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 ...
In a move that's set to allow users share and watch live video broadcasts from their mobile phones, Twitter has launched Periscope, an app it acquired early this year for about $75 million to $100 million. Periscope will allow Twitter users to title their broadcasts as well and share them ...
Search engine Google has partnered with Twitter to make to have tweets more visible online ending the previous way of doing things where Google had to go on the social media site to look for information. Bloomberg reports that the tweets will now come automatically from Twitter. Attributing to people ...
Twitter yesterday unveiled group direct messaging and a video sharing to allow users share experiences in small groups or as well as in video formart. According to the firm, the group function lets users start conversations with any of their followers and they don’t all need to follow one another ...
Twitter users on the web and on mobile apps will from now be able to translate tweets into different languages after the social media power hose launched the Bing translator on its site and on mobile apps for iOS and Android, and TweetDeck. A user only needs to activate the ...
While Kenya Red Cross, a humanitarian organization, created a hash tag under the tag name #AskAbbas to communicate with Kenyans via Twitter, it generated long-winded talk targeted at Kenya Red Cross boss Abbas Gullet and rapper Abbas Kubaff. Kenyans used the hash tag to ask Mr. Gullet questions about rapper ...
Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt General Kenneth Minimah has issued a stern warning to army officers to refrain from discussing military issues on social media. While addressing the troops at Ibereko, Topo and Ojo Barracks in Lagos, Minimah warned the soldiers against using social media to spread false information, ...
Launched May 2014, Toeter, an Afrikaans Twitter competitor is reporting users over tens of thousands and also getting positive industry PR in the country. According to the founder, Frans Roelofse, the site is not just for connecting people who want to celebrate Afrikaans as a language and is also a ...
" Anonymous Kenya FUCK YOU GOVERNMENT!William Samoei Ruto (@WilliamsRuto) ," read one of the offensive tweets. Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto’s Twitter account has been hacked and as usual the Anonymous group has taken responsibility for the act. About 30 minutes after the first tweet by the group on his ...
The Iraq government has reportedly blocked access social media sites in the country in a move to help it combat ISIS according to a new report by the BBC. The report says the government is blocking the networks after the Islamist insurgents took to Twitter to post a graphic image ...
Ad Dynamo has been appointed by Twitter as its exclusive ad sales partner in South Africa and is set to work with brands and marketing agencies as Twitter's point of contact. With over 255 million active users and several brands worldwide Twitter helps both individuals and firms engage with ...
Twitter has acquired Gnip, a social data provider and a long standing Twitter partner to help it analyze its over 500 million Tweets a day. In a blog post, Jana Messerschmidt (@janamal), VP, Global Business Development & Platform at Twitter said, "Every day Twitter users share and discuss their interests ...
Twitter has pulled a Facebook look after the social media site applied drastic changes in a bid to jump start its growth after a long time of unique settings, appearance and operation. The new look is suspected to motivate appeal to Facebook’s 1.2 billion monthly active users, a few of ...
Microblogging site Twitter, with over 10 million users in Turkey has been apparently blocked by the country's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan himself with 4.2 million followers, after its users allegedly shared corruption recordings said to be him instructing his son on how dispose of a large amount of cash during ...
