lego has today confirmed that a viral image, purporting to be a message to parents contained within a Lego set in the 1970s is indeed REAL! You must have seen the image, which has had over 6000 retweets, by now - it has been widely shared on Twitter and Facebook after appearing on Reddit -…
Twitter makes Twitter Search actually work like it should do
If you've ever searched Twitter looking for an old tweet you'll have noticed a problem - go back more than couple of weeks and search will claim the Tweet doesn't exist. The good news now is that the company has made the search box act like you might expect it to - and search through…
88-year-old woman forced to awkwardly tweet to avoid social embarrassment
An 88-year-old woman was forced to feign interest in Twitter today, as she was shown around a new exhibition on the information age by younger colleagues. The woman, who identified herself only as "Elizabeth R", is thought to be a victim of circumstances that have forced her to continue working - even well after she…
