Category: Twitter

Third-party services have been experimenting with various ways of measuring Twitter reputation for some time now, but it turns out that Twitter has its own internal scoring system, and every user has an official reputation score. Twitter hasn't made the algorithm -- or the scores themselves -- public, but former CEO Evan Williams told the Web 2.0 Summit that the scores factor into Twitter's "Who ...

Twitter has been teasing users with an analytics service for some time, a way to track the vital statistics about your tweets and the responses they get. Well, Twitter Analytics has entered a small invitation-only test phase, and the first screenshots are starting to dribble out. Mashable has two screenshots, one showing a "timeline activity" page, with your follows and unfollows over time, ...

Twitter has finally introduced instant notifications for @mentions, starting with SMS users and the Twitter iPhone app. By default, push notifications from the iPhone app will only work when you get a mention from someone you're following. You can change your settings in the iPhone app to receive notifications for all mentions. To do the same for SMS, text "set mentions all" to Twitter. Instant ...

Hey, Twitter fans! Before we jump into this week's cool apps, there's a bit of gossip hanging over the Twitterverse, and I don't think I can sneak by without mentioning that the Twitter founding team of Ev, Biz and Jack is now back together after Jack Dorsey's return to Twitter. Jack was one of the original creators of Twitter, and he served as CEO when the company launched. Later, Evan ...

Apple's Ping social network, built for sharing music preferences with your friends via iTunes, disappeared from everyone's radar right after it launched. It might be getting a second wind now, though, thanks to a partnership with Twitter. Ping now lets you discover and add your Twitter contacts, and share your Ping posts as tweets. Here's how it works, according to Twitter's official blog: ...

Howdy, Twitter fans. Looks like it's Tuesday again already, and it's time for another installment of the best Twitter news and app of. Let's get to it! The biggest news this week is an upcoming improvement to Twitter's Places feature. No, it's not a head-to-head Foursquare or Facebook Places competitor (yet), but it will allow businesses to claim their physical locations. If you haven't seen a ...

Twitter has just announced an update to its official app for Android. The main focus of this update is making the app faster, more polished, and easier to use. Several new features have been added to reach these goals. Let's take them one by one. A new 'tweet details page' is available by simply tapping on a tweet. This page makes it easier to click on links or reply, retweet, favorite or share ...

TweetDeck's User Streams Preview introduced real-time Twitter streams to anyone who was willing to beta test, and now TweetDeck v0.36 is bringing it to the masses. This release merges the User Streams Preview with the "original" branch of the app, giving all users the option to view their friends' tweets in real time. Real-time is on by default, so make sure to turn it off in preferences if ...

Hey, Twitter fans! It's another Twitter Tuesday, and there's one piece of Twitter news that's on everybody's mind: ads are here! Some folks see in-stream advertising as the end of Twitter as we know it, and we're about to find out whether that's true. Twitter's much-discussed Promoted Tweets -- paid Twitter ads that will be injected directly into your Twitter stream -- have started to roll out. ...

Twitter users on Windows Phone 7 now have an official app to play with. Twitter for Windows Phone was created by the Twitter team and Identity Mine -- a development house specializing in Microsoft platforms. The app uses a slick-looking new "Metro" interface, powered by Windows Phone 7's Pivot feature, which lets you navigate by swiping left or right to other pages within the app. In the case of ...

Twitter has just reached 300 full-time employees! It seems like not so very long ago that we were celebrating Ev, Biz and co. for employing more people than the number of characters in a tweet, but now they've more than doubled that. In fact, word is that the growing Twitter flock is looking for a new nest ... I mean, office. Twitter wouldn't comment to TechCrunch about the new digs, but chances ...

It was a huge week for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. He starred in a new ad for Stolichnaya vodka, and he had a piece published in The Atlantic. The vodka commercial is below, but let's dig into Biz's Atlantic editorial a little bit. It's a response to Malcolm Gladwell's recent New Yorker attack on Twitter as a tool for activism. In response to Gladwell's assertion that the American civil ...

Have you ever wanted to create an archive of tweets? Perhaps of your own, or a subject, so that you can analyze trends, see who tweets or retweets a particular keyword the most, or even filter by source. Well that's where The Archivist comes in. Brought to you by Mix Online, a self declared 'opinionated group of designers and developers at Microsoft,' The Archivist is available in two ...

Hey, Twitter fans! With Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 just launching, it's time to take a look at Twitter on this new mobile platform. Microsoft has posted a brief live demo of the app, as well as a video showing off some of its features. If you're thinking about making the switch to Windows Phone 7, and Twitter is important to you, this is well worth checking out. Twitter for WP7 uses the ...

In a big personnel move at Twitter, co-founder Evan Williams is stepping down as CEO. @ev has been one of the faces of Twitter, along with Biz Stone, but he's ready to focus more on product development and hand the reins of Twitter over to COO Dick Costolo. The change makes a lot of sense: Ev didn't get into Twitter to monetize, he got into Twitter to build something cool. Costolo has done a ...