Tweetbot 2.3 adds new Gestures and Storify integration
Tweetbot, the Twitter app that everyone seems to be raving about, was given a hefty update this morning with a slew of new features. The app now features integration with the story curation service Storify, a new tweet detail view, support for the file sharing service Droplr, high-resolution image uploads when on Wi-Fi, a load...
Skype iOS apps updated with UI enhancements and fixes
The Skype iOS apps were both been updated today bringing one new feature: “The ability to move own video preview.” The update also includes a redesigned user-interface for contacts and messages, and a number of performance, stability, and UI fixes listed below. Skype for iPad received the same update except for the redesigned contacts and messages....
Twitter iOS update adds improved discover, search, notifications
Twitter for iPhone and iPad (free, universal) has been updated to version 4.2. This update introduces a number of changes, including an improved discover feature. Now, the app shows an activity feed displaying which of your tweets have been favorited...
Who Needs To See Instagram Photos When Twitter Can Tell You What They Look Like?
Twitter feed of the week – possibly the year – has got to be Text-Only Instagram, which gently pokes fun at Instagram and the kind of photos you often see there. “Latte with foam shaped like a heart,”...Silly rumor of the day: Apple to buy Twitter for $10B
Not going to happen. Not Apple. Not at that price. No matter what Forbes says.
FORTUNE -- At 11:07 a.m. Monday, a brief item hit the business newswires:
Apple may buy Twitter for $10B -- Forbes
At first I assumed it was some kind of mistake. But no, there it was on Forbes.com: A 980-word piece by Eric...
Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation
Twitter’s open source office announced today that it has become a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). As a sponsor, the social networking company will contribute financial resources to the ASF to help suppo......
Apple Marketing SVP Phil Schiller dumps Instagram over expansion to Android
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is not the only photo-loving business executive upset by Instagram in recent weeks. While Dorsey stopped posting photos from his Instagram after Facebook reportedly beat his Twitter to an acquisition of Instagram, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller quit his Instagram for another reason: Android. A reader noticed that Schiller had...
Twitter Vows Never To Weaponize Their Patents, Including Pull-To-Refresh
Do you remember when Twitter patented the pull-to-refresh tech they acquired from Loren Brichter when they purchased Tweetie and made it their official, thereby effectively putting all the apps that use pull-to-refresh (like Tweetbot or even Facebook)...Read It Later’s app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket
Read It Later is making its app completely free -- no more premium version -- and renaming it Pocket to express the fact that users can save any type of content, not just articles.
Kuwaiti writer gets 7 years for slandering religious minority on Twitter
Kuwaiti writer Mohammed Al-Mulaifi was sentenced to seven years of hard labor in prison yesterday for slander and defamation against the country's Shi'ite minority on his Twitter account. He said members of the country's Shi'......
So much for Instagram defections, displaces its buyer Facebook as No. 1 iOS App
O.K., here is another Instagram story, but now its about the iOS app landing the No. 1 free app spot in the App Store for the first time—despite much media attention on the subject of it selling out to Facebook. Hipsters everywhere donning their skinny jeans took to Twitter to post one last heavily filtered image,...
