Category: Twitter

It was exactly one decade ago that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the world’s first tweet, and now there’s close to half a billion tweets being posted each day. However, there are a few problems that have plagued Twitter over the last ten years that continue to plague it to this day, such as the fact that… Continue reading Twitter is now a decade old

Rumors that Twitter is planning to remove it 140-character limit for tweets have been popping up for a couple of months, and while CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that his company considered removing the limit, it’s decided against it. The being said, it’s still within the realm of possibility that Twitter will release some way to… Continue reading Twitter’s 140-character limit is here to stay

Facebook is successful, and Twitter is struggling. Those two facts are all the justification Twitter needs for adding more Facebook-like features with every update, it seems. The latest such update will land as soon as next week, according to a report from BuzzFeed on Friday, and will completely overhaul Twitter’s timeline by displaying tweets based… Continue reading Twitter is becoming more like Facebook with every update

We won’t know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the company’s top executives, including the head of Vine. The departure of media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil were first reported by Re/code on… Continue reading Twitter just lost four of its top executives

Would Instagram would be as popular as it is today if it didn’t limit its users with its square images? What about Snapchat and its ten-second messages, or Vine and its six-second videos? The answer is no, because those limitations are what keep things clean and simple for users. That being said, many apps and services… Continue reading Twitter might be removing its 140-character limit for tweets

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Politwoops is a website that allows people to see all the stupid crap that politicians have said on Twitter, even if those tweets were deleted. It’s a brilliant service, and one that more people should be taking advantage of, but the problem is, the website isn’t able to archive deleted… Continue reading Twitter will allow Politwoops to archive the tweets of politicians again

If there’s one thing that Twitter has in abundance, other than spam bots, it’s trolls. The sheer amount of malicious users on Twitter has caused many people to stop using the service entirely, which is obviously the last thing the company wants. That’s why it’s been making some serious efforts to purge trolls from its services… Continue reading Twitter is trying to purge malicious users from its services

Unlike with most social networks, it’s actually really easy to use Twitter without an account, so much so that the company estimates that there are somewhere around 500 million Twitter users that aren’t accounted for in normal usage statistics because they don’t have an account. Users that don’t have accounts are not only not included… Continue reading Twitter wants to monetize its 500 million users who don’t have accounts