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Twitter for Android TV, Couple Other Platforms is Going Bye-Bye This Week

Tim May 22, 2018 3

Launched in late 2016, Twitter for Android TV is going away this week, probably for good. In a Tweet sent out this morning, Twitter Support says Twitter for Roku, Twitter for Android TV, and Twitter for Xbox will no longer be available starting Thursday, May...

Twitter Switches Over to Own Emoji Service for Select Android Users to Combat Missing Emoji

Tim May 21, 2018 2

Depending on the version of Android your device is running, you may see little boxes with an "X" going through them at times when browsing Twitter. They look like what you see in the header image above. This typically means someone has placed a character or...

Twitter Recommends You Change Your Password Right Away

Kellen May 3, 2018 7

Twitter is recommending that all of its users change their passwords today after finding a bug that unmasked passwords internally. After discovering the bug, they investigated it and found no evidence of a breach. Still, they want you to be safe and consider...

Twitter is Close to Rendering All 3rd-Party Apps Useless (Update)

Tim April 6, 2018 44

Until this morning, we had no idea things were so dire for 3rd-party Twitter applications. According to Apps of a Feather, which appears to be a possible consortium of 3rd-party Twitter app developers, once June 19 of this year comes, something called "...

Flamingo Twitter Client Unpublished Because of Twitter’s Stupid Token Limit

Tim April 6, 2018 8

We wrote up the launch of Flamingo in mid-2016, which at the time, was simply another Twitter client of the already solid number of 3rd-party apps for the tweet-sharing service. This week, I'm sad to report that Flamingo is near to reaching its allotment of...

Twitter Adds Bookmarks!

Kellen February 28, 2018 5

Twitter announced today that it has finally added a Bookmarks feature. For anyone who uses Twitter regularly, yes, this means you can stop liking everything to try and save it for later. You can probably edit your profile too, to remove that "Likes are not...

Twitter Makes It Much Easier to Create Threads

Tim December 12, 2017 2

If the character count increase wasn't already enough, and you still need to make a thread to share your sometimes esoteric views with others, Twitter is making it very easy to create threads. Before this change, users would simply reply to their previous...

Vine Co-Founder Teases Vine 2

Tim December 6, 2017 4

Twitter announced that Vine would shut down last year, with many across the internet quite upset about it. Today, though, the internet has reason to be happy, as one of the founders of Vine is ramping up hype for what could be Vine 2. In a tweet from last...