Twitter has told its employees that they work from home permanently even when the pandemic fades away. Out the 5000 employees the company boosts. Only those with critical roles such as maintaining servers will have to stay at work. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, through an email to his employees, confirmed ...
Twitter has removed a feature that previously allowed users to stop sharing data with advertisers. Twitter has disabled the setting for users to help the company continue to operate as a free service. From now, the information will be shared by default. The shared data will show the efficacy of ...
Twitter is testing its own version of Stories dubbed Fleets that allows you to share ideas and momentary opinions. The testing of the feature will start in Brazil which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. The feature was first popularized by Snapchat ...
Following the growing concerns over coronavirus. Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home. This is in order to avoid spreading coronavirus. Their announcement follows earlier news that cases of the viral infection have been identified in San Mateo, Santa ...
Twitter has pulled in one billion dollars in quarterly revenue for the first time. The revenue grew by 11 per cent from a year earlier to $1.01bn, also beating the expectation of $996.7m from the previous projections. The high revenue is attributed to the tremendous efforts the company has made ...
Twitter has announced a subtle design change to its iOS app. The update will make it easier for users to join and parse conversations. The current twitter interface is not easy to follow individual reply chains. Yesterday through their official Twitter support page, Twitter notified it's users on the new ...
Twitter has introduced emoji tap backs to direct messages. Tap backs allow users to respond to incoming or outgoing messages with one of six popular emoji, including the red heart, thumbs up, and thumbs down. Dubbed "emoji reactions", the feature directly mimics Apple's infamous iMessage. Twitter made an official announcement ...
Twitter has come up with a Prototype version of its app Twttr which creates threaded replies. From the initial tweet, you can scroll down and see the replies, and the replies to the replies. This app is similar to the Reddit-style indent system. The current twitter interface is not easy ...
Twitter will soon enable you to control who replies to your tweets. The new feature is built on the hide replies options that the company launched earlier on. The new feature allows you to restrict replies from your followers or alternatively stop replies completely. This means you can effectively have ...
Twitter's Jack Dorsey just unfollowed Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter as the firm moves to allow its users to upload 8 Megapixel photos up to 16 Megapixels without loss in quality. Twitter did not allow this previously as the images were compressed to save size and download latency. From now the ...
Twitter has announced a new move not to remove dormant accounts just days after the announcement. This new change comes after a backlash by other twitter users who had objected that some of the inactive users are people close to their hearts who have died, for instance, renown celebrities who ...
If you haven't logged into your Twitter account for the past six months and don't want someone to grab your username, you might want to sign in soon. This is because Twitter is notifying users that it'll start removing inactive accounts and this purge will begin after December 11th. Twitter’s current inactive account ...
CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday that Twitter will ban all political ads, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook over its controversial stance to allow politicians to advertise false statements. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Twitter had previously implemented rules and restrictions for political advertising. The announcement comes as Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over its decision ...
Twitter is the hub of everything that is usually happening around you. It is also the one place where the audience is mature and are more interested in political affairs as opposed to entertainment. Serious conversations begin on Twitter then move on to other platforms. It is the home of ...
Twitter is supposed to use phone numbers for only the two-factor authentication, but it seems to have been unintentionally used for more than that. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it “unintentionally” used phone numbers and email addresses gathered for account safety and security (including two-factor authentication), for advertising purposes. No personal data was ...
Twitter has begun testing a new feature that lets you follow topics in addition to people. There will be a list of topics curated by Twitter which you'll have to pick from, starting with sports, but it should expand to include celebrities, TV shows, and other common discussions. On Tuesday, the ...
Twitter is working on a snooze button that can pause notifications from flooding your phone, according to app researcher, Jane Manchun Wong. For those of you who have a gift of creating tweets that go viral, you most likely enjoy your new-found fame for a few hours, before getting ticked-off ...
Twitter Lite has been launched in the Google Play Store in 24 more countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America, specifically: Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Serbia, El Salvador, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, Tanzania, ...
Twitter has introduced all sorts of strategies to enable it catchup with Facebook in terms of numbers of users and profitability. Despite this, they are not even close. Hence, it may not come as a surprise to some industry watchers that, the social media platform has appointed Sriram Krishnan, a ...
Night mode on Twitter is one of those things I love about the app... and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. Some users on Twitter have reported that they could see a "Night mode" option in the menu of their account when they accessed the social network on their desktop. ...
Today, several high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised, displaying messages featuring swastikas. According to a tweet from Twitter support, the company identified an issue caused by a third-party app affecting some users, but wouldn't specify whether this was directly related to the hack. We identified an issue affecting a small number of ...
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online. There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services. When alerted, we take swift action against this kind of content in accordance with our respective policies. The firms ...
Struggling micro-blogging site Twitter today announced it will shut down its mobile short video sharing app Vine as it firm moves to trim extra wage weight , cut costs and turn into profitability. According to the firm in a statement posted on Medium, ''Since 2013, millions of people have turned ...
Do you always fall victim of Twitter’s word limit? Twitter is planning to make things a little easier by ditching the 140 character limit. In addition, attachments inclusive of images, GIFs, polls, videos and quoted tweets will no longer reduce the count. This move will definitely help users who have ...
Twitter continues to grow its emphasis on direct messaging with its new button. It now provides a button that you can include on your website that allows guests or viewers to send you a direct message to your Twitter account. This allows them to immediately get in contact with you ...
Tech hubs have been there in Nairobi even before iHub, Nailab, GrowthHub and Nairobi Garage, only this one's listed were good at doing their PR and getting international coverage and love and pity in equal measure. Squad Digital, Sub-Saharan Africa’s leading digital advertising firm, has today launched an innovation lab ...
Social media platform Twitter announced it is now much easier for its users in Africa to enjoy video on its platform. In a statement made available to TechMoran, Twitter said native videos, Vines and GIFs will begin to play back automatically. “You can keep up with the action without missing ...
Twitter has announced that Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter, effective July 1, 2015 and Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board will stand in as Interim CEO before a new CEO is hired. This has been expected for a long time now as the firm ...
Nigeria's ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its social media accounts had been hacked. In a statement by Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary, the PDP said hackers released a series of unauthorised statements through the platforms, prompting the party to decommission the social media accounts. The statement ...
Twitter is like no other data source in the world. It is a real-time, public, conversational and global information platform where voices from around the world are speaking about every topic imaginable. And now business professionals and developers will be able to extract actionable business insights from Twitter data after ...
