Twitter has rolled out Vine, a video-sharing service that limits clips to six seconds, embeds them into tweets and loops the playback.
Video: Your New Year’s Resolutions for Using Twitter
Jazzhands! Instead of making my own resolutions, here’s what you need to work on when using Twitter this year.
Take a Look at Twitter’s New Photo Filters
Well, ladies and gentleman, the war of the photo filters has begun. Twitter has added Instagram-like photo filters to its iOS and Android apps. Here’s what they look like.
Instagram Yanks Its Photos from Twitter Cards
If you use Twitter, and follow lots of people who post photos from Instagram, you may notice that those photos don’t look quite right.
Netbot: Good News for App.net’s Anti-Twitter Insurrection
A couple of months ago, I got excited about App.net, Dalton Caldwell's social network which was both a Twitter clone and an anti-Twitter. (It looks and works much like Twitter once did, but charges for service and aims to welcome
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A Plea to Twitter: Let Us Hide Our Spoilers
A few nights ago as I was scanning through Twitter, my eyes picked up on a few keywords and settled, to my dismay, on a major spoiler for Breaking Bad.
The show had just aired in my time zone, but as a cord cutter, I’ve only …
Using Twitter to Crack Down on Bullying
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have developed a computer program that caught 15,000 bullying-related tweets in one day.
via Using Twitter to Crack Down on Bullying | NewsFeed | TIME.com.
Talk to Your Community, Twitter
If you want to know about the future Twitter’s attempting to build for itself, the best source is the company’s own developer blog. On Thursday, it featured a post by Twitter’s Michael Sippey outlining some changes. The piece …
App.net Made Its Goal. But Can It Make It?
When I last (and first) wrote about App.net — an ad-free, developer-friendly, would-be Twitter competitor — I was wondering whether it would meet its goal of raising $500,000 via a Kickstarter-esque crowdfunding system by …
App.net: Both Twitter Clone and Anti-Twitter
Dalton Caldwell is a San Francisco entrepreneur who founded iMeem (a music-centric social network which was bought and then shuttered by MySpace) and Picplz (which lost the iPhone photo-sharing war to Instagram). Back on July 1, …
Yes, the New iPhone Could Cost $800 – You’ll Probably Pay $200, Though
There’s a double rainbow of trending Twitter topics right now: iPhone 5 $800 and #800DollarsForAniPhone. The people of Twitter are aghast! Aren’t iPhones supposed to cost $200? “For $800, this phone better [insert outrageous …
Twitter Political Index Measures Sentiment About Obama and Romney
Happiness and rage: Twitter has both.
After trying to figure out which tweets are positive and which are negative, such “sentiment data” is being used to reflect the public’s general mood about certain topics. If you’re mad or …
