Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Twitter for BlackBerry updated to version 4.0
A few weeks before the official launch of Blackberry 10, Twitter has not forgotten the existing installed base with updating its native application. And the gesture is not trivial since Twitter 4.0 for BlackBerry brings Finally, two functions launched a year ago by the micro-blogging site. First there is the Connect function that brings @ mentions, favorites, subscribers and retweet. The second function is synthesized Discover trends, suggestions for profiles to follow, tweets subscribers.
Newest, Moi tab that profiles, tweets sent, lists and favorites. Functions so already for several weeks in iOS and Android, but to prove that Twitter does not forget Blackberry ...
The application is available on the BlackBerry App World.
Twitter: 200 million active users
In September last year celebrated Twitter 100 million active users, over a year later, there are already 200 million: Befitting a Tweet was the microblogging service a new record known and praised its users: "You are the pulse of the planet"
For more information about the total number of registered users, made Twitter hitherto. If one assumes a constant ratio of active to registered users, you would need more than 400 million users on Twitter to be registered. In September last year at 100 million active users over 200 million users were registered on Twitter. As an active Twitter users among those users who are active at least once a month on Twitter.
Twitter, meanwhile, is building its microblogging service is more widespread and even more trying to find monetization opportunities - not always to the delight of all users. Sun led Twitter after the ban of direct display of Instagram photos own photo filters and rudimentary editing functions. With the TV coverage of knives Nielsen wants the service to develop its own measurement of the impact of television programs on Twitter. Limitations in the API and when accessed by external apps wants Twitter isolate themselves but stronger and draw users to its own services, which added recently for resentment among Entwickerln well as among users.
Twitter for Mac: Retina version is available unofficial
Apple should buy Twitter because all your online experience "is a mess"
Internet remains the unfinished business of Apple. It is not something that only users with criteria THINK brand, but also its former employees.
Patrick Gibson, a former worker teaches the block, has published a post on his personal Tumblr that reviews the online Apple failures and failures. The article tries to justify why Apple should buy Twitter from the point of view of someone knowingly.
Twitter is after fighting over Tweet data
In the debate about whether Twitter must release the tweets one Occupy activists for a process, the micro-blogging service has apparently given way: As the BBC reported, Twitter should have handed over the information to the court on Friday. The tweets, the report says, but still remain unchecked, until a decision on an appeal, the counsel for the defendant to have been inserted.
Previously, Twitter had failed with an appeal against the publication, after which the judge affirmed a decision by the end of June. According to which Twitter would have had until this Friday (September 14) time to transfer the data. Otherwise, the company would have to submit the numbers of the last two quarters, so that the court can determine an appropriate penalty.
The dispute stems from a process initiated in January 2012 at an Occupy activist who was arrested in October 2011 at a demonstration. Prosecutors hope to gain from the deleted tweets from a specific period insight as to whether the defendant was informed in advance that an illegal march.
Twitter provides internal package manager for Web applications
Apparently to project components such as CSS and JavaScript files together and manage their dependencies automatically, Twitter has been used internally developed the package manager Bower. Now the operator of the microblogging service have put him on GitHub as open source project. Should, with the increasing use in their own projects, so Twitter, also a long-term availability and care must be ensured.
Components of the project, in the diction of Bower "components", can be installed via direct call in components folder. Exact versioning but apparently you can better control of package files. In such files in JSON format can be configured to explicit package name and dependencies. Delivery to clients can be done via a simple script tag, but also about how libraries Sprockets or RequireJS. For an alias mapping Bowerd turn can generate JSON objects.
Bower is itself a Node.js application and is easy to install via package manager npm (Node.js Package Manager) of JavaScript frameworks.
Twitter announces restrictive API
Twitter has announced in a post on the developer's blog version 1.1 of its API. You will permit no later than March 2013 only via OAuth-authenticated requests, also will the number of calls per REST URL ("endpoint") is limited to 60 per hour. So far more than 350 API requests per hour, a total permissible. From the official release of the API developers remained six months to convert their applications.
The aim of the changes it was, at the Twitter responsible for consumer Michael Sippey explained in the blog post, to enable more enterprise applications and traditional Twitter clients to support less. They had "tremendous innovation" as seen in products, analyzed the Twitter content for Geschätskunden.
John Gruber gave Twitter on his blog Daring Fireball: "Klout, this pompous, masturbatory nonsense, should be OK, but services like Storify and favstar that are really useful or fun should suck.."
Even the Instapaper founder Marco Arment is concerned with the changes. He sums up his critique it together. "I certainly would not build a business on Twitter, and I do not think I would build, nor any non-trivial functions on it and I would be busy with Twitter clients, I would be working on a start another product. "
However, keeps the blogger and political consultant Anil Dash, the announced changes for problems - they concerned Twitter users anyway. He accused the company, however, express themselves unclear and leave too much room for interpretation
Twitter: Developers complain insecurities
The short message service Twitter wants to tighten its platform rules. In future, users should get a "consistent experience" to see. In plain language this means that as many users to use the service directly via Twitter deals, where can be switched to advertising. Currently is not yet in sight, just like the platform will change. Start-ups and investors in the Twitter environment are still nervous, Technology Review reported in its online edition.
The uncertainty is already leading to economic losses, such as the long-time Internet entrepreneur Nova Spivack says. His latest start-up, Bottlenose, is building a product that allows users to find interesting news, the importance of which is determined by activities in different social networks, including Twitter. "There are many companies that restrict their activities and ask yourself how it goes." This policy of Twitter was "irresponsible."
Spivack has contacted Twitter, how it goes, but received no response. From other start-ups like he heard, first firms had problems even to collect fresh money. For this reason, Spivack is now launching a petition. "Twitter needs to keep his promise to remain an open platform." At least the company must make their intentions clear to the developers.
A less open Twitter could harm innovation in the social networking area. "If you will not come to the data, are the things you can do with the service, much less interesting," says Ed Finkler, developer of an open source client for Twitter, which has stopped working on it now. Twitter's new rules would have spoiled him.
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