Tag: Twitter

  • Twitter shows ads based on your browsing history

    Mashable reports that Twitter will now. The program, called tailored audiences, rolled out in a smaller scale in July. Using tailored audiences, advertisers can target users who have either visited their website or “shown an interest” in your brand’s category on and outside of Twitter. For advertisers, that means it’s now possible to identify people…

  • Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet

    Reuters reports that Twitter is tying up with Singapore-based startup U2opia Mobile make its services available on mobile phones without Internet. U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with Facebook Inc, will launch its Twitter service in the first quarter of next year, Chief Executive and Co-founder Sumesh Menon told Reuters. Users will need to…

  • Twitter’s little experiments to boost engagement

    WIRED.com reports that Twitter is making tweaks to its interface to encourage users to communicate with each other. The main thing I’ve found using the new version is that the way you send and receive direct messages, see what your friends are up to, and take part in public conversations are all lot more obvious.…

  • T-Mobile and AT&T battle on twitter to win one customer

    It’s not often that you see this happen, but it’s also nice to see social media used in positive ways. Now if only carriers paid that much attention to existing customers. T-Mobile and AT&T went head-to-head on Twitter over a customer

  • Twitter boosts security with forward secrecy

    The battle for privacy continues. Forward Secrecy at Twitter On top of the usual confidentiality and integrity properties of HTTPS, forward secrecy adds a new property. If an adversary is currently recording all Twitter users’ encrypted traffic, and they later crack or steal Twitter’s private keys, they should not be able to use those keys…

  • New Twitter app features on iPhone and Android

    The Business Insider reports on the hidden features in the new Twitter iPhone and Android apps. TV trends: The basis of the TV trends section is that you can chat about your favorite show with other fans but that seems to be about it. Timeline sort by prominence: This element of the app is timeline…

  • Twitter web gets cleaner look

    TechCrunch reports that Twitter is testing a new look for its website. Alone, those changes add up to a cleaner, more modern look for the site, but there are a few other significant changes, too. That includes the new prominent placement of the Twitter logo, which also occupies a prime seat in the middle of…

  • JPMorgan’s Twitter fail

    Business Insider reports on JPMorgan being burned by its Twitter campaign. JPMorgan had a bit of a public relations nightmare Wednesday when the #AskJPM hashtag it designated for its planned Twitter question and answer session was hijacked by a storm of users furious with the bank for its perceived role in the financial crisis of…

  • Twitter custom timelines

    Twitter has announced a new feature: custom timelines. Available on Tweetdeck. Custom timelines are a new type of timeline you control: you create the timeline, give it a name, and select which Tweets to add, either by hand or programmatically using the API. Timelines are public, have their own pages on twitter.com, and can easily…

  • Wait, wasn’t Twitter supposed to be dead by now?

    Splat F lists the touted Twitter killers that weren’t. Seems like Twitter has more than nine lives.