Twitter-Tok?

Twitter just launched new tests for its reformatted explore tab, which displays Tweets in full-screen, vertical scrolling format, pretty much like how TikTok presents its content feeds. Twitter’s supposedly ‘new’ format has an eerie semblance to that of TikTok’s, down to the ‘For You’ and ‘Trending’ tabs. On Display The new display pretty much says ‘TikTok on […]

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The Best of Twitter 2021

Now here’s a nice addition to the annual achievements of those included on this list, Twitter has just announced the winners of its #BestOfTweetsAwards for 2021. Calculations were based on a set of metrics that includes a combination of both statistics-based and peer-voted awards. Spanning across a range of categories, these awards recognize the most outstanding […]

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Twitter Adds New Links to Official HIV/AIDS Info

Twitter, in line with the recent celebration of ‘World AIDS Day’, has announced that it’ll undergo an expansion of its search help prompts so that they now include HIV-related information. The intended update will see that users who look up HIV and AIDS-related keywords are shown new alerts and would then be redirected to official health resources and […]

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Twitter Regulatory Updates on Unauthorized Use

Twitter is looking to level-up its regulatory prowess by improving the enforcement of policies that revolve around the misuse of people’s private content. Twitter looks to expand its ‘Private Information Policy’ to now also cover the use of “private media”, which relate to images, or any user-originated content, that are shared via Tweet without the originator’s consent. […]

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Twitter Prepping for Broader Launch of Reply Downvotes

Despite the heavy news of Jack Dorsey’s resignation, Twitter does have something new, in the form of an improved reply downvotes option, which could be made available to more users soon. Reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong first spotted this introductory screen in the back-end code of the app. Based on Jane’s Tweet, you can see that the new introductory screen […]

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Jack Dorsey Resigns from Twitter

For the past 2 years, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had been under extreme pressure. As of today, some of that pressure has been relieved, but along with it, unfortunately, is his title as CEO. Jack must have Tweeted this during the weekend. Such a simple yet cryptic Tweet definitely held with it a more profound meaning. […]

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Twitter’s New Seasonal Themed App Icons

We have more good news for Twitter Blue subscribers. Soon, those who have Twitter Blue subscriptions will have access to some new festive, holiday features, including a new set of app icons discovered in Twitter’s own back-end code. The new set of icons are unique in that they align with various seasonal trends. Ever reliable app researcher Alessandro […]

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Twitter Launches Initial Tests of Its Live-Shopping Broadcasts

YouTube’s been doing it, and so has Instagram. Facebook’s in on it too, and even TikTok. Why, even Pinterest isn’t letting itself fall behind. Truly, Live-Shopping has taken the online world by storm, with Twitter being the latest social media app to give Live-Commerce a try. Twitter hopes to maximize its eCommerce activity via the immediacy and engagement of retailer broadcasts. It’ll be interesting […]

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Twitter’s Incoming NFT Profile Images

Regardless of what people may think about NFTs, it’s clear that they are a new trend  and that many are now ‘investing’ in these digital artworks via crypto. NFTs are currently a ‘Statement’ commodity, meaning that simply having or owning one lets you show off your connection to web pop culture, while also providing you […]

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Twitter Launches Updated Analytics Card

Twitter had just recently launched its improved labels, and now it’s also rolling out a brand new and updated Tweet analytics display! Made to be available on each Tweet, the new display looks to provide more specific performance insight, along with some extra engagement elements. Talk about being efficient; Twitter seems keen to end this year in […]

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