Свежие новости и отзывы о twitter

In January, Twitter revealed that several of its key executives were leaving the company. We learned that former product head Kevin Weil landed at Instagram, and now Brian “Skip” Schipper, the former vice president of human resources at Twitter, is joining Yext, the fast-growing location data management company. Schipper will serve as Chief People Officer, overseeing global HR… Read More... →

For years, the media industry has speculated, somewhat worriedly, that big tech companies wanted to branch out, to take on the TV companies – to acquire rights to premium content. By and large, Silicon Valley firms’ coy response has typically been a demure: “We are a platform company, not a content company.” Now that the dust has settled around the deal it’s… Read More... →

We’re hearing from multiple sources that there’s a new fund coming out of Betaworks, and Twitter is chipping money into it. Twitter is investing at least $10 million in the new fund, according to one source. We don’t know the total size of the venture. In the past, Betaworks has focused on smaller seed investments and has stayed away from outsized funds. Another previous… Read More... →

We bring you three types of news from our communities this week, as well as plenty of engaging discussions! Let’s start with the good news – Twitter’s character limit will be expanding… sort of. URLs and photos will no longer count against the character limit, leaving users a little more room to express themselves. In bad news, we’ll bring you coverage from WebmasterWorld about the recent security snafu at LinkedIn.... [Read More...] The post Good News, Bad News, Long News: Weekly Forum Update appeared firs... →

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Posted by Tom-AnthonyApp search is growing and changing, and there's more opportunity than ever to both draw customers in at the top of the funnel and retain them at the bottom. In today's special British Whiteboard Friday, Tom Anthony and Will Critchlow of Distilled dig into everything app search and highlight a future where Google may have some competition as the search engine giant. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video TranscriptionTom: Howdy, and welc... →

Твитов становится все меньше, а пользователям уже не так интересно... →

It’s a common revenue generation model, but one that seems to have taken some time for other tech platforms reliant on the community to develop. The 10-year-old Twitter and 5-year-old Snapchat are still experimenting with monetization strategies and Pinterest, going on seven years, only adopted a similar sales model to Product Hunt’s with Buyable Pins last summer. Founder Ryan… Read More... →

Posted by Laura.Lippay[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] (header image photo by H.L.W. from the Blind Photographers Flickr Group.) Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 39 million people are blind. 285 million are visually impaired. 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — have some form of disability. Disabilities can come in many shapes and forms: physical, cognitive, visual, hearing. How does someone who is blind check their email? How does someone who can’t hear decipher any of the tens... →

В приложении Twitter для Android появилась отдельная кнопка для запуска прямой трансляции через сервис Periscope. Кнопка работает в тестовом режиме и пока доступна не всем пользователям. «Мы запускаем кнопку «Go Live» в Twitter для небольшого процента пользователей. Со временем, доступ к новой возможности получат все», - комментируют нововведение в компании. Новая кнопка расположена в меню для выбора медиафайлов. При нажатии на неё в ленте будет опубликован твит со ссылкой на трансляцию. Если на устройств... →

Twitter предложил новый способ монетизации для мобильных разработчиков. Теперь они смогут настроить показ рекламы MoPub во встроенных через Twitter Kit лентах твитов в приложениях для iOS и Android. Нововведение реализовано за счёт интеграции SDK MoPub и Twitter Kit и запускается в режиме бета-тестирования. «Мы не только открываем вам новый способ монетизации, но также берём на себя визуализацию рекламы. Вам не нужно будет волноваться о том, как она отображается в ленте. Также, объявления будут подстроены ... →

SocialRank is a startup that helps brands, agencies and celebrities understand their social media followers — not just in aggregate, like most social analytics services, but on an individual level. Today it introduced more features as part of a new SocialRank Premium plan. As a refresher: SocialRank helps customers find things like their “most valuable” followers on Twitter… Read More... →

Twitter has been releasing a variety tools for publishing its content beyond Twitter itself. Now it’s giving publishers an additional incentive — monetization through the company’s MoPub ad exchange. Previously, if a web publisher or app developer embedded a timeline  from Twitter, they could run ads on the same page, but not on the timeline itself. That’s changing… Read More... →

Twitter не будет учитывать ссылки и картинки при подсчете размера сообщения... →

Кнопка работает в тестовом режиме и доступна лишь на Android-устройствах... →

Теперь фото и ссылки не будут вычитаться из 140 символов... →

Появилась информация о том, что Twitter не будет учитывать изображения и ссылки в лимите 140 знаков.... →

For years, Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and photo URLs count against each tweet’s 140-character limit. Now that may finally change. According to a report in Bloomberg, Twitter will stop including photos and links in character counts, possibly within the next two weeks. Read More... →

Сервис микроблогов расширяют возможности пользователей в соцсети... →

Facebook is heaping focus on live video with an entirely dedicated tab for streams, which prioritizes in-the-moment broadcasts, so it’s no surprise to see that Twitter is fighting back in the streaming war with an integration between Periscope, its live-streaming platform, and the Twitter mobile apps. Read More... →