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Twitter Adds 8 New Services To Its Fabric Platform, Which Is Used By 225,000+ Developers
Fabric, Twitter’s toolkit for developers to build apps on its platform, launched last October. At Twitter’s Flight developer conference, its been announced that the toolkit is getting some nice goodies.Twitter Revamps Twitter For Mac Desktop App
Today at Twitter Flight, Twitter’s developer conference, the company announced that it had revamped and updated the Twitter for Mac client.
Though it won’t launch for a few months (date TBD), Twitter explained that newer features are being integrated into the Mac desktop app. Some of those features include in-line Vine and video playback, group Direct Messages, photos in Direct… Read More
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Watch Twitter’s Flight Conference Live Right Here
Twitter is holding a big press conference in San Francisco in just a few minutes at 10 AM PDT (1 PM PDT, 6 PM BST) — the company is running a bit late. While we expect a few developer announcements for the Twitter API and Fabric platform, there could also be a few new feature announcements. It will also be a big event for Jack Dorsey, now back as Twitter CEO. Watch the live stream below.… Read More
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Twitter (Officially) Launches Polls
Twitter’s been playing around with polls for the past month or so…right out in the open. Today’s announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise if you follow anyone who works for the company or runs in tech’s inner circles. Over the next few days, everyone will be able to pepper you with yes/no, two-option polls. Why only two options? Not sure, but it’s… Read More
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A Rant About How Twitter And Facebook Are Burying News Publishers
Publishers are at risk of becoming interchangeable. With Moments and Instant articles, Twitter and Facebook seem happy to take content from publishers without ever sending people back to their sites — you know, the place where publishers earn their money. If news outlets and other media properties don’t change something, they could become dumb content in the smart pipes of… Read More
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The (Predictable) Misunderstanding Of Twitter Moments
Twitter Moments launched this week, which caught none of Twitter’s most hardcore users by surprise. We knew it by the name of “Project Lightning,” I refer to it as “Project Glacier” because it slows things down for folks who aren’t use to drinking from the water hose. One of the most talked about aspects of Moments is the lack of… Read More
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9 Big Unanswered Questions About Twitter Moments
Riddle me this. Why won’t people just ignore Twitter’s new Moments tab? How will Moments make money? Will Twitter pay publishers that create them? Today Twitter launched Moments, its way to easily follow current events that could help it seduce new users and revive those who never got hooked. Read More
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Twitter Moments Have Their Own Set Of Guidelines And Principles
Along with the release of its new feature, Moments, Twitter shared a set of guidelines and principles that drive the curation team that powers it, as well as its external partners. Algorithms only pop up what’s trending; it’s up to human beings to assemble these Moments. While Twitter isn’t becoming a news organization itself, Moments does have them dabbling in a curation… Read More
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Twitter Debuts Moments
Jack Dorsey has returned to his creation and with him comes the hope of bringing more people onto the platform. Maybe they’ll never tweet. Maybe they’ll never follow anyone…but they’ll hopefully get caught up in a Moment or two. Or millions of them. Twitter Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Adam Bain Becomes COO, Dick Costolo Steps Down From Board
After four months of running under Jack Dorsey interim chief executive, today Twitter finally named him as its permanent leader. The man who helped co-found Twitter in 2006 is now its full-time CEO again. Dorsey is juggling the job with a couple of other roles. In addition to already being the social network’s chairman of the board, he is also the CEO of Square, an e-commerce startup that… Read More
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