Tag: Twitter

Wasteland DJ Three Dog Actor Expresses Interest in Amazon’s Fallout Adaptation

The actor who brought life to the unforgettable Fallout 3 radio host, Three Dog, has expressed interest in joining Amazon’s highly acclaimed TV adaptation. Erik Todd Dellums, the voice behind the character in Bethesda’s 2008 game, hints at an upcoming project that promises to be even more intense and captivating than Three Dog. With his ...

Vine Shuts Down Today. Export Your Vines Before It’s Too Late!

Twitter’s looping video and social network app Vine was slated for a shutdown back in October, but it looks like the company’s pulling the plug for good starting today. The Vine app was originally going to be pulled from the app store, but Twitter later announced it would be replaced with a lighter app called ...

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Tags: Twitter, Vine

Twitter removes 140 character limit for DM

Like Facebook and Instagram, Twitter has become one of the most powerful social media services on the planet. It has remained in the top ten most visited websites since 2013. One thing that separates Twitter from other social media websites is that it has a specific character limit to what you can send out to ...

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Tags: Facebook, Twitter

Twitter brings its “Experiments” beta to IOS

In 2013, Twitter released a beta they called the “Experiment Program” to Android devices. Only those who accepted the invite for the program on their notifications would become part of the beta, which involves getting new builds to Twitter and being able to test them out before they are officially released. While this caused some ...

Twitter showing weakness in front of Meerkat

Twitter and Meerkat have been at odds in the past couple of weeks, as Twitter abruptly cut off access to Twitter social graphs for Meerkat, the new live-streaming application that took social media by storm. Twitter has purchased Periscope, a competing live streaming application and it is now endorsing the new app heavily to Meerkat ...

Twitter launches Periscope to take on popular app Meerkat in streaming

Twitter has been pretty vocal about its reluctance to accept Meerkat, the recently uber-popular video streaming app that has surfaced in the past few weeks. After blocking streaming from Meerkat, Twitter has finally taken a step forward and announced its own video streaming service, dubbed Periscope. Meerkat has risen to the top of trending apps ...

Twitter data requests from governments growing

Twitter has released its transparency report detailing what kind of requests the service receives from governments and government agencies across the world since July 2014. From the report, BBC News detailed that Twitter had received 40% more requests across the globe to take down content, as well as to release account data of various user ...