Tag: twitter

  • Knee-jerk asshole responses online

    How often do we see this approach to stuff that comes up in our online streams? Far too often, I think: The web runs on newness, but the massive quantity and disagreeable structure we place on that newness (cough streams) means it’s very easy to have your stance online become, as my friend Jason likes…

  • Twitter's growth challenge

    Om Malik writing in To live and die in public: That’s Twitter That is Twitter’s fork in the road. Does is want to be like Google, a company with faint regard for Wall Street’s expectations, delivering growth and sticking to its original (if somewhat more evil) game plan? Or does Twitter want to follow the…

  • Twitter’s noble mission

    Twitter has always been really good about protecting free expression. This has been Twitter’s noble mission and no other company fights for it quite like Twitter does.

  • I like the Twitter photo filters

    So many apps have photo filters these days and when Twitter announced theirs I was skeptical. When I do have an opportunity to post photos to Twitter, I’m often surprised that I prefer them to most other apps. Original Modified

  • Pretty impressive two-factor authentication in the @Twitter iPhone and Android apps

    Twitter rolled out updates to its iOS and Android apps at the beginning of August which included a new two-factor authentication method for verifying logins (and possibly other stuff). It is worth reading the blog post describing the solution. It begins with this explanation why Twitter opted not to go with the more common two-factor…

  • Why we fear Facebook and why we shouldn't?

    Rian van der Merwe published a post which touches on a recurring theme which I have been thinking about for a while: we should fear Facebook/Google/Twitter because of all the data they hold about us. I keep wondering why? There are good reasons to be afraid of what these services may know about us in…

  • How to add Twitter accounts in the iPad Twitter app

    ​Twitter’s (relatively) new iPad app is a bit of a regression from the previous version (or coded awesomeness, depending on who you talk to). One feature is particularly obtuse and that is switching between and adding Twitter profiles to the app. HATE new Twitter for iPad update! No multiple accounts. Social media manager crisis. Any…

  • Twitterbook Plus

    Twitter updated its iOS apps and published a post about the new iPad app yesterday. One of the updates is your ability to add a banner image. Wow. So Twitter is becoming even more like Facebook now. In fact, its also a little like Google+ … I think it would just be easier to merge…