Twitter today announced that its ad platform, which launched early last year, has now been expanded to include everyone in the United States. Previously, only certain businesses and companies were allowed to use Promoted Tweets and Accounts on Twitter. Over the...
Twitter today surprised the world as it updated its official client for Mac (Mac App Store link) with new features and improvements, almost two years since the last update for the app was released. The update adds support for high-resolution...
Twitter today announced the launch of a new service dubbed "Twitter #music" that integrates iTunes, Rdio, and Spotify services to allow users to discover and listen to popular and emerging artists. The service is launching via an iPhone app (App...
Twitter announced via a tweet this morning that the popular microblogging service now has over 200 million monthly active users. The last number Twitter reported in regards to user counts was back in March of this year, when the company...
Twitter announced today that it plans to rollout the new profile page design that was initially unveiled a few months ago to all users on December 12, 2012. The new profile design added the ability for users to upload a...
Following several reports over the past 48 hours, Twitter today officially announced an update to its mobile apps that adds the ability for users to apply filters to photos. The feature, similar to that of Instagram, was built in partnership...
Twitter announced today that popular photo-sharing service Instagram has disabled its integration with Twitter cards, which means that Twitter users will no longer be able to view photos from Instagram from inside their feeds. While the exact reason for Instagram's...
According to a report from All Things D, Twitter has plans to release its own Instagram competitor by the end of 2012. The microblogging service is reportedly going to be adding several photo filters to its mobile apps, and employees are...
Twitter announced yesterday that it will soon be changing the character limit for tweets that include links. Tweets that include standard links will have a maximum of 118 characters and tweets that include https links will have a maximum of...
Yesterday, Twitter announced some major changes that will be coming to its API policy over the coming months. The popular social network revealed that any third-party Twitter client with over 100,000 users will need to receive Twitter's explicit permission to continue...
According to two separate reports from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Apple has either considered in the past or currently considering to make a large investment into popular social network Twitter. The first report claims that Apple and Twitter...
Earlier today, popular social network Twitter suffered an extended downtime between the hours of 8:20 AM and 9:00 AM Pacific time. A majority of Twitter's users were unable to access the service, but by 10:25 AM, service was restored. In a...
Just moments ago, Tapbots announced on its blog that it will be releasing a version of the popular Twitter client "Tweetbot" to Mac OS X users. The initial release is in alpha form, meaning it's not a final build and is...
Earlier today, Twitter released an update to its iOS app (App Store link) that adds a number of new features and updates the app with the company's new logo. Among the improvements include push notification support and "ambient notifications," which...
Twitter announced over the weekend that the final match between Spain and Italy in the 2012 Euro Cup set a new record of Tweets per second related to sports on the microblogging service. During the fourth goal that Spain scored...
Yesterday's prolonged Twitter outage was the longest downtime for the popular microblogging service in nearly eight months. Users were left in the dark for nearly an hour and a half, with the website failing to load completely at times. Not...
Since this morning, popular microblogging service Twitter has been suffering widespread and extended downtimes across the globe. The company is acknowledging the issue on its Twitter Status Blog, but isn't giving any information on the extensiveness of the outage, only...
An employee currently working for Tapbots, the company behind popular iOS Twitter client "Tweetbot," has just posted a picture to his Twitter account that appears to tease an upcoming client for the OS X platform as well. Mark Jardine posted to...
Today, Twitter unveiled a redesigned version of its official "Twitter Bird," which represents the company's logo. It's the third time the bird has been revamped since Twitter launched, and now sports a sleeker, less detailed body. The bird now features...
Yesterday, Twitter announced on its engineering blog that it has begun rolling out changes that will improve performance of the microblogging service. The company is admitting that troubles began shortly after the switch to the "New Twitter" back in 2010,...
