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Twitter Is Reportedly Considering A Deal To Acquire SoundCloud
According to re/code, Twitter may be making another move into the music industry as they are reportedly considering a deal to buy SoundCloud. SoundCloud is...
Twitter Introduces The Mute Button, Allows You To Silence Specific Users
Today, Twitter announced that they will be introducing a new feature for its iPhone and Android apps, as well as Twitter.com, that will allow users to...
Twitter Introduces Language Targeting For Advertisers
Twitter announced this week that advertisers now have the option to target Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts in the preferred language of the audience they...
Twitter and Amazon Link Up, Add Items To Your Shopping Cart With A Single Tweet
Amazon recently launched a new feature called #AmazonCart where Twitter users can add items to their Amazon shopping cart simply by tweeting that hashtag along with...
Twitter Releases Study Showing Exposure To Brand Tweets Drives Action Online And Offline
Twitter released a study this week, in partnership with The Advertising Research Foundation, FOX and DB5, called “Discovering the Value of Earned Audiences — How...
Twitter Gains 14 Million Monthly Active Users In Q1 2014
Twitter released their earnings report for the the first quarter of 2014, which shows positive growth in just about every area. In fact, the numbers...
Twitter Tests A New Signup Process Aimed At Getting New Users To Stick Around Longer
Wired reports that Twitter is testing a new, smarter signup process that has been designed with the intention to get new users to stick around...
Twitter Acquires Gnip, The World’s Largest Provider of Twitter Data
Twitter’s VP of Global Business Development, Jana Messerschmidt, announced today the company has agreed to acquire Gnip, a leading provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data...
Twitter Adds Real-Time, Interactive Notifications To Desktop Version
Those who prefer to use Twitter via the web, rather than using a dedicated desktop app, can expect to see some new functionality rolling out...
Twitter Announces Upcoming Launch Of Redesigned Profile Pages
Twitter announced this morning they will soon be rolling out revamped profile pages designed to be “easier” and “more fun” to express yourself. The new profile design...
Twitter Adds Photo Tagging And Collages To iOS And Android Apps
Twitter announced they will be adding two new features to their iOS and Android apps to make photos “more social.” Taking a page from Facebook,...
Twitter Experimenting With New Feature To Show How Many People Viewed Your Tweets
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with a new feature (see this link for a screenshot) that would show users how many people viewed their individual tweets. The view...
Twitter Is Reportedly Phasing Out @-Replies From Its Service
Twitter is reportedly in the alpha stages of experimenting with a new version of its service that would see @-replies become phased out. BuzzFeed reports that Vivian Schiller,...
How Growth Hacking Drives Twitter Followers via Twitterjacking
Brands are growth hacking their Twitter followers via popular and highly engaging tweets that come from other brands or people i.e. “Twitterjacking”. A great example of...
5 Free and Awesome Tools To Use #Hashtags Wisely
The hashtag: what an incredible invention. Many people credit Twitter with its origination, but that isn’t true. It was used on programs like IRC long...
Twitter To Start Including Promoted Accounts In Search Results
Twitter announced the launch of a new feature today giving Promoted Accounts a more prominent home by including them in search results. Promoted Accounts are an...
Twitter Search Gets Better, More Useful, With New Search Filters
Twitter announced on, of all places, Twitter yesterday that they are bringing new filters to the desktop version of their social network: We’re bringing new...
12 Celebrity Twitter Account Mistakes
As you already know, Twitter is a great tool when you want to socialize with like-minded individuals, promote yourself or your brand, and to keep...
25 Awesome Brands on Twitter That You Should Be Following
If you have a Twitter account (which most of us do), you probably have noticed brands constantly outdoing one another. This is because it only...
How You Can Tell How Old Someone Is By Their Tweets
If you follow social media trends, there’s always been one obvious, glaring fact. Twitter is for the young. Without having much evidence to back this...
Twitter Announces Ad Retargeting Feature Called ‘Tailored Audiences’
In an announcement made on their blog yesterday, Twitter is releasing a new product for their advertisers called “tailored audiences.” After testing tailored audiences for...
Topsy, A Leading Twitter Search And Analytics Company, Purchased By Apple For $200 Million
Topsy, one of the last remaining Twitter search and analytics companies, has been purchased by Apple for $200 million as reported today by the Wall...
Are Twitter Ads Useless?
Twitter rocked markets this week with a spectacular initial showing. But how do Twitter ads measure up against Facebook ads? Is it worth spending your...
Using Twitter to Find Link Prospects
With a more emphasis on social networks than ever before, getting links from the right kind of people and websites has never been more important....
New Move by Twitter: Universal Search Results
Finally! Twitter has finally announced it is launching Universal Search Results. The roll out will happen in waves, which means some users have to wait....
Social Search Engine Topsy Has Indexed All Tweets in Existence
It’s hard to believe that Twitter has only been around since 2006, especially because it is now such a huge part of many of our...
Protecting Your Social Media Accounts From Phishing
The Onion was recently hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army and it made me re-evaluate the security of my personal social media accounts and, more...
How to Increase Engagement with Your Audience
At its core engagement boils down to one key idea. You have to remember that there is a human being on the other end...
Twitter’s Vine App Will Make Social SEO Campaigns More Awesome
On January 24th 2012, the world’s fastest growing social media platform, Twitter, released a new mobile application that allows for the transference of short, precise...
At 25,000 Tweets: My Thoughts About Twitter, Its Users, Business Impact, Advertising Obstacles, and Future
I remember the day I decided to sign up for Twitter. Like many other people at the time, I wondered why anyone would want to...