Twitter announced that users won’t have to use the third party platforms to share photos on Twitter, rather Twitter’s web and mobile service will give them the facility to upload photos without using any of third party platforms. This is interesting, but the question is, if the importance of apps like Yfrog and TwitPic will [...]
Twitter Launches Photo And Video Sharing Service, Personalizes Search Queries
by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Jun, 2011 in Twitter
Twitter is partnering with Firefox to ensure the accuracy of the search results and with Photobucket for connecting photos to the tweets. Until now, photos and videos were not allowed to be uploaded on Twitter and could only be shared on the micro-blogging site through third party clients such as Twitpic and Yfrog. But [...]
Twitter Introduces The Follow Button
by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Jun, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter
Twitter introduced the follow button, a significantly new feature. The functionality of the follow button is to enable users to follow Twitter accounts by just one click. In a sense, the follow button will be the complementary of the tweet button — the tweet button is for sharing while the follow button is to build [...]
Twitter To Launch Its Own Photo-Sharing Service?
by Shabbir Akhtar on 31. May, 2011 in Social Media Tools, Twitter
Today, both TechCrunch and AllThingsD reported that Twitter will launch its own photo sharing service to compete with its clients TwitPic and Yfrog. Neither of them cited any official source. AllThingsD however wrote that the launching of this new service will be officially announced at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Earlier this year, [...]
New Twitter Feature Lets You See Other Users’ Timeline
by Shabbir Akhtar on 27. May, 2011 in Twitter
Twitter has introduced to users, a new feature that allow them to view the network from the perspective of the people, whom they follow. After signing into Twitter, when users will click on the ‘Following’ link and select a user from the list, they will be able to see the timeline of that user.
The good [...]
Twitter-TweetDeck Confirm Acquisition Deal
by Shabbir Akhtar on 26. May, 2011 in Twitter
Finally, the rumor on procurement of TweetDeck by Twitter is confirmed. In their official blog posts, both Twitter and TweetDeck confirmed the authenticity of the news. Twitter wrote in its blog, “This acquisition is an important step forward for us. TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the [...]
Twitter Introduces New Restrictions And Permissions Screen To Improve Users’ Privacy
by Shabbir Akhtar on 19. May, 2011 in Twitter
Twitter introduced a new feature to give users more control over privacy. There are lots of third party apps in Twitter and until today they had automatic OAuth access to the direct messages of users. But from now on, it will change.
To access a user’s direct message, an app will first have to take permission [...]
The Effect Of Twitter On Students’ Grades
by Shabbir Akhtar on 17. May, 2011 in Infographic, Social Media Tools, Twitter
Experts are now considering social media as an effective tool to be utilized for education. An infographic that master-degree-online.com has published, complies with this. A study was conducted upon 125 students amongst whom 70 students were in the first group and 55 were in second.
As both these groups were approaching to the semester exam, the [...]
Twitter Users Are Bolder Than Facebook Users At Asking For new Likes, Follows, Fans
by Shabbir Akhtar on 12. May, 2011 in Facebook, Infographic, Twitter
Alterian and Sevans carried out a research to find out the percentage of requests, be it friend me or follow me on social networks, which one user sends to others. They run keyword search across various social net working and blogging platforms like Flickr, Blogger, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Twitter.
After tracking around 3.3 million [...]
The Social Media Usage Trends of Men And Women
by Shabbir Akhtar on 11. May, 2011 in Facebook, Infographic, Twitter
A web analytics site called KissMetrics published an infographic on social media demographics. They were made considering age, gender, education level of the users. For creating the demographics, two major social networks were used as resources; Facebook and Twitter. MySpace, Digg and YouTube were also used side by side.
The infographic shows that women use social [...]
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