Tag Archives: Twitter

Twitter its seems is finally fixed an issues which has been bugging users for a while now, fixing the way we view our timeline. Twitter took to its own platform overnight to announce that from today, users will be able to finally disable the “Show the best Tweets first” setting …

If you’re heading to Byron Bay in northern NSW this weekend you’re most likely heading to one of the largest music festivals still running Australia, Splendour in the Grass. While you’re at the festival, you can tweet, share photos and basically connect to the internet thanks to Twitter who have …

Twitter has announced the mobile app for their Fabric mobile development toolkit is now available in both Google Play and the App Store for iOS. While Fabric has been available since 2014, the app has only been in development for five months at Twitter, but it’s now ready for developers …

Google announced Chrome Custom Tabs back at I/O earlier this year and since then we have seen the feature rolled out in Chrome Mobile version 45 in September, now it seems that Twitter users are starting to see the official Twitter for Android app adopting them when opening links you’ve …

Twitter has today announced further improvements to their Direct Message (DM) feature, allowing users to send messages which exceed the traditional 140 characters. Twitter is a very much public experience, although you can lock your feed to a private account. Twitter has been updating the private side of things for …

Well known Android developer of third party Twitter Client Falcon Pro, as well as Flyne and Hacked App – has joined Twitter. Announcing the move on Twitter, Joaquim has advised he has grown tired of working within the limitations of the API available to third party Twitter client developers and …

Twitter has been showing videos, animated GIFs and Vine videos inline for a while now, but according to Twitter, the static images aren’t a fantastic experience when trying to view real-time events, with several taps required to get them going – so from today, they’ll be auto-playing. While the video …

That’s not a typo, Google Plus really has started using its Twitter account – which was opened back in 2011. With an announcement made on their own Google Plus page, the question was posed if you tweet because they do too. https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/Z71Z5f49UKN As a result they’ve very quickly picked up …

Twitter can be great, but it can also be a chore sometimes depending on how many people you follow and how active they are. Trying to catch up on a 1000 or more tweets in the morning can put you off in the long run, so Twitter is trying to …

Following the change this week to allow users to send messages to accounts that don’t follow them (amongst other things), Twitter has also been making changes to its policies and enforcement options to ensure that Twitter users play by the rules. The first area of change is policy; Twitter has …

Twitter Direct Messages are great; they allow you to have private conversations with the people you interact with publicly, but you can’t have private conversations with just everyone. You need to ‘follow’ each other in order to have a two-way conversation, and this can cause some problems, e.g. for company …

Meerkat, the live video streaming service, has announced via its Twitter service that it has begun opening up its service to users to partake in an open beta testing of the service for Android. Meerkat rose to prominence at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas in the USA …

A few days ago we learned of Twitter’s revamp of the “quote tweet” interface by embedding the original tweet and leaving users with more space to comment. Following the feature’s rollout on Twitter’s web UI and iOS clients, Twitter’s official Android App received the update enabling the feature overnight and …