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Twitter is about to start checking your phone to find out what other apps you have installed on it. The purpose, according to Twitter, is to “deliver tailored content that you might be interested in.” It would be reasonable to assume that the information gathered from your “app graph” will be used by Twitter to select which ads you will
Recently, Twitpic announced that it would be shutting down on October 25, 2014. That's not exactly what happened, though. Instead, it appears that Twitpic and Twitter have managed to form an agreement that will keep the links to Twitpic photos active. That being said, Twitpic isn't accepting any new users. Twitpic posted a blog on October 25, 2014, called “Twitpic's
Twitter very recently made a change to what happens when a user blocks another one. After receiving lots of feedback, Twitter announced that it was going to restore block functionality back to the way that it originally was. It kind of surprised me how quickly Twitter responded to user feedback on this issue. Previous to this whole situation, a person
On November 24, 2013, researchers at Trustwave discovered that hackers have obtained up to 2 million passwords for websites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter (and others). Researchers learned this after digging into source code from Pony bonnet. It appears that information about this has only been made public very recently. Here's some quick stats about some of the domains from
Today I was trying to send a direct message to a friend. Included was a bit.ly link to a page I needed him to see. For some reason, Twitter kept saying there was an error and cannot send the DM. After checking his page to make sure he was still following me and sending a couple test DMs successfully, I
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Vine is the Twitter service that will let you push a six second video to your Twitter and Facebook fans. For a long time you could do that on your iOS devices. This morning, Twitter's Blog announced Vine will be available for Android devices. One interesting feature Vine has is the stop-motion option. You only record when your finger is