How to Go Live on Twitter
January 5, 2021
Twitter announced that its shutting down Periscope, its dedicated live video streaming service, and apps would be pulled down from app stores in March. According to the company, Periscope was “in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state”…
Twitter Ends Experiment that Made Retweeting Tedious
December 17, 2020
Back in October, Twitter made some changes on its platform around sharing tweets that confused and irked some of the platform’s users. Ahead of the US elections, the company decided to amplify quote tweets over…
Twitter Could Soon Allow You to Restrict Replies to Your Followers
December 8, 2020
Twitter is working on a new way to curb abuse and trolls on the platform that will allow users to restrict replies to their followers only. The test is already ongoing, but the famous app…
Twitter will Allow Users to Apply for Verification Publicly in 2021
November 25, 2020
Twitter will open its public verification program in early 2021 after a three-year-long hiatus. The company paused public verification in November 2017 as it tried to redefine what the blue checkmark meant following a backlash….
Twitter Starts Warning Users Before Liking Labelled Tweets
November 24, 2020
Internet tech giants have been battling with misinformation for the past few weeks. Before, during, and even after U.S elections. But Twitter still has some fight left in it. The social media platform has announced…
Twitter Slows Down Fleets Rollout over Performance and Stability Issues
November 19, 2020
Fleets is Twitter’s take to jump on the Stories bandwagon. Nearly every social app now has a feature that resembles Snapchat’s stories feature. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, LinkedIn, and now Twitter. Twitter started rolling out…
Twitter is Working on a voice message feature for DMs
September 24, 2020
A few months ago, Twitter released a new feature for the feed that would allow people to send audio messages as tweets. This may be seen as the perfect way for some people to communicate…
Twitter Makes Quoted Tweets Easy to Find
September 1, 2020
Quoted tweets receive a dedicated section in Tweet detail view
Twitter Tests Automatic Tweet Translation
August 14, 2020
Twitter is used by many around the world from different regions with different languages. As such, the platform usually lets users chose their preferred language, so they know which kind of tweets to display on…