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Twitter Founder Slams Instagram

With the recent news of Instagram now with more users than Twitter the companies co-founder, Evan Williams, had a lot to say to the press with his own comments: “If you think about the impact Twitter has on the world versus Instagram, it’s pretty significant. It’s at least apples to oranges,” ...

17 Dec
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Favourites are The New Retweets on Twitter

Some users are reporting seeing tweets favourited by others in their timeline in a similar fashion as retweets. Some users are seeing a few tweets in their timelines that have been marked as favourites by accounts they follow. The verge reports: “Twitter has fundamentally only shown tweets and retweets posted by accounts ...

18 Aug
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PlayStation 4 to walk in the footsteps of Xbox One by adding 3D Blu-ray functionality

That was fast. Just a few days after Microsoft announced that they will add 3D Blu-ray functionality to the Xbox One, Sony have moved fast enough to esnure they don’t lose any market. Play station 4 will also get that update as early as next week. PlayStation tweeted about the update, ...

24 Jul
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Buy and Sell Coming to Social Media Soon

Twitter and Facebook who are the big guns callings shots in the social media arena, are looking to e-commerce as the newest battleground. Twitter announced in a blog post last week that it had agreed to acquire CardSpring, a mobile payments infrastructure company that allows merchants to offer deals to consumers ...

21 Jul
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Pictures and opinions top what most people share on social networks [Infographic]

People share most things on social networks hoping to get other users who are like minded, or to start a conversation with friends, or show that they care for humanity. Whatever the reasons, it’s no doubt that there are a lot of us sharing information with each other, people we have ...

16 Jul
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These memes summarize the world cup from the beginning to the end as seen on Social media

The event that was one of the most awaited events in 2014 began in mid-June and has come to it’s unavoidable end. Suffice to say that most football enthusiasts don’t want the world cup to end because of the twists and turns its presented. It’s been the best series and ...

14 Jul
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Couples who spend the most time on Twitter most likely to be unfaithful and break up, study reveals.

Research has revealed that twitter might in fact be encouraging cheating in relationships and marriages, consequently being a reason for break-ups. The study carried out by a group from the University of Missouri-Columbia on 580 Twitter users provided more information about the cause for these break ups. One of the reasons was that couples ...

7 Jul
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Its now Harder To Tell Facebook and Twitter Apart

On Tuesday, Twitter introduced a new profile look based on a photo-centric redesign in a blog post earlier today. The new design is now displaying a cover photo and profile picture in a very similar to the way its cousin facecook does. According to Twitter’s blog, the changes start rolling out immediately, ...

9 Apr
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The death of the “Retweet” button and the beginning of the “Share” button on Twitter

Twitter has been accused of copying Facebook as it strives to make Twitter more impressive and user-friendly. This came after it was verified that the retweet button is coming to the end of its lifetime, at least for now, as Twitter begins to experiment on the “share with followers” option. ...

6 Apr
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Vine update introduces private video and text messaging

Twitter which owns Vine announced on Thursday that it was adding an option for private messages sent using the service’s looping short videos. In a blog post by product manager for Vine, Jason Toff says “From Vine’s early days, we recognized that there was a growing desire and need for ...

4 Apr
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