Twitter shows up the X factor via DM’s:

The fate of the 12 remaining contestants on the U.S. version ofThe X Factor will be in the hands of the viewers starting Nov. 2., and they’ll now have a new way to support their favorite performer: Twitter direct message-enabled voting. Though other shows have used Twitter to create buzz, The X Factor will become the first TV competition to [...]

1,600 Advertisers to Twitter.

Twitter’s Chief Revenue Officer Adam Bain took the stage at IAB’s Mixx Conference today and revealed a few milestones for the communications platform, specifically in the advertising area. Bain said that Twitter now has 1,600 advertisers using the platform to reach consumers, and currently has an 80 percent retention rate with advertisers. Back in July Twitter [...]

Twitter Upgrades User Profiles With Image Galleries:

Should you post photos to Twitter via its new photo-uploading tool, or through a third-party photo-sharing service such as yFrog, TwitPic or Instagram, your photos will soon be featured on your Twitter profile in an image gallery. Twitter is rolling out user galleries, as the feature is called, to members beginning Monday. Galleries will automatically display the 100 most recent [...]

Twitter’s up with a New Feature.

Twitter has rolled out a subtle but significant interface enhancement to its web app, prompting users to publicly reply to a user when they visit that person’s profile page. You can see how it works in the example I’ve created here using my own Twitter profile, where the field that was formerly empty now reads [...]

Twitpic Founder Launches Twitter Clone.

Revenge is a dish best served cloned. Twitpic founder Noah Everett has unveiled Heello, his feature-for-feature copy of Twitter. The move comes just a day after Twitter completed the rollout of its photo-sharing service — a direct competitor to Twitpic. Heello looks and acts like Twitter in almost every way. Instead of tweeting, users send “pings” to their [...]

Old Version of Twitter to Be Dropped Down This Week:

  Twitter is finally retiring the old version of its social media service, nearly a year after the launch of New Twitter. “If you’re currently using Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you’ll be upgraded to New Twitter this week,” the company announced in a tweet. Twitter has been warning users since the switch [...]

Promoted Tweets in Timeline :

Twitter users will start seeing ads in their timeline over the next few weeks. The company officially announced on Thursday that a new Promoted Tweets option will roll out with a number of advertisers. This is a big move for Twitter, and certainly its most invasive advertising play to-date. Up until now, Promoted Tweets have only shown [...]

Telcos could be the key to Twitter’s revenue model

At WWDC this year Apple and Twitter announced a new partnership to bring Twitter to iOS devices. While this is impressive, the total number of new iOS users is dwarfed by the number of people who use feature phones worldwide. So how will services like Twitter bridge this opportunity gap? The answer may be found in BlueVia, [...]

Twitter To Officialize Photo-sharing Service : (via Mobile Gameroids)

I am eagerly waiting for this.   Twitter users could soon be using a smoother photo-sharing service as the company plans to announce its intentions on such a service this week at the D9 conference in California, according to several sources, including TechCrunch, which broke the story. Currently, all photos that are posted on a [...]

Twitter To Officialize Photo-sharing Service :

  Twitter users could soon be using a smoother photo-sharing service as the company plans to announce its intentions on such a service this week at the D9 conference in California, according to several sources, including TechCrunch, which broke the story. Currently, all photos that are posted on a user’s twitter account are hosted by [...]