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15 Million Downloads Later: TweetDeck Turns 2
TweetDeck, the popular Twitter client, just celebrated its 2nd birthday. According to the company’s founder Iain Dodsworth, the TweetDeck desktop client has been downloaded 15 million times and the...
View ArticleEmbedding an Official Tweet Button (just for the sake of it)
Tweet Looks like Twitter is launching its own Tweet buttons later this week. While you can already embed the code (see below), not everybody can actually use the button to retweet the post yet. Just...
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Twitter Launches Official Twitter Share Bookmarklet
There are already numerous Twitter bookmarklets and browser extensions on the market that make it easy for Internet users to share any site with their Twitter friends. Today, Twitter itself is joining...
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Google Puts Renewed Focus on Real-Time Search with New Social Search Test
Somehow I completely missed the fact that those blue “shared by” links on Google’s search results page that I started seeing a few days were new. Given the pace of the search giant’s development cycle,...
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Twitter’s New Desktop App for the Mac: A Disappointment
This morning, with the launch of the Mac App Store, Twitter also launched its new desktop app for the Mac. While the app is pretty, it’s missing too many essential features that serious Twitter users...
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Twitter's Updated iPhone App Annoys Users With Unnecessary Focus on Trending...
Twitter today launched an update to its iOS apps that brings lots of welcome new features (automatic shortening of links, autocomplete for usernames and easier photo uploads) but also puts far too much...
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Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It – Just Making it a...
When Twitter launched the latest version of its iPhone app a few days ago, most users were more than happy to get auto-completion for names and hashtags, among many other improvements. The fact that...
View ArticleTweetDeck Launches Web-Based Version of its Twitter Client for (Almost) All...
TweetDeck, the popular Adobe AIR-based Twitter client, started offering a web-based version of its service in Google’s Chrome Web Store late last year. There, it quickly became one of the most popular...
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Why Acquiring TweetDeck Makes Sense for Twitter
The Wall Street Journal today reported on a rumor that Twitter is “in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck,” the popular Twitter client for the desktop and browser. Neither Twitter nor TweetDeck founder...
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Twitter Launches Redesigned Mobile Site for Smartphones
While Twitter has been continually updating its desktop apps and desktop browser experience, its mobile site has been sorely lacking – both with regards to design and functionality. Today, however,...
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Twitter Launches New Permissions Screen, Vows to Keep Your Direct Messages Safe
Twitter just announced that it is launching a redesigned permissions screen today that will make it easier for users to understand which data they are sending to third-party services. In addition,...
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More Buttons Coming to a Site Near You: Twitter Follow and Google +1
It’s a big day for buttons today. Twitter just introduced its new Follow button and thanks to an unfortunate leak, we also know that Google is planning to launch its +1 button for third-party sites...
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Twitter.com Finally Gets Automatic Link Shortening
Link shorteners like bit.ly are some of the most often used tools in the Twitter ecosystem. While Twitter itself has been using it’s own t.co URL shortener for a while, it was never integrated into the...
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Why Twitter Should be Very Worried About Google+
When Google unexpectedly launched its new social network Google+ earlier this week, many pundits were skeptical about the company’s latest attempt to enter the social arena. Given Google’s dismal track...
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Report: Google’s +1 Buttons Gain Wider Distribution, Facebook Still Dominant
In some corners of the Internet, the battle between Google’s +1 buttons and Facebook’s and Twitter’s equivalent sharing tools has already been decided. According to Enterprise SEO company Brightedge,...
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