Upcoming upgrade to 'Discover' function of Twitter

A few days after the upgrading of the Twitter application for iOS and Android, the company said it plans to soon move to new changes that will address both the web version and the mobile social networking applications.




More specifically, Twitter plans to upgrade its Discover operation for the first time we saw last December. In this tab, the user finds all the relevant information has of be proposed by Twitter, judging from the present location, his interests, and those who follow what happens every time in the world.


According to the official announcement of Twitter, the company managed to improve the algorithm proposals Discover how to incorporate more relevant and meaningful content. The new gain more "social" content, allowing the user to see who and what course tweetare comments.


The renewed operation is expected to make its appearance on Twitter users in the coming weeks.

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Twitter announces an initiative on the proper use of patents

Twitter with a very promising initiative announced Innovator's Patent Agreement, an agreement under which the companies promised to use the patents of their engineers for defensive purposes unless they receive the express permission of the authors of these patents. He says, indeed, that will enable engineers to maintain control of these patents the right to use as they wish.


The move comes shortly after the revelation that the popular feature 'pull to refresh' that exists in iOS applications is now patented in the name of Twitter Inc. With this agreement, the company promises that it will use its rights against other companies in the area.



The agreement will also apply if the patent ownership is changed because of a takeover, for example by giving the control to the original inventor. This consolidation strengthens the intellectual property, but denied the power of the lawyers who use the various patents on pipelines.


Twitter assures that employees can be assured that patents are filed and the company will only be used as a shield and never as a weapon. You can read the full text of the agreement here. It will be interesting to see what the companies will participate in this initiative.

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Twitter Unfollow: Official recognition of the bug

If you frequently use twitter you would have noticed at times that some people who were following suddenly stopped appearing in the timeline and you are unfollow, without your consent or even notice.

The bug was originally a source of misunderstanding among users of twitter, and now officially recognized by twitter, but in the circles of the social network was an "open secret" for many months.


The Jeremiah Owyang of TechCrunch wrote a representative of twitter and received the following reply:


This is a bug and our team working on the elimination of
He represented the social network in turn led to Jeremiah the relevant section of the Twitter Help Center where he was posted the relevant bug alert:


Bug alert:


A person you've recently followed shows in your following tab, but appears with a follow icon so it looks like you're not following them, as shown in the image below. Visit their profile if you'd like to confirm you're following them.


Engineers are working to resolve the issues listed above. Thanks for your patience!


We therefore expect that this annoying bug will be fixed soon ...

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Twitter makes promoted tweets available to small businesses

Last month, Twitter announced a partnership with American Express to offer an opportunity for small businesses to the network using the popular social network to promote their services.


From today the members of this program may begin the process of advertising on Twitter in the form of Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts. Initially, it involved a small part of these companies and then gradually added and others.


If you are a member of American Express or dealer you can still register to advertise on our Twitter.


Twitter has in recent weeks to promote and upgrade the system Promoted Tweets and Accounts to appear on mobile applications for Android iOS and even users who do not already follow the companies advertised.


A few days ago the company announced the acquisition of Posterous blogging platform while completed six years of operation.

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Twitter upgrades TweetDeck function and adds media preview [Video]

The upgrades Twitter application TweetDeck (which acquired last May for $ 40 million) since version 1.3 brings with it several new features and fixes, such as ability to preview pictures and videos through the media gallery, the capacity for two batteries to monitor more traffic, and adding a new column "Activity" that shows in real time what they follow, add-to-list and favourite accounts used by the user.

TweetDeck v1.3 New Features
You can download TweetDeck 1.3 for Mac and Windows here.

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Posterous acquired by Twitter

A short while ago announced the acquisition of the service from Posterous Twitter in a move that has caused much surprise in the technology press.


In a communication to the Posterous blog says the company is excited about this acquisition and eager to participate in a product with hundreds of millions into resonance.


As for the actual operation of the service Posterous Space will remain active without any change. If a change occurs that users will be notified promptly.


For users who would like to keep backup of the contents or transferred to another service will offer clear guidance in the coming weeks.


Has not been disclosed so far repaid but hopefully we will see great things in the future from the collaboration.


You can find the announcement here.

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The announcement of the iPad measured in ... tweets!

Twitter released the above diagram which shows substantially the number of tweets per minute during the presentation of the new iPad.


Specifically, the company counted all the tweets from 8 am to 2 pm (local time) which contained the word 'iPad' to them. As you can see you as we approach the start of the event (10am local time) the number of tweets and begin growing.


The climax comes at 10:41 a.m. when Tim Cook announced that the new iPad will be priced the same as the previous ones, ie $ 499.


Other places where we had significant increases are 10:33 a.m. to announcing the support of next generation networks, 11:21 a.m. to announcing the simultaneous availability of iPad 2 at $ 399 and 11:25 a.m. and ended when the event.

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Twitter secretly selling all tweets in advertising companies!

Most Twitter users believe that unlike Facebook is protected on privacy issues, and the tweets are visible only to those who choose.

This is to refute the recent revelation that Twitter actually keeps records of all tweets from January 2010 onwards and then sell to the British company Datasift to provide targeted ads without the knowledge of users.


What the Datasift is to analyze all daily tweets and then sells useful information on companies-customers (for example if someone mentions the name of a company or product). The information costs up to £ 10.000 per month and more than 1000 companies are currently waiting in the queue.


The Nick Pickles, leader of the team to safeguard privacy, Big Brother Watch, commented:


"Users may think that the tweets are personal property but apparently this is far from reality. It is clear that when a service is free, we are not customers but the products."

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Twitter: Soon advertisements (promoted tweets) applications for Android and iOS

Like any big company that respects itself, so Twitter announced that it will start serving ads through their official applications for Android devices and iOS.




The good thing is that the timeline will show the user as promoted tweets and not as pop-up ads, while at the beginning will be visible only to a small number of users and especially to those who follow specific brands.


Until now, promoted tweets only appear when making search through the application, but with the tremendous evolution of Twitter (soon will surpass the 500 million users) and easy penetration in portable devices (55% of total traffic), came time to get some money.

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The new Twitter version now available for all users!

Two months after the announcement of radical changes in Twitter, the social network has completed its transition to the new look and new features to all users worldwide.


The appearance is slightly reminiscent of Facebook Timeline, the user has the option of opening of tweets that include photos or videos directly to the feed, more options for monitoring retweets, mentions, favorites, etc., and greater ease in identifying subjects who might be interested in .



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