Random thoughts of a crowded mind
Below are a series of articles about the popular social media platform, Twitter.
British cosmetics firm Lush announced this week that it will closing several of its social media accounts. The company cited paying to engage with customers as one of the many issues it has with …
Lush boldly announced it will close social media accountsRead More
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 …
2 alternatives to replace Twitter’s tweet share count serviceRead More
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 …
Twitter ditches favourties for likes and replaces star icon with a heartRead More
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 …
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 …
Twitter removes the 140-character limit from Direct MessagesRead More
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
TweetDeck Air and Twitter’s API v1 are now officially retiredRead More
