Twitter’s new #FollowMe tool

Twitter and Vizify are teamed up to create a highlight reel of your best tweets, photos, and most engaging moments on Twitter,Vine videos with few clicks. The service, dubbed #FollowMe, can “instantly set your Twitter timeline in motion,” according to Vizify. You can create your own on Vizify’s website. Just link up your Twitter account to Vizify and the company will email you the final result. You can share your…
Read more...Hillary Clinton Joins Twitter

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has officially joined Twitter. Her first tweet said thanks to co-creators of the “Texts From Hillary” blog, Adam Smith and Stacy Lambe. Thanks for the inspiration @asmith83 & @sllambe – I’ll take it from here… #tweetsfromhillary — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 10, 2013 Her official Twitter account, @HillaryClinton, verified on Monday,and it gained huge followers. She described herself as “Wife, mom, lawyer, women…
Read more...Twitter has rolled out Vine app for Android

Twitter on Monday morning released Vine for Android. Vine launched on January 24 for people with iPhones and iPads.With the help of Vine, users can records six-second-long video clips, which can then be embedded within tweets. “Starting today, you can begin to shoot, share and watch short looping videos,” Twitter Android engineer Sara Haider wrote in a blog post. “We’ve been looking forward to this day, and we’re excited to…
Read more...Twitter Acquires Lucky Sort

Twitter has Acquired Data Analysis Startup Lucky Sort. Lucky Sort was founded two years ago and launched its first product called TopicWatch last February. TopicWatch let users analyze real-time trends on social media (including Twitter) as well as from other news sources. Twitter confirmed the acquisition in a tweet. Welcome aboard, @luckysort! luckysort.com — Twitter (@twitter) May 13, 2013 “Today I’m very excited to announce that our journey has…
Read more...Twitter acquires Ubalo

Twitter has acquired a large-scale computing startup called Ubalo. “In early 2011, we started Ubalo to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience,” co-founders Jacob Mattingley and Ian Downes said in the company’s Web site. “A few days ago, Twitter agreed to acquire our technology and we agreed to join their staff.” The Palo Alto-based Ubalo was founded in 2011.According to case studies published on Ubalo’s…
Read more...Twitter acquires We are Hunted

Twitter has acquired We Are Hunted, a small,music discovery service start-up based in Australia. “While we are shutting down wearehunted.com, we will continue to create services that will delight you, as part of the Twitter team”,said wearehunted.com. In a tweet, Twitter also confirmed the acquisition. Welcome to Twitter! “@wearehunted: We want to share some news with you. We Are Hunted has joined Twitter. wearehunted.com” — Twitter Comms (@twittercomms) April 11,…
Read more...Happy 7th Birthday Twitter!

Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday on Thursday. On Mar 21, 2006, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first tweet. It said “just setting up my twttr”. In the last year alone they have made huge progress towards stability and performance.There are now more than 400 full time employees working at Twitter.Twitter’s impact in the areas of social responsibility, politics, sports, media, and more. “Twitter users now send more than 140 million…
Read more...Facebook is planning to use Twitter’s iconic hashtag style

Facebook is planning to adopt Twitter’s iconic hashtag symbol,Wall Street Journal has said. Twitter added a hashtag search feature to make it easy for users to find messages focused on particular topic or interest. The hashtag, which appears as the # symbol.Users type the hashtag alongside a keyword – such as #Pope Francis. Now a days Facbook is introducing new changes.In January it introduced a revamped social search feature, dubbed Graph Search.Today Friday, March…
Read more...Twitter Updates Windows Phone App

Twitter introduced a new version of Twitter for Windows Phone.It has a new design which brings the app in line with other Twitter apps, this update includes several features that make it easier for you to discover and share the content that matters to you. Twitter for Windows Phone now includes the Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs found in other versions of the app. Using the Home tab you…
Read more...Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest warn of privacy risk after Zendesk is hacked.

A security breach at cloud-based customer support vendor Zendesk has exposed personal information including email addresses of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr users, the company in a blog post. We’ve become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week. As soon as we learned of the attack, we patched the vulnerability and closed the access that the hacker had. Our ongoing investigation indicates that the hacker had access to the support…
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