TwitPic has just revealed that it has been acquired, however, has stopped short of revealing anything about the buyer.
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Twitter: Apple Pay is certainly a ‘good thing’
Twitter has also expressed interest in working with Apple as President of global revenue, Adam Bain said “When the time is right.”
Twitter testing ‘Buy’ button
The feature is tested with a limited number of US users and a bunch of advertising partners including singer Rihanna, the non-profit organization Red fighting AIDS, etc.
Twitpic going down; trademark dispute with Twitter to blame
Twitpic has announced that it is taking down its picture sharing service on September 25 following a trademark dispute with Twitter. Twitpic revealed that Twitter has sent out an ultimatum to either…
Twitter announces bug bounty program; to pay $140 per bug
Twitter has finally attached monetary incentives to bug discoveries and will pay a reward of $140 to security researchers through its new bounty programme if they are able to report any security…
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.
Twitter: Deceased individual’s photos to be removed on family members’ request
Twitter: In order to respect the wishes of loved ones, Twitter will remove imagery of deceased individuals in certain circumstances.
Twitter tests Facebook-like feed; users frustrated
Twitter intends to tread the Facebook road!
Twitter rolls out ‘promoted video’ advertising program
Twitter is offering the new Promoted Video program in a Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model, which means advertisers get charged only when users play the video.
Twitter: 8.5% of 271M active users are bots
Around 23 million active users are bots that automatically contact the Twitter servers for regular updates through third party apps with no user action involved.
Twitter wants advertisers to get more returns; offers new objective-based platform
Under the new plan twitter is offering advertisers five different options to chose from including new followers, website clicks or conversions, tweet engagements, app installations and leads.
Twitter takes over password security startup Mitro
Mitro will continue to serve it’s customers. Financial details of the acquisition is yet to be disclosed.
Twitter shares its diversity report; promises a more diverse workforce
The overall strength of female employees is only 30 percent even though 50 percent of the non-tech employees are female.
Spammers exploit MH-17 tragedy
Scammers create fake MH17 Facebook and Twitter tribute pages and posts with likes to spammy sites, in the name of the victims identity to cash-in.
Twitter testing ‘retweet with comment’ to replace ‘quote a tweet’
The ironclad 140-character limit is likely loosening up a bit!