Twitter could be planning on adding a search tab for you to search for particular conversation in your DMs. The feature which was spotted by reverse engineering expert and developer Jane Manchun Wong, the functionality certainly isn’t perfect just yet. But from what we can guage, you will be able to search using profile names […]
Twitter in more recent months has been focused on making conversations on its platform easier to follow, participate in, and in some cases, block. The social site is testing notifications on Android and iOS for replies to a given tweet, ensuring that you won’t miss a moment. You can limit it to replies from the […]
Twitter came clean about a data mishap. According to the company, it may have shared data it didn’t have permission to with advertisers. The microblogging network said in a company blog post Tuesday that it may’ve shared certain data even though you didn’t give it permission to do so. We recently discovered and fixed issues […]
Twitter is testing a “Snooze” button that allows you to pause push notifications from the mobile app for an allotted time. Jane Manchun Wong, a tech blogger from Hong Kong, has revealed that Twitter is testing a new ‘Snooze’ button that lets you pause notifications. Jane Manchun Wong tweeted Twitter is testing Snooze feature, allowing […]
Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud. A number of alternative social networks have also joined the project, with Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project enabling the import and export of contacts, and Mastodon allowing for the import and export of posts. An […]
Twitter said that it would label tweets from political figures that violate its rules, but it’s not clear if the social network is applying that policy yet. CNET noted that Twitter hasn’t labeled a series of President Trump tweets that are widely considered to be racist. The politician suggested that “Progressive Democrat Congresswomen” critical of […]
Twitter has been having a problem with user growth, mostly due to its slow progress on reducing abuse on its platform, but also because it has a history of making bad design decisions that make it harder to navigate and communicate, such as fiddling with its reverse-chronological feed. Quality of life improvements such as rich […]
Twitter is experiencing a broad outages of its services, the social media site said Thursday, saying on its official status page that the problem is due to an internal configuration change that is now being fixed. “Some people may be able to access Twitter again and we’re working to make sure Twitter is available to […]
Facebook isn’t the only social media suffering from serious downtime. As of mid-day on July 3rd, Twitter is experiencing “some issues” with direct message delivery and notifications. The website Down Detector, which regularly tracks outages on various platforms and websites, listed 122 reports of outages on Twitter. Users also expressed their frustration with their Twitter […]
Twitter is changing how it handles tweets from politicians and government leaders including President Donald Trump that violate its rules but are still in the public’s interest. The social network on Thursday said it’ll start placing a notice over tweets that break its rules, and users will have to clip or tap on the warning […]
Twitter says that it’s bringing the program back after Apple unveiled Project Catalyst for macOS 10.15 Catalina. It explained why it decided to drop the app last year. Twitter made the announcement during Apple’s WWDC conference last week, saying that the app would launch with Catalina this fall, and that this new version will have […]
Twitter is finally allowing a number of locked users to regain control of their accounts once again. Around a year after Europe’s new privacy laws (GDPR) rolled out, Twitter began booting users out of their accounts if it suspected the account’s owner was underage that is, younger than 13. But the process also locked out […]
Twitter, showing that it does occasionally listen to user requests, has delivered on CEO Jack Dorsey’s promise of a true, battery-saving dark mode. The company has just tweeted the announcement that its dark mode with a proper black background, which it’s dubbing “lights out,” is rolling out today, but only for its iOS app. No […]
A viral prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthdays to 2007 is getting users locked out of the platform for being under 13. The prank tweets tell users that changing the Twitter birthdays on their profiles will do everything from unlocking new color schemes, getting them admin privileges, or even a verified […]