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Fiery Battle In App Land For Mozilla- Twitter Accompanies Firefox In The War

Firefox and Twitter-sounds like a deadly combination, isn’t it? Well, we have sources that reveal Twitter would be available for the fiery operating system as soon as devices backed by this OS ships. The tweet app on this OS would not be starkly different from conventional mobile applications. The tabs such as Me, Connect and Home would still be in place. However, Web Activities would just be a cherry on the cake for this app. Snap-sharing would become breeze with this for sure. Mozilla has already partners in Facebook Cut the Rope, EA Games and Twitter is yet another feather in its cap. We hope that this collaboration proves fruitful for Mozilla since it has a long race ahead in the market where Android and iOS rule.

250K Accounts Compromised, Says Twitter; Clarifies that Hack was Unrelated to Yesterday’s Outage

In what appears as more bad news for the microblogging social network, Twitter has been sending out mails to 250,000 of its users claiming that it has been experiencing “unusual access patterns” which could indicate possible hacking of their accounts. However, the site has claimed that this incident is independent of the outage it experienced yesterday. Twitter has requested its users to change their passwords following this incident and ensure that they use a strong enough password to protect their accounts. A common thread observed in the users whose accounts were possibly hacked indicate that this could have affected the early adopters of Twitter, who have been using the site since 2007. If this is found true and you are among those who joined the brigade much later, you’re probably safe. We’re not quite sure if they’re related, but coincidentally, Amazon too experienced an outage yesterday. Twitter of course has [+more]

Twitter Vs Facebook: Would Pornographic Videos Cost The Just Announced Twitter App?

By Ava | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Mon 28 Jan, 2013 02:37 PM UTC

No sooner did Twitter announce its latest video-sharing app Vine that some users have started sharing pornographic content on it. While Vine’s terms of service make no specific mention about disallowing sharing of sexually explicit material, the catch is that Apple’s App Store’s guidelines don’t welcome such stuff. Users have already begun uploading videos featuring male genitalia and clips from porn videos on to the site, with the hashtags porn, sex and other similar words. Even though Twitter may believe in the freedom of expression, given how it has kept away from censoring tweets, Vine does have a provision for users to flag content they find offensive. According to a representative from the company, “Uploaded videos that are reported and determined to violate our guidelines will be removed from the site, and the user that posted the video may be terminated”. The main question everyone’s asking is what impact it [+more]

Twitter’s Vine Vs Facebook’s Instagram: The Rivals Take The Brawl To Another Level

By Tech Thirsty Team | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Fri 25 Jan, 2013 03:31 PM UTC

In an entirely surprising turn of events, Thursday saw microblogging social network Twitter launching its own video app, Vine. Users can capture short videos of up to 6 seconds’ duration and run it on loop using this app. As of now, this app is available only for iOS users – so iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can download and use this app currently. In keeping with Twitter’s theme of brevity, this app is also aimed at inspiring creativity among its users. According to a blog post by Twitter, Vine’s posts are about abbreviation, shortening something longer. However, moments after Twitter announced this new app, privacy concerns began to get raised. Some users reported that they were able to view other users’ private contact information when they logged into the app, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers. This issue led Twitter to disable Facebook sharing shortly after the app’s launch. [+more]

Instagram Twitter Rivarly Grows; Disables Twitter Integration

By Sonam Malik | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Thu 6 Dec, 2012 12:36 PM UTC

It seems all is not well between Twitter and Instagram. After selling itself to Facebook it has disabled integration with Twitter. The photo sharing app instagram has disabled the features that lets Twitter to properly display its photos. If you still want to share your Instagram photos on Twitter, you can do that but they won’t show on Twitter properly. “This is due to Instagram disabling its Twitter cards integration, and as a result, photos are being displayed using a pre-cards experience,” the micro blogging site added. According to thesources, the move shows the growing rivalry between Twitter and Instagram. By disabling Twitter cards, Instagram will force Twitter users to click through to its site to see the entire image, the souce added.

