The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter’s New Profiles Are Now Available to Everyone”. Colin Daileda says, “Twitter’s redesigned profiles, which the company has been testing for months, are now available to everyone. The Facebook-like redesign emphasizes larger text, images and a customizable profile that is designed to be a more in-depth summary about the user. You can activate your new profilehere. The new rollout showcases a user’s most popular tweets in a larger font. Users can also pin a specific tweet at the top of their feed, and they can... [...]
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The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Mobile Ads on Twitter Will Now Promote App Downloads”. Todd Wasserman says, “You will soon start seeing ads on Twitter‘s mobile app for other apps. The company announced a mobile app install suite on Thursday, which leverages Twitter’s 2013 MoPub acquisition to let marketers advertise both on Twitter and off Twitter. Twitter officially announced the ad units on Thursday, but the news was reported in The Wall Street Journal weeks ago, and some Twitter users also reported seeing the ads earlier in the month. Twitter has... [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “With Gnip, Twitter Is Ready To Sell Your Tweets”. Selena Larson says, “Gnip was once a neutral provider of social data, but now that neutrality is gone, and it’s in the hands of Twitter. Twitter on Tuesday announced the acquisition of social data analytics startup Gnip, which is one of the only companies with access to Twitter’s firehose of data—all the tweets and activity streams on Twitter since the platform launched in 2006. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Twitter will bring both the revenue and data streams... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Acquires Data Startup Gnip”. Jason Abbruzzese says, “Twitter is acquiring social data analytics firm Gnip, a step that will give the microblogging service more control over the monetization of its data. The value of the deal was not immediately disclosed, but Gnip has raised $6.6 million in funding. Gnip was the first company to be authorized to resell Twitter’s historical data. Twitter and Gnip announced a partnership in 2010 that provided the “firehose” of data to clients, helping to generate revenue from... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Announces Pop-Up Notifications for Web”. Kurt Wagner says, “Twitter is bringing notification alerts to the web. The company announced Thursday that users who access Twitter.com will soon receive pop-up notifications when others on the platform engage with them — for example, when a user retweets, mentions or messages them. The notification will appear in the lower-right hand corner of the user’s timeline. They are also interactive; you can follow someone back or reply to a message directly from the notification“. Twitter... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Automattic, Maker of WordPress, Acquires Longreads”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Longreads is celebrating its fifth birthday by getting a new owner. Longreads, which curates longform stories from around the web, has been acquired byAutomattic, the company behind WordPress. The two companies announced the deal late Wednesday. Terms were not immediately disclosed. “We see a huge opportunity to go deeper with our mission, both through Longreads and WordPress.com, to find undiscovered talent, to celebrate the work of writers and publishers... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter’s New Profiles: Everything You Need to Know”. Lance Ulanoff says, “The rumors and feature teases are true: New Twitter profiles are here, with a brand-new, yet oddly familiar, look. The new design is rolling out slowly, unless you’re a celebrity or a new user. And it may represent a real turning point. Like many people who live on Twitter, I don’t look at my own profile page very often. I spend most of my time on the Twitter.com homepage to see tweets from all the accounts I follow, and my Notifications page... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Acquires Cover, an Android Lock Screen App”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Twitter has acquired Cover, an Android lock screen app, the two companies announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Cover was founded by former Google employees and launched on an invitation-only basis in October. Cover displays the six apps on the Android lock screen that users are most likely to want to use, based on daily analysis of the user’s smartphone habits and the current context (whether you’re at home, work or... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Twitter Launches Photo Tagging (Get Ready)”. Corey Eridon says, “Good/horrifying news: Soon, you’ll be able to tag photos of people on Twitter. They’re also allowing you to add up to four photos per tweet and tag 10 people per photo, so you could conceivably embarrass 40 people in just 140 characters. Talk about efficiency. Tagging doesn’t count toward a tweet’s 140-limit character count, and you’ll get notified if someone tags you in a tweet. The tagged photos will even display in embedded tweets“. Twitter... [...]
The latest article on ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Twitter Adds Photo Tags That Will Notify Others (Yet Won’t Count Toward Your 140 Characters)”. Greg Finn says, “Imagine Ellen trying to tag everyone in her Oscar selfie and still having room enough to insert a joke about Bradley Cooper’s arm length. It wouldn’t happen. Until now the only way to notify a user that they’ve been included in a photo is to make sure that their Twitter handle is included in the body of the Tweet. Until now. Twitter has announced that users will have the ability to tag up to 10... [...]