Neowin News Feed for: Tweet

US Presidential debate most tweeted political event ever

Christopher White — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:54:21 +0100

As the micro-blogging site continues to grow, more and more people are sharing their thoughts with the world. Last night's presidential debate generated 10.3 million tweets, a new political record. Read more...

Tweet anywhere in the world with "Please, don't stalk me!"

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:38:05 +0100

A new app that spoofs an alternative location for your tweets has been launched, allowing anyone to tweet from anywhere in the world, adding an extra layer of privacy to fool a stalker, or employer? Read more...

Starbucks tweet asks Irish customers why they're proud to be British

Andy Weir — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:21:00 +0100

Starbucks is the latest big brand to end up red-faced thanks to social media, after a tweet to its customers in Ireland asked why they're proud to be British - a contentious enquiry, to say the least. Read more...

High school student expelled for swearing on Twitter

Andy Weir — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:00:22 +0100

A high school senior was expelled for using a school computer to post tweets containing swear words, despite those tweets being made to the student's personal account, in the middle of the night. Read more...

500,000 Android device activations per day

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:54:36 +0100

According to a recent tweet by Andy Rubin, Senior VP of Mobile at Google and Android founder, there are currently over 500,000 Android devices activated every day. Not only that, but this figure is growing... Read more...

Twitter to announce Twitpic-style photo sharing service

Andy Weir — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:39:50 +0100

Following many weeks of speculation, all indications are that Twitter is finally set to announce the launch of its own photo sharing service, taking on competing services that have seen a surge in usage since... Read more...

Twitter chief technology officer, Greg Pass, steps down

Andy Weir — Sat, 21 May 2011 05:32:01 +0100

Following rumours that were picked up on by TechCrunch earlier today, it’s now been confirmed that Greg Pass, Twitter’s first Chief Technology Officer, is stepping down. Pass has worked in a range of environments, including AOL... Read more...

Twitter redesign fully rolled out

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:23:05 +0100

Last month, Neowin reported that Twitter had begun to roll out a redesign. The redesign was to be rolled out over a period of a few weeks. Four weeks later, Twitter announced on their blog... Read more...

71% of all tweets are ignored

Brandon Boyce — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:50:58 +0100

Over a two month period of time Twitter users were able to tweet 1.2 billion times which gave Sysomos, a provider of social media monitoring and analytics technology, more than enough data to analyze just... Read more...

Neowin looks at the #NewTwitter

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:19:30 +0100

Twitter announced last week that a redesign is on the way for Twitter.com. The popular social networking website, crammed into 140 characters, is currently rolling out the new design to some of its 145+ million... Read more...

Twitter announces new website design and features

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:20:13 +0100

Today at Twitter's official headquarters, the company best known for revolutionizing social networking has hatched something new. Expected to roll out over the next few weeks, according to TechCrunch, will be a completely redesigned and... Read more...

CNN Senior Editor fired over tweet; are we taking Twitter too seriously?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:31:26 +0100

All it took was a few hastily typed words. In what may not seem like a blip on the technology news radar screen, a high-ranking CNN news editor was fired on Wednesday over a simple tweet.... Read more...

Twitter testing 'You both follow' feature

Matt Blowes — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:55:42 +0100

Twitter engineer Nick Kallen posted a tweet several hours ago saying the new 'You both follow' feature was starting to be tested. TechCrunch picked up on new feature being enabled noting only 10% of users... Read more...

This is what a single tweet looks like

giga — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:42:01 +0100

Twitter users are limited to posting 140 characters for each tweet. The average Twitter user wouldn’t think much else goes into posting a short sentence to the social networking site, but in reality, much more... Read more...

US Library of Congress set to archive every public tweet ever

Matt Blowes — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:18:35 +0100

Every public tweet ever posted, since March 2006 when Twitter began, will be archived by the US Congress. Whether it be the first tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey or Conan O'Brien's tweet announcing his surprise... Read more...

Twitter for business - Ways to tap the power of the tweet

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:44:33 +0000

Twitter is one of the best micro-blogging service that allows users to send and receive other user's updates. Personally I feel Twitter is a valuable and the easiest service to update your friends on your... Read more...