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Twitter Delivers Brand Pages for Customers Willing to Come up With $25,000

, 1. February 2012

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Last month, Twitter unveiled the new and redesigned Brand Pages for partners. In order fo the interested companies to qualify for this new feature, they must have an active insertion of $25,000 on advertising products on this social network. High profile customers, who already spent at least $2 million on Twitter advertising programs have been [...]

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Twitter Able to Block Country-Specific Tweets

, 29. January 2012

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Twitter has been a massive helping hand when politics has fallen to its knees in a country. It’s a great way of sharing a message – instantly — with the chance of it going viral via the incredibly helpful retweet feature. However, has Twitter recently announced, this specific use could have just vanished as the [...]

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Katie Price, Rio Ferdinand and more making big bucks on Twitter

, 29. January 2012

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Jordan, or Katie Price has she is now known to most, tweeted several times on 22nd January. All tweets were out of the ordinary for her: “Great news about China’s latest GDP figures!!” “Chinese leaders now likely to loosen monetary policy to stimulate growth. Yay!!” OMG!! Eurozone debt problems can only be properly solved by [...]

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Twitter verified a fake account

, 3. January 2012

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Wendi Deng who is married to Rupert Murdoch had a fake account made in her name on Twitter earlier this week. The account went on to be verified without any contact to Deng. Getting a verified account is usually an incredibly difficult process. Example, a major pop-star in the UK has been reaching out for [...]

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Twitter Releases TextSecure for Encrypting Messages

, 24. December 2011

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Twitter just announced the release of a new tool called “TextSecure” in order to encrypt the message in Android mobiles, before users push the send button. ”We’re excited to announce the open source release of TextSecure, our secure text messaging client for Android, which Twitter acquired when we joined their team last month. Whisper System’s development [...]

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Here’s How You Can Invest in Facebook and Twitter

, 23. December 2011

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The tech IPO market consists today of companies like Groupon, Zynga, LinkedIn or Pandora, but the big shot Facebook and Twitter, remain alone in their ivory towers and there’s no easy known way for investors to penetrate the stronghold and buy shares directly. What a waste, is that right?

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Twitter Gets $300 Million in Funding from Saudi Prince

, 19. December 2011

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The richest Saudi Arabian in the world, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, took a serious interest in Twitter, serious enough to invest recently $300 million in this social network, after months of negotiations, as news websites reported earlier today. “Our investment in Twitter reaffirms our ability in identifying suitable opportunities to invest in [...]

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Twitter launches new Twitter for iPhone App

, 8. December 2011

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Less than an hour ago, Twitter announced the launch and gradual roll-out of their new, and totally revamped design and UI. As apart of the day of announcements, both Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android have undertaken a re-design. Many already complaining. TweetDeck, now owned by Twitter is also set for a total overhaul [...]

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