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
How well do you know your Windows key shortcuts in Windows 10? If you need a cheat sheet, Microsoft has just published one that you can download and print. While Microsoft already offers online documentation on keyboard shortcuts, the format of the page can be difficult to sift through. Fortunately, Microsoft now offers an offline … More Cheat sheet! Microsoft releases printable Windows 10 key shortcut list
The San Francisco-based social network said Tuesday that users will be able share longer videos as well as see longer-form videos on Vine, its short-looping video service. Twitter is making it easier for its users to create longer videos and to track who’s watching them. Twitter Previous video uploads were limited to about 30 seconds, … More Twitter goes long(er) with users’ video uploads
Even though Google sometimes reaches over into the territory of being too invasive or a bit overreaching with its services, it can often get away with it thanks to it’s insistence on not being evil. In contrast, when Facebook violates the privacy of its ussiteers, there is usually a fair amount of outcry about it. … More Twitter third party clients continue to shut down and its API is just getting more restrictive
Whether you’re writing to complain to customer service, or just want to hear back from a coworker at the office, these six email rules will increase your chances of hearing back. The purpose of writing an email to someone is usually to get a response, but more often than not, emails get passed over or … More Get More Responses to Your Emails With These Six Simple Rules
Were you panicking at the thought of Twitter messing with your timeline order? Were you declaring #RIPTwitter and getting ready to move to Peach? Relax. Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has piped up to say that there’s no truth to the rumors of a Facebook-like feed arriving next week. It was “never planned,” he says. In fact, … More Twitter says your timeline isn’t changing
Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company. Twitter didn’t comment on the report,and News Corp apparently denied the rumor, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the … More Twitter stock is seeing a mini-rally today after hitting an all-time low yesterday, on rumors that News Corp was eyeing a tie-up with the company.
When Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet on March 21 2006, it was still 294 days until Steve Jobs would unveil the iPhone. There were no apps, and mobile phone messages were almost exclusively sent by text. The limits of text messages were precisely how Dorsey and his fellow founders arrived at the 140-character limit … More Removing Twitter’s 140-character limit is Jack Dorsey’s biggest gamble yet
Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1, according to multiple sources familiar with the company’s plans. Twitter is currently considering a 10,000 character … More Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
Google’s Chrome web browser keeps getting better. According to a new post on Google+, the company says that, starting on September 1st, Chrome will begin to pause many Flash ads by default in order to improve performance for its users. This change was first announced in June, and initially rolled out to the beta version of the … More Chrome Will Begin Pausing Flash Ads By Default, Starting In September
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