According to a report from the New York Times, Twitter is going to add filters to pictures to compete with Instagram: In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobilecentric photo-sharing network,...
Are you a fan of the social news service News.me? If so, I'm about to be the bearer of bad news. Twitter's ever-tightening API rules have claimed yet another victim. For those that don't know about News.me, it is best described as a news "curator", which used complex algorithms to pull in news stories based...
Instagram has announced on its blog today it has now made sharing photos with people easier especially when people you know are mentioned on Instagram but their usernames are different from their Twitter usernames. Today's change improves that as @mentions will now be translated via the following scenarios: If the @mentioned user has connected Instagram to Twitter:...
With Twitter's latest announcement, they've added a limit to the amount of users a third-party application can support. The limit allows up to 100,000 user tokens, anything beyond will have to be negotiated with Twitter. Due to the changes, Tapbots has removed the download link to its Tweetbot for Mac Alpha application and released the following...
Two popular social media apps for iOS have recently received minor updates in the iTunes App Store. One is Instagram and the other is the official Twitter client. No new features have been added to either of them, however some bug fixes and stability issues have been addressed. The Twitter iOS app gets an improved pull...
Late last week, a rumor surfaced stating Apple was ready to make a huge investment in Twitter. The investment would've valued Twitter at $10 billion, up from $8.4 billion. Then later on, the Wall Street Journal chimed in noting the investment talks were from over a year ago. So albeit the talks regarding the investment...
It’s pretty rare in this day and age that I read the synopsis of an app and say (out loud, no less,) “What? No way! Now that is cool!” In today’s crowded App Store, it’s rare to come across an app that utilizes technology in a way I’d never seen or heard of before. But that’s exactly...
Nick Bilton over at the New York Times reports Apple could be investing a stake in Twitter, according to unnamed sources: Apple has considered an investment in the hundreds of millions of dollars, one that could value Twitter at more than $10 billion, up from an $8.4 billion valuation last year, these people said. They...
We have seen a few iOS 6 features ported over to iOS 5, via some Cydia tweaks and themes, and today we have another. Scott Forstall introduced iOS 6 at WWDC 2012 and one of the many new features coming is the Twitter and Facebook widgets in the notification center. This is a quick...
Tweetbot has been updated to version 2.4 that includes numerous changes such as a new search view, Read It Later support, and keyword mute filters. The change that I like is the improved search box that allows you to quickly change trends. The entire list of changes are below, and also includes improvements to the...
TwitPic has released their very own app, in the App Store. It is a simple, free app, for taking photos and video and posting them to the popular micro blogging website Twitter. The first thing you do, after installing the app, is log in to your twitter account. If you are on iOS 5 or...
Bloomberg reports sources tell them Twitter was in talks to acquire popular photography app Camera+, shortly after Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion. It was reported earlier that Twitter made an offer for Instagram, but was outbid by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The reason the deal didn't go down between Twitter and Camera+? Apparently the...
