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After  hacking the Twitter account of the Associated Press and tweeting out a fake news tweet that The White House had been bombed  and President Obama hurt, Syrian Electronic Army has now targeted the  The Guardian. According to a blog post  by the Syrian Electronic Army , 11 Guardian accounts were compromised over the weekend. Guardian’s Guardian Business and Sustainable Business had [...]

Twitter has at last refreshed its Mac desktop application after two years with a few new features.  It released a Mac app with simplified photo-sharing options, support for Retina displays, and 14 new languages. Today we’re announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It’s easier than ever to share photos. Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose [...]

Tumblr  released an updated iOS app on Wednesday, improvements includes new sharing features that allows Twitter and Facebook sharing, linking to third party apps like Tweetbot, the ability to save content for later reading and new templates for sharing posts through email. Tumblr detailed the new features in a Blog Post What’s New in Version 3.3.1 Now you can do more than just reblog when you [...]

The twitter feed of news agency Associated Press (AP) was hacked, and “reported” that there was an explosion at The White House, injuring US President Barack Obama. The tweet came around 5 pm BST. The tweet was identified as fake as no other news agencies are reporting any situation at the White House. The false tweets had it repercussions, the US stock market briefly tanked. The Dow Jones [...]

Twitter introduced a new music discovery app called Twitter #music on Thursday. Twitter provided more information in a Blog Post.   “Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also [...]

Twitter advertisers rejoice, Twitter has introduced changes to its ad platform which will let advertisers to target ads to Twitter users based on the words used in the tweets and deliver ads based on those keywords. The feature called ‘keyword targeting in timelines‘, and its available today in 15 languages and all markets. Twitter says that this does not mean more ads for the users, only that [...]

Twitter was fast in rolling out the new Twitter Card formats Twitter’s mobile iPhone and Android apps and mobile.twitter.com. Twitter for Android gets a brand new look and feel to the social app which according to Twitter  “reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.” New in this [...]

Twitter came out with a new functionality on Tuesday which is meant to help mobile app developers make money, the new feature last night called “Cards” lets developers to display photos, app information and products for sale in a more visual, prominent manner. Twitter provided additional details in a blog post about the new features.  The “Deep-Linking” feature allows any card [...]

Twitter turns  seven year old today, seven years ago  Twitter creator Jack Dorsey first tweeted. over the years, the social network has gathered over 200 million users who generate over 400 million tweets each day. ‘There’s an old English 

Twitter is reportedly introducing a standalone music app, which could be released on the iOS by the end of this month according to a Cnet report. Twitter purchased  music discovery startup We Are Hunted last year, according to the report. Since the acquisition, Twitter has been using its technology to develop an app called Twitter Music. The report add “Twitter Music, which is set to arrive [...]