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Twitter will be making two new policy changes. One is related to prohibited content. The other is about how they will enforce certain policy violations. The goal is to reduce the amount of abuse that Twitter users could find themselves subjected to. More specifically, they have updated their violent threats policy. It now extends to “threats of violence against others
Twitter announced today that the company is updating its direct messaging system so that it's no longer a requirement for accounts to follow each other in order to send direct messages. Previously, users could only send direct messages to accounts that were following them. From the Twitter blog: Changes include: A setting that allows you to receive Direct Messages from
I prefer to access my various Twitter accounts thru the TweetDeck web interface. It organizes all of the different accounts and their associated streams very well, and it makes it much easier and more enjoyable to use Twitter. Today, TweetDeck announced a new "Teams" feature, which will allow multiple users to access the same Twitter accounts but those users won't
Twitter has created some new tools that will make it easier for people to advertise on Twitter. A brand new homepage has been created for analytics.twitter.com and it has been given a new name – Account Home. The Account Home service is accessible not only for brands that have Twitter accounts, but also for regular Twitter users. It gives users
The official Google Cloud Platform Twitter account posted a rather confusing tweet that included a controversial hashtag today. It's unclear exactly what message they were intending to send with that particular tweet, but it definitely got a lot of attention. This situation is a good example of why brands should take the time to understand a hashtag before including it
You've probably seen tweets from authors who are trying to get their book in front of the eyes of their Twitter followers. Soon, some authors will be able to use Twitter to do more than that. Hachette is about to start selling some of its books through Twitter. How will this work? Hachette is partnering with Gumroad (a company that
Twitter has begun rolling out changes that are intended to make your Twitter experience safer. It has become very clear that Twitter needed to make improvements that would prevent people from continually harassing other Twitter users. The new changes include improvements to the “block” feature and an easier way to report harassment and abuse. Twitter posted a blog that described