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It's no secret that Twitter is looking into new ways to monetise its (free) service -- in 2011, it rolled out promoted posts, and since then it has been experimenting with everything from potential income from shopping deals to the mysterious upcoming music app. But it seems Twitter has yet another plan: making money from ads, which are, um, placed in ads.Citing a tweet from a US broadcaster as an example, an All Things D report suggests Twitter is quietly ...
Twitter has introduced trends to 160 new locations and is today set to launch a music app.Trends are one of the most important weapons in Twitter's arsenal. They help push engagement, especially when event organisers are trying to get people excited and, when they're promoted, they're a money-spinner for the social network.Having trends for as many locations as possible therefore makes sense, especially from an economic point of view. Among the countries getting trends for the first time ...
Twitter has released a new version of its Android app as well updates to its iOS and mobile web versions.In an official blog post, the social network says that the new Android version is designed to "reflect a native Android experience".It has achieved this, it says, with wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar and tap and hold functionality for quick actions. You can now, for instance, navigate between tabs by swiping across ...
Twitter has announced that a major revamp to its cards function, including much deeper app integration.Cards have been important to Twitter for a while. They're what lets you see a video or summary of an article from a tweet and what Instagram removed support for last year. According to Twitter, the feature is used by more than 10 000 developers, mobile apps and websites.The new version of cards comes with mobile app deep-linking. This means that people will ...
Twitter has relaunched its Twitter for Business site, giving it a new look as well as extra content.One of the most obvious changes Twitter has implemented with the relaunch is separating the sections for businesses new to Twitter and those who've been on the platform for a while now. If you want to see how other people have done well on Twitter, you can also see their success stories based on industry and size.There are also tips on how ...If all goes well, Twitter's global ad revenue should hit a billion dollars by 2014, says a recent eMarketer report.The research firm says this number comes in the wake of advertisers showing "more interest in spending money on mobile advertisements on Twitter", which suggests that Twitter's reach is improving. With more than 200-million monthly active users, Twitter is one of the top tier social networks so an improved interest in mobile advertising is hardly surprising.eMarketer reckons that Twitter will ...Twitter archive adds Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu— Twitter (@twitter) March 21, 2013Twitter's archive feature is now available in a dozen new languages including Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.The archive feature, announced back in December, allows users to download all their tweets ever, from time in memoriam... or more accurately the date of joining the microblogging service.A Twitter blog post from December had this to say about its archive feature: "Over ...Back in July 2007, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey filed a patent application for a new system they were working on, which allowed users to send messages, not just to specific recipients, but a broader user base. That project has since evolved into one of the biggest social networking platforms in the world -- but the application has been spending its time in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Until yesterday.The Twitter co-founders were granted a patent on their ...
It's taken a while but it's finally here. Twitter for Windows 8 and RT has finally been released into the wild.So if you've bought a Surface tablet or one of the myriad other Windows tablets on the market right now, you'll be able to enjoy a native Twitter experience. It also shows that Windows 8 and RT are starting to get more mainstream respect.The social network today announced that it had launched the app with a number of ...
To block or not to block: that is one of the most difficult questions any of us face when we’re out there in the social media trenches.I always regarded blocking as an admission of defeat. Heck, I rarely even unfollow people, and on a public platform where you take the good with the bad, blocking should be a last resort. Having rotten tomatoes lobbed your way is one of the occupational hazards of raising your head above the parapet. ...
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