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Facebook, Twitter Releases App For Google Glass

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Facebook today launched an app for the much-in-hype Google Glass gadget, a computing eyewear. The Facebook app for Google Glass allow uploading of photos from the gadget directly to the Facebook timeline. More interesting is that a photo description can be added by just saying the information loud. Presently the app does not allow tagging [...]

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Finally The Real Bill Clinton Joins Twitter

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Yes, this time it is the real Bill Clinton. He is now officially on Twitter, probably more influenced by Anthony Weiner and Stephen Colbert. In just few initial minutes after his joining,, more than 198,000 people from across the world have started following Bill Clinton’s Twitter account. Remember, Mr Clinton was inveigled by Colbert recently [...]

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Twitter Soon To Roll Out Two-Factor Authentication Password Access

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After recent embarrassing password hack of Associated Press’ Twitter account and also that of CBS News, the microblogging site has come up with new password security control. Twitter has been reportedly working on developing up two-factor authentication for password verification and internal testing is already being carried before it finds perfect for rolling out. Earlier [...]

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Twitter Completes 7 Years, Reaches 200M Active User Milestone

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Twitter today completes 7 years. The social network celebrates seventh birthday and it is also added with good news of reaching 200 million active user milestone. In 2006 Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey published the first tweet. He wrote on the platform “just setting up my Twitter.” Then, the platform just started as a microblogging website [...]

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Twitter Releases Windows 8 Official App

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Twitter today released the official app for Windows 8 and it is now made available on Microsoft’s Windows Store. The app has been uniquely tailor made for the Windows 8 smartphones and tablets, said the social platform. There are several utility features added to the Twitter app besides the usual Connect, discover, Home and Me [...]

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Promoted Trends price hiked on Twitter to $200K

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Did I read it correct on one of the tech sites that promoted trends cost $200k now on Twitter? Yes, Cnet reports such that this price hike of 33 percent compared to 2012 went into effect in early 2013. All Things D reports that the microblogging site has now increased the price by 150 percent [...]

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How to share Vine video on Twitter privately

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Twitter very recently launched a new  video sharing app named Vine for iPhone and iPod touch. It allows users to compose and share six-second videos. At present, there is no provision for one’s videos,or files to be shared secretly. Well, it is an easy method to still be creative with the app. This can be [...]

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Censored video clips crowds Twitter’s Vine

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Twitter unveiled Vine just few days ago and the app has already been crowded with censored video clippings. Vine is a video-sharing app for iPhone and iPod Touch by Twitter. The Vine app allows anyone to develop and share six-second video clips. However, in quick time it has become a popular site for male gender [...]

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French Court To Deal With Strict Laws With Racist Tweeters

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The French authorities have ordered Twitter to hand over the identities of users in France who post racist tweets. The court’s ruling came from a test case “that pitted the right to free speech against laws banning hate speech.” The UEJF had demanded that Twitter do a better job of policing anti-Semitic tweets. Later Twitter [...]

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Twitter embeds 6-sec Instagram for video – Vine

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Vine, an app for iPhone and iPod Touch that lets anyone create and share short looping videos, has been now revealed by Twitter. Twitter took charge of Vine last autumn. However, the service is clearly meant to be embedded. Vine videos are limited for of 6 seconds, and play in a continuous loop using the [...]

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