Keeping up to its promise of exploring ways of letting its users write longer posts, Twitter may soon stop counting photographs and links.
Tag: Tweets
Warblr app can automatically recognise birds by their song
A machine learning technology developed and launched by Queen Mary University London’s Dan Stowell and his business partner Florence Wilkinson is able to identify birds by their tweets. The duo, after developing…
Google begins showing tweets in mobile search results
Google has partnered with Twitter to display tweets in its search results in real time. Previously, Google provided links to tweets in its search results for some time. But the new integration…
Twitter rolls out new ‘Highlights’ feature
Twitter has rolled out a new feature dubbed ‘Highlights’ to help users sieve through the large number of tweets on their feed each day. The new service offers a twice-daily summary “of…
Twitter, big data could help hospitals better plan and handle emergencies
Twitter as a medium of sharing information in few characters has garnered user base and according to researchers tweets from users along with few other information could help hospitals better plan their…
Twitter drops Discover tab in favour of Tailored Trends
Twitter will be dropping the #Discover and activity tabs in favour of new ‘Tailored Trends’ section. The ‘Discover’ tab showed users topics which were trending or popular within their network. Dropping the…
Twitter teams up with Foursquare to allow for location tagging in tweets
Twitter has teamed up with Foursquare to allow users to add their precise location data to tweets via official apps and the web. At present, Twitter users have the option to tag…
Twitter rolls out new feature to report threatening tweets to Police
Twitter has rolled out a new anti-harassment feature which will make it easier for users to report threatening tweets to the police. Users will be able to report a threatening tweet by…
Twitter collaborates with Bing to roll out tweet translation feature
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has teamed up with Bing Translator to roll out new ‘tweet translation’ feature for users. “Tweet translation is available on twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, Twitter for Android, and TweetDeck,”…
Twitter iPhone app bestowed with new analytics feature
Sometimes you get too curious to find out how well your tweet has performed; now a new feature in Twitter’s iPhone app will do the work for you. Twitter, on Monday, rolled…
Samaritans Radar app suspended amid ‘serious concerns’
Samaritans has suspended its Samaritans Radar app, which intended to detect when people on Twitter appeared to be suicidal, due to ‘serious concerns’. Samaritans Radar is designed to analyse Tweets from users…
Twitter unlocks its vast database for selected pool of researchers
Twitter has given access to its vast database to a selected pool of researchers allowing them to study tweets and find answers to a variety of issues under its ambitious data grant…
Twitter: BotMaker helped decrease spam by 40%
Twitter: To fight spam on Twitter, we built BotMaker, a system that we designed and implemented from the ground up that forms a solid foundation for our principled defense against unsolicited content.
IBM researchers: non-geotagged tweets reveal user location
Developers at IBM on Friday released information on a new algorithm that predicts Twitter users’ location using the metadata contained in their last 200 non-geotagged tweets. The researchers claim that the formula…
Social media lie detector being developed to spot hoax tweets
A team of researchers from seven different countries led by The University of Sheffield is developing a new system for Twitter that will help identify fake or hoax tweets and posts. Dubbed…