Twitter Launches Mail a Tweet Facility

By S K | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Fri 16 Nov, 2012 05:21 PM UTC

Twitter fans have another reason to rejoice as the social media giant adds another convenient way to share tweets. Now, with this one-to-many text messaging service, you can pick up tweets directly from the messaging stream and mail them to your buddies–outside of Twitter. Twitter has launched the new feature to make use of the Twitter mobile app easy for users. “You can retweet any (Twitter messages) to your Twitter followers, but sometimes you want to share with another group, like your college roommates or your parents or a friend who isn’t yet on Twitter,” engineer Stefan Filip said in a blog post. ”That’s why we’re introducing the ability to email a tweet directly from twitter.com.” Everyone on Twitter will be able to use this feature, which would now let them to mail links and pictures to their non- twitter friends. This recent Twitter update has been rolled out to perk up [+more]

Obama’s Victory Tweet: The Most Re-tweeted Post on Twitter

By Ava | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Thu 8 Nov, 2012 12:41 PM UTC

U.S. President Barack Obama secured a second term as president yesterday, but he wasn’t just victorious in the recently conducted presidential polls. He also managed the distinction of having his victory tweet earning the top spot as the most re-tweeted message all over Twitter. It was a simple line, “Four more years”, which he posted along with a picture of him and his wife embracing, but it went on to be shared all across the popular social networking site by his millions of fans. By 11:30AM on Wednesday morning, it had been shared over 670,000 times. This was more than twice the count that Justin Bieber’s message had managed, the previous top re-tweeted message which had around 223,000 re-tweets. Obama’s surely got a huge fan base on Twitter as many of his previous messages also got re-tweeted many times. Another message from him, “This happened because of you”, managed to [+more]

The Recent Twitter Mobile Updates To Give Serious Competition To Facebook’s Instagram

By Sonam Malik | Apps on My Platter, Tech Oh! Mania | Mon 5 Nov, 2012 07:40 AM UTC

All is not well between Facebook and Twitter since the time former has bought the image-sharing app Instagram. As per the recent reports, Twitter is all set to answer back Facebook with the updates for its mobile apps which is going be much similar to Instagram. The update will let users apply filters for their pictures and let them share their pictures over micro blogging sites. However, Twitter has already gained so much popularity that introducing an Instagram like feature may seem unnecessary but it will surely give users an ease to share the pictures. To make the sharing on twitter trouble-free Instagram recently revealed, that it will now translate @mentions for users who have a Twitter username different from their Instagram one. According to Tech 2 “if the @mentioned user’s Instagram account is connected to Twitter, her Instagram username will show up in the image caption, while her [+more]

Piggy Chops Crosses 3 Million Mark On Twitter

By Divya Puri | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania | Sat 20 Oct, 2012 09:50 AM UTC

It’s celebrating time for Priyanka Chopra now that as she crosses 3 million mark on Twitter. PC has 3 million fans on her twitter page and is only behind Amitabh Bachchan who has more than 3.7 million followers on the popular micro-blogging website. Priyanka fans on twitter successfully managed to trend ’3millionPCManiacs’ hours before she crossed the 3 million mark.

Twitter’s New Strategy To Lure Users: Weekly Email Highlights

By Amina Gupta | Hot Off the Mill, Tech Oh! Mania, Yours Socially | Wed 26 Sep, 2012 11:48 AM UTC

In a blog post by the online social networking site and microblogging service- Twitter, the firm made an announcement of introducing a new email newsletter, which will offer users suggestions about following people they already know such as classmates, friends or colleagues. As per written in the blog, Twitter says, This weekly email highlights a handful of people you may know who use Twitter. You can choose to follow any of the suggested people and you can find more people you may know on twitter.com. Suggestions are based on signals like who your friends follow and the contact information imported by people you know. For example, if several people you know follow someone, you may also know them and want to follow them too. There’s no telling who you might find on Twitter, so open this weekly message for an ongoing source of great accounts to follow. However, those who [+more]

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