Random thoughts of a crowded mind
Are you lost without your tweet share count? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. Third-party tweet buttons have been looking a little strange ever since Twitter removed the share count on their tweet buttons back in November 2015. Many bloggers used the tweet count as a simple way to measure the popularity of a post …
Thanks to Twitter Inc. investor Chris Sacca the social media platform will be replacing the star icon for “favourite” with a heart just like Instagram. To take the similarity of other social media platforms even further, the new feature will be called “likes” according to a blog post from Twitter. The company patronisingly tells us that: “You …
Twitter is rolling out a new Polls feature which will be available to all accounts soon. I’ve tested it and I think it is a massive improvement on previous opinion gathering efforts. In the past people have used the retweet for yes, favourite for no style of polling and then counting up the votes. The …
Twitter recently announced the removal of the 140-character limitation for Direct Messages (DMs). Now you can say more in one message rather than having to spread your private chat over several DMS. On their blog Twitter says “this is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun.” This …
Early in April Twitter launched a retweet with comment feature and in adding this functionality it took away the edit tweet option. If you are a mobile user then the new quote feature is a welcome improvement. Previously on Twitter for mobile if you wanted to quote someone’s tweet the app placed quotes around …
Yay! Twitter has finally added support for emojis on the desktop version of the site. Now office based peeps and others who prefer the larger view Twitter experience can see and use smileys and the silly fist bump icons and all the other good stuff. Remember those tweets filled with empty boxes that confused the …
Twitter has made major changes to user profile pages and I have to say the update makes the social media platform look a lot like Google+ and Facebook pages but I like it. The new layout design is wider and utilises the space a bit better. The bio has moved to the left hand side …
Have you ever wondered how newspapers and big entertainment websites have summaries of their stories in their tweets and you don’t. Well I’ve wondered on occasion and dismissed it assuming it was because they were verified Twitter accounts or big publications but I was wrong. These summaries or expanded tweets are called Twitter Cards and …
Social media can play a key role in marketing your blog but there is no point in signing up to social media tools if you don’t have the time to maintain them all. There is nothing worse than half-heartedly engaging with your audience it will eventually show. The best thing to do is choose, one …
We were warned that Twitter was retiring TweetDeck Air and associated API v1 apps and we were given a brief reprieve but the day has finally arrived. Twitter’s Taylor Singletary confirmed the micro-blogging service has pulled the plug on its API v1 and moving on to API v1.1. “Today, we are retiring API v1 and …
Twitter has delayed the retirement date for it’s API 1.0. from 7 May to 11 June to allow for additional testing. Twitter will however cease support for TweetDeck AIR, Android and iOS today. As a power user of Tweetdeck AIR, the news was not welcome. I can still post from AIR but I have been …
