Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has vetoed a plan to ban WhatsApp, following a row over censorship of the popular messaging application, media reports said Wednesday. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by…
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Today, Amazon announced a new partnership with Twitter, allowing users to add items to their Amazon shopping carts by simply replying to certain tweets with the self-explanatory hashtag, #AmazonCart. It’s a new way to buy stuff, and it’s no surprise…
Let’s be honest — Twitter’s following system falls apart when you have a noisy friend. On Facebook, you can simply stop that person’s posts from showing up without unfriending them, but Twitter has no comparable function (at least officially…
The stunningly beautiful former Miss Nigeria UK — Dabota Lawson took to her Twitter page to speak on the missing…
Nigerian protesters marched on parliament Wednesday to demand the government and military do more to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists more than two weeks ago. Dubbed “a million woman march” and promoted on Twitter under…
Twitter on Tuesday reported a $132 million loss in the first quarter, while revenues rose sharply and the popular messaging platform boosted its user base. The company said revenues grew 119 percent from a year ago to $250 million, and its monthly active…
You can call it copying or you can call it borrowing, but the “swapping” of ideas between Facebook and Twitter over the past year has been fascinating to see unfold. Facebook copied Twitter’s hashtags and trending topics, and then Twitter copied…
Turkey’s prime minister said Saturday he will “go after” Twitter, accusing the site of tax-evasion, after it was used to spread damaging leaks implicating his inner circle in corruption scandals. “Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are international companies…
Okay, maybe “new” look isn’t accurate. How about “borrowed” look? Yes, the Facebookification of Twitter continues. In an announcement posted this morning on the company’s blog, Twitter designer David Bellona showed us the future of Twitter…
The United States on Thursday denied it used its overseas aid agency to mount a covert operation on social media to incite unrest against Cuba’s communist leaders. But the US Agency for International Development (USAID) did say it had created a Twitter…
Turkey’s top constitutional court ruled on Wednesday that the government’s ban on the online messaging service Twitter violated rights, local media reported. The court ordered that the ban must be lifted, sending a statement both to the country’s telecommunications…
Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel expressed disappointment on Wednesday after a goal that he thought he had scored was instead officially attributed to one of his team-mates. “What a shame,” Schmeichel wrote on Twitter. “All can see it was…
About a year ago I pre-ordered the Automatic Smart Driving Assistant after seeing it talked about on Twitter, a number of months past and then in early August it finally showed up on my doorstep. My early experiences with the Automatic were very positive…
Here it is, the first causality of Facebook’s acquisition of the promising virtual reality company Oculus today. Minecraft and Mojang creator Markus Perrson, better known by his online nickname “Notch”, has just announced on his personal Twitter…
Do you remember your first? First Twitter follower, I mean. Whether you have tens of thousands of followers now or just a few dozen, you started out with the same number as everyone else: zero. And someone had to be number one; the very first person…
Today is a sad day for those of us who actually used Twitter’s floundering Twitter Music service, originally released last April, just shy of a year ago. While the service has been rumored to be on the chopping block for quite some time now, Twitter…
Turkey’s combative prime minister warned on Thursday that he would eradicate Twitter in the wake of damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle that have spread across social networks in recent weeks. “We will wipe out Twitter. I don’t care…
Liverpool said Wednesday it was “touched” by a Twitter message from the daughter of the chief steward aboard a missing Malaysian airliner, appealing for her dad to “come home” to watch the club’s game. The English Premier League club reposted the message…
What did you make as an intern? I’m going to guess that, for most of you, it was not $7,000 a month. But that’s what some interns are making at software company Palantir, and those at well-known tech companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google aren…
Today, Automatic, the company behind helping make drivers smarter, safer, and more fuel efficient is adding a whole new layer to the product: giving drivers the power to connect their cars to dozens of popular web services like Twitter, Facebook,…