Twitter has relaunched its Blue Subscription service, which gives users who sign up a blue tick badge, the ability to edit tweets and a range of other features in exchange for a £6.50 monthly fee.
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Twitter is to expand a feature called Tweet Tiles in order to enhance links to certain NFT marketplaces.
Elon Musk, has completed his acquisition of Twitter, with the social media group confirming the deal in a brief filing on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday morning, disclosing the deal had closed the day before.
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Twitter has sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday in an attempt to force him to buy the social media firm, setting up a legal battle with the world's richest man.
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ELON Musk has said his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” over details around the number of spam and fake accounts present on the site.
The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn (£34.5bn) takeover offer from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Twitter has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a formal offer to purchase Twitter outright for $43 billion. Musk has filed an updated 13D with the SEC, offering $54.20 per share for 100 percent control of the social media platform.
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Twitter is rolling out a new feature for Android users, finally allowing them to search their Direct Messages (DMs).
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Twitter now allows Android and iOS users to upload and view 4K images on the Twitter app. The social media platform had previously rolled out support for 4K images on the web app, which allowed users to share images in high resolution. The fe
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Twitter is experiencing a widespread security breach, resulting in a number of high profile accounts encouraging their followers to send Bitcoin to an unknown account.
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Twitter is starting to test a new feature that will give users the ability to control just who can reply to their tweets.
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Google has launched a new service that allows Android users to get solutions for their Android smartphone related queries.
Twitter says it has patched a critical vulnerability in its Android app that could have potentially let malicious actors view information of private accounts and take over profiles through an intricate back-end process.
Several tweets circulating the Twitter platform are asking users to change their birth year to 2007 in order to make their feeds look "colourful". Falling for this hoax tweet, several users went ahead and changed their birth years to 2007. This obviously did not change the way their feeds looked, but instead, locked them out of their accounts for being under age.
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Back in March 2018, BlackBerry sued Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp over messaging patents. Within months, Facebook counter-sued BlackBerry for similar reasons. Both cases are still in litigation, but BlackBerry has now filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter.
Last month, Twitter announced the ability to switch between seeing top Tweets first or seeing the latest Tweets first. That said, the feature was initially rolled out to iOS first, promising Android users will get their turn soon. The company has now turned on the feature for Android users.
It happens time and time again, a smartphone maker tweets from a competitors device. Occasionally it can be embarrassing, and a lot of the time a whole lot of fuss is made out of nothing. However, Huawei's post to its official Twitter account on New Years Eve definitely came under the embarrassing category.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter today announced the Data Transfer Project, a joint open-source project aimed at helping users securely and seamlessly move their data between service providers. This open source project will create new capabilities for direct data portability between participating service providers.
Twitter has identified a bug that stored users passwords unmasked in an internal log. While the company has already fixed the bug, and their own investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone, the company is advising all users to change their passwords.
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Twitter has announced changes to its API that will massively reduce the impact of services that allow links and content to be shared across multiple accounts, i.e. the software that powers Twitter bots. This should bring an end to services that let those controlling large numbers of accounts to batch tweet, follow users, retweet or like tweets.
Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users "easily express themselves". Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users.
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Swyx is considered to be one of the top 100 influencers on Twitter when it comes to "unified communications" according to a new report from Influencer Relationship Management company, Onalytica.
Nearly 100 US technology companies have filed a legal brief opposing President Trump’s ban on migration from seven Muslim-majority countries, arguing that it imposes significant burdens on the industry.
BlackBerry has announced that they will be holding a Facebook Live event today (Thursday, July 28) where BlackBerry's Global Head of Device Sales, Alex Thurber will be hosting a Q&A session.
Twitter announced today a new online application process for users wanting to apply for verified status and score their own blue badge of honour.
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Japanese company Line has set the price of its IPO at 3,330 yen per share, meaning it could raise as much as $1.3bn when it goes public.
BlackBerry are re-introducing their "BlackBerry Fan of the Month" feature, where they feature a BlackBerry fan on their company blog once a month. It was one of those features that served very little purpose.
New innovations spanning Azure, Visual Studio and Office can help developers build cutting-edge apps, for every device, that help businesses and consumers achieve more.
