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Twitter’s new video sharing platform, Vine is causing the company some embarassment, some people have been using it for porn ads and naked images. By searching for the tags “#porn” or similar NSFW words, you can find content featuring exhibitionists of various stripes as well as porn video taken directly from laptop screens. The app, which is currently only available for iPhone and iPod Touch, [...]

Twitter has improved embedded tweets by adding a couple of new features,  embedded tweet boxes have been redesigned to enhance readability, and to display more context  like retweet and favorite counts.   “Embedded Tweets make it easy for publishers and developers to use Tweets in their content, and today we’re excited to share a number of updates that make the product better and easier [...]

Twitter may not have reached Facebook’s landmark of a Billion users, but, it’s growing at a steady pace, the popular micro-blogging service now has more than 200 million active users around the world, with some 10 million of those in the UK. What’s notable is that it has seen more than 45% growth in the last 8 months, it had around 140 million in May with major events such as the [...]

Twitter released its 2012 Year In Review  on Tuesday which reflect upon what happened on Twitter this year. Here’s what Twitter had to say: Every day, we’re amazed and humbled by the many ways in which people use Twitter, which range from simply retweeting to igniting conversations with hashtags (even around lesser-known topics) to sharing spectacular and far-flung views. In 2012, everyone on [...]

Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo announced a re-design, with the option to include a large header photo across the top of Twitter user profile pages few weeks ago. Starting on December 12,all Twitter users will be forced over to use the “cover photo”, ala Facebook and other services. Twitter announced the changes in a Blog post. “A few months ago, we introduced new Twitter profiles so that [...]

Twitter and it’s subsidiary Tweetdeck faces a fine of £375 after failing to file its latest company accounts on time. The company was due to lodge its annual accounts no later than September, but has still not done so, according to Companies House. As a result Twitter and TweetDeck , have been charged with automatic penalty charges by the Cardiff based authority, according to Sky News. Twitter [...]

Tweetro one of the most popular downloads in the Windows Store and the first Twitter app that uses the “Metro” tiled interface that distinguishes Windows 8 was refused extra “tokens” beyond the permissible 100,000 tokens that would allow more than 100,000 users to access Twitter through Tweetro and to grow its user base. Until the time Windows 8 gets a native Twitter app , [...]

Close on the heels of  Facebook’s new mobile share button, Twitter has today added an option to “Share this tweet via email” so you can send content to recipients via email. Sharing via email button appears in the ‘more’ menu alongside reply, favorite, and retweet. It could be a powerful way to spread the service and convince new people to sign up. It’s rolling out over the next few days. [...]

If you believed that Twitter’s popularity was waning down, you may be just right – Facebook’s owned Instagram had garnered more app users attention than Twitter. According to a ComScore study reported by AllThingsD last month U.S. mobile users “visited Instagram from their smartphones more frequently and for longer periods of time than they visited Twitter”. Mark Zuckerberg [...]

Twitter seems to be in no mood to slow down its offensive against third-party app developers. The latest move is dropping name of the source application from tweets on its web interface which means that any tweet from an application such as TweetDeck, Tweet-bot, or Seesmic will not the accompany the “via” field which carried the name of the application that was used to post that particular [...]