By Brandon Russell |
Lucky Sort, a data visualization startup that makes bigger gobs of information more manageable, has been acquired by Twitter. According to an announcement on Lucky Sort’s website, members of the team will join up with Twitter in San Francisco in the revenue engineering department. Current…
By Adriana Lee |
Jennie Lamere was the only female to present a completed project at a national coding competition in Boston. At just 17-years-old, she’s a lone tech-head at her all-girls school and wound up being the only participant in the TVnext Hack event to work alone. But…
By Brandon Russell |
TweetDeck, one of the best solutions for keeping track of multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts, is getting the ax today on iOS, Android and AIR. Twitter set an official execution date late last month after making a surprise announcement to cut off the mobile and…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter on Wednesday updated its iOS and Android applications with an all new ability to see what’s happening in your area. The option to have control over location-based trends follows a rumor that pretty much detailed exactly what Twitter introduced today. In addition to seeing…
By Brandon Russell |
Pretty soon you’ll be able to tweet through Google Glass; the evidence is already mounting, making it pretty difficult to refute its existence. At this point it’s unclear how the application would work in conjunction with Glass, but presumably a user would simply instruct the…
By Brandon Russell |
Vine is making it easier to record six-second selfies with a new upgrade on Tuesday. And teenagers everywhere yelped with excitement. It won’t be long before everyone is awkwardly holding their phone, arm extended in front of them, at the pep rally or in a…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems like the Syrian Electronic Army is having a busy year. After claiming credit for hacking the Twitter account of the Associated Press and sending out a fake news tweet that The White House had been bombed — it wasn’t — they’re at it again, this time attacking…
By Adriana Lee |
Want to know what’s going on at your company? The best way may be to hit up Twitter, because when pink slips go down, former employees always seem to turn up there. In this case, it was AOL that was doing the axing. And this…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter wants to show you what people are talking about in your area. Is that new restaurant down the road any good? Someone probably tweeted about it. How about that bar that just opened up? Yep, it’s probably on Twitter. Or maybe there’s a cool…
By Todd Haselton |
Vine launched for iOS on January 24 as a Twitter product that allows users to take quick 6.5 second snapshots of the life around them and upload them to Twitter. Users can follow one another on the service, too, and like or comment on the…
By Adriana Lee |
Thanks to an erroneous tweet from the Associated Press Twitter account, @AP, people far and wide were panicked over an alleged bombing at The White House and the supposed injury of President Barack Obama. It only took a moment to set things straight and reveal…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter is close to rolling out two-step verification in response to recent hackings, according to Wired. The social network has reportedly begun internal testing before the feature becomes available in increments to users; the staggered release is to ensure smooth sailing. The extra security measure…
By Brandon Russell |
Another high-profile Twitter account was seized by hackers on Tuesday when a fake tweet claiming there had been explosions in the White House was sent out on the Associated Press account. The cyber attack, which wrested control of AP’s Twitter account, was immediately refuted by…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s Earth Day, which means we’re supposed to take this time to consider how we treat this spinning orb we call home. And while some mark the occasion by doing exactly that, others just can’t help but throw down a little planetary supremacism. its earth…
By Adriana Lee |
Last week, the rumors over Twitter #Music panned out, as the company finally had its coming out party for the Web and iOS. Twitter called it a tangible grid of trending artists, so naturally, we wanted to see what kind of trends it would yield.…
By Brandon Russell |
The day of reckoning for TweetDeck’s mobile and AIR apps has been set for May 7. First announced back in March, the move is, according to Twitter, to focus on developing for modern browsers, which is apparently where most users are currently flocking to. “We…
By Adriana Lee |
Twitter’s busting out all over. The company just announced its music discovery app this week, a new advertising approach based on tweet content, and now this — a new partnership with BBC America.…
By Adriana Lee |
Welcome to the brave new world of Twitter advertising, in which companies will be able to target you based on the content of your tweets. Seems that zeroing in on users based on who they follow just isn’t good enough, so the micro-blogging service is…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new #music project is trying to make discovery more social. The platform isn’t just for immortal celebrities; it’s a tangible grid of trending artists according to Twitter. If you’re up to speed with all the latest top hits, #music is essentially a Top 40…
By Todd Haselton |
Twitter officially revealed its own music service on Thursday, appropriately dubbed Twitter #music. The application is available for iOS and basically scans through Twitter to find new and popular music. “[Twitter #music] uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back with an all new show where he rants and raves on various topics in and out of the tech world. On this week’s episode, Jon rants about our instinct to use our smartphones to post on social media websites before helping…
By Brandon Russell |
After Twitter tackles music the company wants to move over to video, according to Bloomberg. The social network is reportedly in talks with with both Viacom and NBCUniversal to introduce “high quality video content” to its platform. Right now, Twitter is “close” to reaching agreements—the…
By Adriana Lee |
Used to be, you could tell someone was over-the-hill if they were hitting you up via email instead of text or Facebook. Now, according to a recent Piper Jaffray survey, the demarcation line has shifted, as Zuck&Co’s popularity seems to be sliding among the teen…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new music app may not be available for us mere mortals, but that’s not stopping folks from snooping into its details. Right now, all that’s available to everyone that’s not Ryan Seacrest is a landing page, but not much else. Thanks to designer Youssef…
