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Twitter Hacked: Stolen Logins On Sale

Posted on 9 June 2016

A hacker has put on sale more than 32 million Twitter login names and passwords.

GCHQ finally joins Twitter and it is already getting trolled

Posted on 17 May 2016

UK Spy agency which specializes in acquiring information through communications, GCHQ has officially joined Twitter. May be it’s a sign that the surveillance agencies are finally realizing that they need to maintain…

Twitter To Stop Counting Photographs And Links In Tweets

Posted on 17 May 2016

Keeping up to its promise of exploring ways of letting its users write longer posts, Twitter may soon stop counting photographs and links.

Russian embassy tweets: Or how not to run an effective propaganda on twitter

Posted on 16 May 2016

“In Putin’s Russia, it is not game developers who use official Government images, but the Russian Government who uses old game images.” That may sound like the lamest “In Mother Russia” joke…

Twitter Joins Hands with Yelp in Japan, UK to Tag Location

Posted on 27 April 2016

Upping the game is something twitter has been doing consistently instead of announcing mega deals unlike a few social media players. The latest news from the twit corner is that the social…

Twitter introduced new features to get rid of Trolls and Haters

Posted on 26 April 2016

Twitter is one of those places on the internet where users give their opinion even if it’s not needed. The big reason why many people prefer Twitter over Facebook is because the…

Nintendo’s Miitomo app keeps your friends closer and trolls far away

Posted on 21 April 2016

Nintendo has recently announced a collaboration with Splatoon for its app Miitomo. The company is urging users too tweet using the hashtag #Miitomo_Splatoon_RT and in return the users might just get 10k…

Twitter quietly removes custom backgrounds from users’ profile pages, timelines

Posted on 23 July 2015

Twitter has removed background images and customized wallpapers from users’ timelines and profile pages and replaced them with a blank white background. Previously, users were allowed to set wallpaper or customized image…

Majority of Americans turning to Facebook and Twitter for news consumption: Report

Posted on 21 July 2015

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter are turning into influential news sources for majority of Americans, a new survey has found. According to a survey conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center…

Twitter intros autoplay videos; Here’s how to disable it

Posted on 20 June 2015

Twitter introduced autoplay videos a couple of days back – a move it dubs will provide for “a more streamlined consumption experience” – wherein videos, GIFs and Vines will autoplay as you…

Twitter helps shed light on sleep disorders

Posted on 13 June 2015

Social media is being increasingly used for scientific research owing to the large user-base and a new example of this sort of social media aided research is the use of Twitter data…

Twitter’s Periscope lands on Android

Posted on 28 May 2015

Twitter-owned popular live streaming app, Periscope, is now finally available to Android users. Periscope’s Android debut comes less than two months after it was rolled out for iOS. Periscope app allows people…

Google begins showing tweets in mobile search results

Posted on 20 May 2015

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 disables MS-DOS game embeds in tweets

Posted on 5 May 2015

Twitter has disabled the recently released feature which allowed users to embed classic MS-DOS games right into a tweet. Using the new feature, users were able to paste links of their favorite…

Instagram garners more post interactions than Facebook or Twitter: Quintly

Posted on 29 April 2015

Instagram has surpassed micro-blogging giant Twitter as well as its own parent company Facebook in terms of post interactions, new research study has revealed. According to a research conducted by Quintly, which…

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