
Twitter officially adds support for tweetstorms because 280 characters isn’t long enough
Like the retweet, @ reply and hashtag before it, the tweetstorm has graduated from a user-initiated workaround to an officially supported...

Twitter will now display view counts for all videos, including ads
Twitter has joined YouTube, Facebook and Instagram in publicly displaying how many views each video on its platform has received, the...

Twitter officially enables 280-character limit for all accounts, including brands
Twitter is officially doubling its character count. Less than two months after testing extending tweets’ maximum length to 280...

Twitter announces what’s ‘Happening Now’ for sporting events, and plans for a book
“Happening Now” is launching with sporting events and will make it easier to find tweets about events happening in real time....

Twitter tests doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters
Twitter’s defining feature — the tweet’s 140-character limit — may soon go the way of Instagram’s square posts and Vine’s, well,...

Twitter rolls out new apps; iOS versions support Apple’s ad blockers
Twitter is cleaning up its look and enabling people to clear out ads on web pages opened within its iOS apps. On Thursday, Twitter began...

Twitter officially opens direct messages to chatbots
“Bot” is a tricky word when it comes to Twitter. Maybe that’s why, for all the hype around chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger,...

Businesses can now request customer locations within Twitter Direct Messages
Twitter has just unleashed a new tool that is sure to be a boon for brands with multiple locations. Within a Direct Message, a business...

Twitter drops usernames from replies, giving full 140 characters to respond
Instead of the @usernames showing up in the tweet content, the names will appear above the tweet text itself. By removing the names from...

Twitter will offer viewership stats for Moments makers
Five months after enabling anyone to create a Moment, Twitter will now show these Moment makers how many times people have seen the...

Twitter extends abuse blocking to main timeline, puts offenders on timeout
Twitter continues to step up its attempts to stamp out abuse on its platform. After adding an option for people to block tweets...

Twitter announces Explore, a discovery tool
Move over, Facebook Trending. Twitter’s own revised style of trending stories has been announced today. Called Explore, the objective of...

How Twitter is making its top search results more relevant than recent
Twitter is all about “live,” but its platform can’t all be live because recent doesn’t always equal relevant. Twitter proved this in...

Twitter Live raises questions about Twitter’s other live-streaming product, Periscope
For the second time this week, a company that owns one live-streaming video product has released a second. Twitter, which owns...

Twitter is eliminating its ads that requested people’s personal information
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format that brands could use to request people’s names,...

Ranked conversations have arrived to the Twitter mobile experience
Does your Twitter timeline look different to you on your mobile device? Don’t be shocked; this is Twitter’s new conversation ranking...

Twitter adds keyword, hashtag, emoji blocking to curb abusive tweets
For years, Twitter has had a harassment problem. While that doesn’t seem to have affected marketers’ opinions of Twitter, it could turn...

SEE: How Twitter is stripping ads & engagement options off publisher content
The Twitter/Safari Reader test Last week, Twitter began making use of Safari Reader for some people on iOS devices. Using this strips...

Twitter officially opens up Moments to everyone
Today Twitter is officially opening up Moments so that anyone can curate their own topic-based feed of tweets. A combination of social...
























