Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter was created in 2006 and rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users in 2012 and 340 million tweets per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet.”
After allowing users to opt in early, Twitter (s twtr) announced Wednesday that its new media-rich user profiles are available to all of its users. The new profile page, which includes a larger… Read more »
Witness the power of forward-thinking net neutrality law in action! This sort of thing could be hugely detrimental to the growth plans of Facebook in particular, but it’s ultimately very pro-consumer. Read more »
A new report from eMarketer, released today, indicates that Twitter will experience a boom in user growth, thanks to the increased presence of developing countries. Read more »
In the aftermath of multiple killings in California by a violent misogynist, the hashtag #YesAllWomen became a lightning rod for criticism and trolling — but also showed just how powerful the… Read more »
From car sharing to ride sharing, significant investments and the proliferation of smartphones are now betting on the transformation of how we get around. Read more »
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems — and solutions — are making their ways into… Read more »
Facebook’s director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media — including some new-media sites like Vox — and their focus on click-bait content, but many… Read more »
More and more countries and governments are making use of Twitter’s ability to block specific tweets or accounts from being seen by users in certain countries — but is this an… Read more »