The next time you take a break from your labors and check Twitter.com on your computer, you can flit about the social-networking site more efficiently with a few keyboard shortcuts. Here is a baker’s dozen of the most helpful of the bunch. 1. Page down and up As you can on other web pages, hit … More 13 keyboard shortcuts for Twitter addicts
Twitter is announcing a few new anti-harassment features today: You’ll now be able to mute specific words — including other usernames — from your timeline, not just your notifications. You can mute words indefinitely, or for a day, week or month. You’ll be able to mute “eggs.” That is, accounts that still use the default … More Twitter will now let you mute specific words from your timeline — and mute ‘eggs’ without profile photos
The thinking behind Twitter’s replacement for the troll-favorite egg profile photo is a vaguely human placeholder that is unpleasant enough to encourage people to replace it with a custom icon. We noticed that some people kept the egg default profile photo because they thought it was fun and cute, but we want people to use … More Twitter replaces egg with genderless head and shoulders icon
Twitter has always been free to use and will likely remain free. But the company is now considering offering its first paid subscription service through TweetDeck. The social network has recently sent emails to select users, asking if they’d be willing to pay for a “more advanced Tweetdeck experience.” Based on the email posted by … More Twitter mulls offering a Tweetdeck subscription service
iOS/Chrome: If you like to collect together different links, whether that’s for organizing a vacation or just random cool stuff, Shout makes it easy to do so, then turn that collection into a list of stuff other people can see. Shout works something like a more public-facing Pocket and takes the idea of Pocket’s public … More Shout Makes It Easy to Curate a List of Links, Send Them Off to Friends
Twitter is putting online bullies in “time out.” As one of the company’s many new anti-abuse measures, users whose accounts have been identified engaging in abusive behavior will have the reach of their tweets temporarily restricted. During this time, the abuser’s tweets will only be shown to their followers, Twitter says. The change was spotted by BuzzFeed, … More Twitter starts putting abusers in “time out”
You think you’ve crafted the perfect Tweet. You hit the big blue button to set it live — only to realise you’ve made an “unpresidented” typo. Editing is something many of us would like to see on microblogging social network Twitter, and as it turns out, CEO Jack Dorsey would too. On Thursday, he asked … More Could editing be coming to Tweets?
After years of speculation, it appears that Twitter did actually develop a messaging app of its own. But, two caveats, it was intended for emerging markets and it was killed off before ever being released to the masses. That’s according to a report from BuzzFeed, which claims the app was developed by Twitter’s emerging markets team … More Twitter reportedly developed, then killed off, a messaging app for emerging markets
There’s beeen a lot of talk recently about the death of Twitter. This year’s Q3 Letter to Shareholders announced a 9 percent workforce reduction and the shuttering of “non-core” features. Vine, Twitter’s six-second video platform loved by fans of stop-motion photography (and almost no one else), will close just three years after launch. With 85 … More WHY TWITTER ISN’T GOING AWAY
If you’re a social media manager and you’re taking care of more than one account, you probably already know about TweetDeck. If you don’t, now is the chance to get familiar with it – it’s a great social media dashboard application where you can manage multiple Twitter accounts on the one interface. But more than that, it’s also a great … More 5 TweetDeck Tricks and Tips To Try Out
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