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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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Instagram Tops Twittter With Over 300M Users

Instagram passes Twitter with over 300 million users with Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram making the following announcement last week: “We’re proud to announce that there are now more than 300 million Instagrammers. Over the past four years, what began as two friends with a dream has grown into a global community that ...

15 Dec
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NEWS TWITTER

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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SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER

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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Biggest Tech Buys this week

This week is a big week in the stock market as every company wants to buy the other. I went around the net and collected for you the most interesting tech buys. 1) Twitter buys social data provider Gnip Twitter Inc said it bought social data provider Gnip to provide ...

15 Apr
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SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER

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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SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER

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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SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER

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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NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA TWITTER

Free at Last!! Twitter unblocked in Turkey after Constitutional Court ruling

A day after the highest court in Turkey ruled against the banning of Twitter in Turkey, the government has moved to unblock the social media network therefore allowing it’s citizens to continue using the service without tweaking the DNS. The government’s officials have said that the ban was lifted after ...

3 Apr
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Do you have a Google Plus account for your brand? If not, see why you might need to get it today.

A Forrester Research analyst says marketers will be crazy to ignore Google Plus in marketing their brand. Nate Elliot who carried out his analysis based on 60,000 adults in the United States claims that 22% of those adults had visited Google Plus within the last month. “That’s the same number ...