Networkupdater Alerts You To Profile Changes on Facebook and Twitter
The main reason why we use services like Facebook and Twitter is to stalk keep up with our friends. Unfortunately, there is only so much time in a day that…
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Dubai Police Shut Down Twitter and Facebook Accounts
At least 15 UAE Facebook or Twitter accounts have been shut down by order of the Dubai Police this year, The National reports,with ‘electronic crime’ cases more than doubling from…
Pakistan Turns to Interpol after Twitter Declines to Help Censoring
Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Senator Rehman Malik, has taken to Twitter to explain that, following the Twitter blockage over the weekend, the government has contacted Interpol to take up the issue…
Here's the Week's Social Media News in Review
It’s that time of week again when we take a look at the latest social media news, and highlight some of the most interesting stories. You couldn’t avoid news of…
Twitter Blocked in Pakistan
In a move that is all too unsurprising, Pakistan has blocked social networking site Twitter, over a series of “blasphemous drawings”, The Express Tribune reports. The crackdown comes just a…
White House: Twitter's Adopton of Do Not Track is "an Important Step"
In a post shared on the official White House Blog today, the Obama administration expressed its support for Twitter’s move to join the ranks of sites employing the privacy feature,…
Twitter Teams Up With NASCAR
During a live press conference today, NASCAR announced that it is now the first professional sports league that Twitter has partnered directly with. The partnership will allow Twitter to bring…
Twitter Honors Do Not Track in All Modern Browsers
Earlier today, Twitter announced that it would be supporting Mozilla Firefox’s Do Not Track mode in an effort to honor users privacy. Now, it has posted a new help document…
Twitter Now Gives Users a Customized List of Suggested Followers
Twitter has today announced that it will be giving new users a custom-tailored list of suggestions for who to follow. This should help to improve the amount of new accounts…
Twitter Now Supports Do Not Track
Twitter has confirmed via its official account that it supports the Do Not Track feature in Firefox, that allows users to opt-out of third-party tracking cookies, including those used for…
Twitter Opens Its Translation Center for 6 New Languages
Twitter’s Translation Center, originally released in February 2011, has just opened up for six new languages: Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. These six languages were the most requested, and Twitter is…
Why Twitter's Weekly Email Digest is a Great Move
Yesterday, Twitter launched a new weekly email digest that it will be sending out to all members. Contained within are a few hotly shared news stories, the Twitter accounts that…
Twitter Reaches 10m Active Users in the UK, 80% of Them Mobile
A year ago, a service called Twitter, which had taken the web and mobiles by storm, opened up shop in London as part of its global expansion. A year later…
Twitter Launches Stories Digest Email With Summify Tech
Twitter has announced its new weekly email digest, which looks a lot like the Discover tab in the new versions of Twitter mobile and web. The digest is using the…
Twitter Teams Up with GitHub for Open Source Project
GitHub has announced on its blog that the company is teaming up with Twitter to further the development of TwUI, an open source, Core Animation-based UI framework for Mac. TwUI is the same framework that…
