Twitter users

Gradual decline in enthusiasm for Facebook, Twitter: Study

More and more people are gradually viewing social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter and enterprise social media LinkedIn negatively than in the past, an interesting study has revealed.

Jul 28, 2016, 16:28 PM IST

Twitter to stop counting links, photos in 140-character limit: Report

Twitter has been and continues to be a transformative service for the media landscape and the world.

May 17, 2016, 08:35 AM IST

Twitter to change homepage to customise tweet displays to individuals

Twitter Inc made a dramatic product change on Wednesday, saying it will recast the way it displays tweets on its homepage by customizing them to individual users, instead of uniformly displaying tweets in reverse chronological order.

Feb 11, 2016, 06:10 AM IST

Majority of Twitter users say they are early adopters: Study

Of those polled, 76 percent said they were more willing to recommend a brand after a friendly and personalised customer service interaction.

Jan 16, 2016, 19:51 PM IST

Twitter looks to make money from ads aimed at logged-out users

Twitter Inc said it was testing a feature to show advertisements to people who read tweets without logging in, as it tries to make good on its long-time ambition to monetize non-active users.

Dec 11, 2015, 12:17 PM IST

Shops or Tube? London bomb accused 'asked Twitter for advice'

A man who allegedly asked Twitter users for their thoughts on whether he should bomb a shopping centre or the London Underground went on trial in Britain on Tuesday.

Nov 18, 2015, 01:16 AM IST

Twitter introduces polling feature to all users

The feature will allow users to create their own two-choice poll right from the compose box where it will remain live for 24 hours.

Oct 22, 2015, 19:49 PM IST

Rashtrapati Bhavan twitter account crosses one million

The total number of followers of the official twitter account of Rashtrapati Bhavan (@RashtrapatiBhvn) crossed one million mark today.

Oct 21, 2015, 19:52 PM IST

Here's when you should tweet to get maximum retweets

Retweets are especially valuable to marketers because they help to spread a brand's message beyond core followers.

Oct 12, 2015, 15:12 PM IST

Tweets can reveal your income level!

Your tweets can reveal more than you intend to as researchers have found that it is possible to know a Twitter user's income level simply by looking at the words that he or she uses to post messages.

Sep 30, 2015, 13:28 PM IST

Whoa! Twitter claims it's bigger than Facebook

With the Facebook user base touching 1.49 billion - or roughly 20 percent of the world's population - can any social networking site claim to be bigger than this? Well, Twitter does.

Sep 19, 2015, 17:35 PM IST

Twitter lays bare people's conservative, liberal traits

If you are a liberal, you are likely to swear more and use more individual words like 'me'. If you happen to be conservative, you are more likely to talk about religion and opt more for the group-oriented 'us', a new study has revealed.

Sep 17, 2015, 14:50 PM IST

Twitter allows pinning tweets at the top of profile on iOS and Android devices

Twitter has released a new feature that allows the users to pin tweets to their profile on iOS and Android.

Aug 28, 2015, 18:14 PM IST

Twitter removes backgrounds from user profiles

Twitter has removed the customized background the users added in the design area of their settings on the home or notification screen pages.

Jul 22, 2015, 09:41 AM IST

Twitter users watch more movies that non-users: Survey

If you are on Twitter and use it frequently, chances are that you are also an avid movie lover and hit theatres within 10 days of a new film release, says a survey.

Apr 28, 2015, 18:48 PM IST

Twitter indexes every public tweet ever sent

Twitter on Tuesday began letting users search through every tweet publicly fired off at the globally-popular one-to-many messaging service since it launched in 2006.

Nov 19, 2014, 09:28 AM IST

Twitter spices timelines with unasked-for tweets

Twitter said on Friday it would start reconfiguring its users` timelines with "relevant" messages from people they haven`t bothered to follow at the service.

Oct 18, 2014, 08:37 AM IST