Twitter today unveiled a new Twitter timeline that shows tweets at the top that the service recommends, instead of the most recent tweets.
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ProtonMail, a Switzerland-based encrypted email service, is still fighting against an "extremely powerful DDoS attack" that has left its service largely unavailable since Tuesday.
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Twitter is implementing a small but significant change by switching favorites to likes and changing the star shape to a heart.
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BlackBerry COO Marty Beard has since taken to twiiter to announce that pre-order for the BlackBerry Priv will go live on Friday, October 23.
Periscope has implemented a new feature that allows user to set up Web profiles. This will make it easier for users to keep a track of streams for people you follow.
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Prime Minister's Office Director General Eli Groner met on Tuesday morning with BlackBerry CEO John Chen to discuss BlackBerry's growth strategy in Israel.
BlackBerry have congratulated Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes AMG Petronas Team on Twitter. However, they may just have inadvertedly (or deliberately) leaked a picture of the upcoming BlackBerry Slider.
Real-time monitoring of tweets by keyword and user location is now available through Twiloco, a free browser-based tool and ios and Android mobile monitoring app from UK developer Triden Elite.
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Twitter has confirmed that they have removed wallpapers from users' home and notifications timelines on Twitter.com.
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Another high profile BlackBerry employee has opted to leave the company as Donny Halliwell, Senior Product Marketing Manager at BlackBerry, has announced he has left BlackBerry for Hootsuite.
Barack Obama’s press team have been tweeting away at @BarackObama for years. Today, with a tweet from the Oval Office, President Obama launched @POTUS, the official Twitter account of the President of the United States.
Meerkat, the live streaming app that lets you stream videos live to your twitter followers has now released its API for developers.
The Turkish Government has blocked access to YouTube and Twitter in the country after both refused to take down images of a murdered Istanbul prosecutor.
With social content sharing at an all-time high, the new app from Markr now makes it possible to “visually hashtag†and share photos/videos to multiple social channels simultaneously.
Twitter is acquiring Niche, a New York startup that matches social media stars with advertisers, helping Twitter tap into the lucrative world of Internet celebrity.
Average Monthly Active Users (MAUs) were 288 million for the fourth quarter. Twitter has announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2014.
Jeff Gordon, Senior Global Online Communications Manager at HTC, has confirmed on Twitter today that Android Lollipop 5.0 is now rolling out for the HTC One M8 in Europe.
Twitter has launched its ‘While you were away’ feature on iOS this week, with an Android and web rollout to follow.
The idea is to catch you up on as much relevant content as possible from the time you leave the app until you reopen it.
Twitter for Windows phone has received an update that includes Cortana integration. Users will be able to launch and send a tweet using Microsoft’s virtual intelligent assistance.
Twitter has announced that it has agreed to acquire Bangalore, India-based mobile business and brand platform developer ZipDial for an undisclosed sum.
Although the world’s top brands have a Twitter presence, they have a long way to go when it comes to engaging customers, according to a new report from Freshdesk, a leading provider of cloud-based customer support software.
Three months after being acquired by facebook, WhatsApp have announced that they now have 700 million monthly active users, with users sending over 30 billion messages a day.
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Tundra Core Studios have released ‘Heads Up’ – a native BlackBerry 10 utility application that takes advantage of your device’s rear camera and provides a text area to allow you to type and walk.
The YotaPhone 2 will be unveiled to the world on December 3, at a special invite-only to-do in London. The firm took to Twitter to announce that YotaPhone 2 will be presented December 3.
Bsquare today announced it will be showcasing its DataV Internet of Things (IoT) products and services solution at the Internet of Things Expo, November 4 – 6, 2014, in Santa Clara, California.
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Fleksy today released a major update to its iOS app. Building on the international success of Fleksy on Android, this...
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A new video has appeared online revealing pretty much everything there is to know about the upcoming HTC M8.
Nokia has announced not one but three Nokia Android-powered devices: Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL. All three devices...
Tundra Core Studios have released an upgrade to their Native BlackBerry 10 eBay application: Shopping For eBay. The latest update,...
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