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Pinterest adds support for Twitter Cards!
There seems to be mild drama between social networks. Just while ago Instagram took support for Twitter Cards away, and now Pinterest quietly added support for Twitter Cards. Twitter user Kelly Lieberman first noted these changes and shared the details in her blog. As Pinterest added support for Twitter Cards, this makes it look much better than only link to the site.
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Twitter takes on Instagram with built-in photo filters, available for iOS and Android!
Twitter has released rumored built-in photo filters feature for Android and iOS devices. Twitter for Android update includes this new feature already, and it will arrive to iOS devices sometime today. The app now offers eight filters, including “black&white, vignette, cinematic, vintage, warm, cool, happy and gritty” tones. You can also edit the image straight in app, cropping, zooming and auto-image enhancement included. Aviary, the company behind these filters says “each filter was designed from the ground up exclusively for Twitter.”
This is straight response to Facebook’s purchase of Instagram earlier this year. Facebook ended the support for Twitter cards wiping out Instagram photos from Twitter and leaving only links to Instagram’s website.
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Twitter to introduce picture filters before the holidays?
After cutting out Instagram photo cards from the Twitter, company is going to introduce their own picture filters before the holidays, according to report from AllThingsD. Jack Dorsey, Chairman of Twitter, just posted a photo on his Twitter account, and it looks like that he’s using filters on his photos without using any 3rd party app. Now it’s highly believed that Twitter is going to launch it’s own picture filters, and users don’t need to use 3rd party apps to share those photo goodies. During thanksgiving holiday, Instagram reportedly added 200 photos every second, over 14 million for the day overall.
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Twitter’s first designer, Vítor Lourenço, leaves the company!
Image Credit: Abduzeedo.comTwitter’s first designer, Vítor Lourenço, leaves the company after working there five years. He announced his departure today in his Twitter account, he also thanked Ev Williams for giving him the chance to work in the company. TechCrunch writes in their site that, “Some people will read too much into this, as a sign that things are shifting in a bad way at Twitter.” Anyway it’s very impressive to work 5 years in one of the largest social-network company in the world, after all that business is constantly changing and many people will be disappointed that they can’t make it.
Here is interview of Vítor Lourenço, which he gave to TechCrunch back in 2009:
You’re best known for having worked on one of the largest websites in the world, Twitter. Can you tell us about the steps you took to transform this already simple website to the more elegant, intuitive style so many people have come to know and love?
I worked with Twitter’s engineering team to simplify the application UI even more, by following some of John Maeda’s simplicity concepts: shrink, hide and embody. Therefore, the application didn’t loose any of it’s features, but they were better grouped and incorporated on the site, by introducing a unified sidebar with a vertical tabbed navigation. In terms of visual design, we refined the typography, button styles and fixed spacing and grid inconsistencies. On the front-end technical layer, we introduced AJAX for posting the updates and switching tabs, while improving the site’s performance by grouping images using CSS sprites.
So… It’s time for me to leave Twitter. It’s been an amazing five years. Thanks for taking a chance on me, @ev.
— Vítor Lourenço (@vl) marraskuu 26, 2012
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Oprah tweets love for Microsoft Surface using an iPad!
Oprah hasn’t been hiding her feelings toward Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Earlier this month Oprah tweeted that Surface is one her favorite things. This morning, Oprah tweeted again her love towards Surface tablet, telling that she’s bought 12 of them already, but still she uses Twitter for iPad app to do so.
Oprah have prepared list of her 48 favorite things, and Surface tablet is in that list, along side with Beats by Dre powerbeats and many other tech gadgets. I think that Oprah don’t know very well that there’s also some Twitter apps for Windows RT tablet, such as Tweetro, Rowl and Metro Tweet. Twitter has also promised that it will launch it’s own app in coming weeks or months.
Seems that Oprah tweets love for Surface by using it’s competitors device, but yeah we all do that, right? Not really i guess.
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Twitter brings it’s content preview cards to Android and iPhone!
Twitter brings it’s content preview cards to Android and iPhone, allowing users to view photo and article previews from more than 2,000 partners. New update gives users article summary and photo preview cards whenever they search tweets or just browse discovery tab. You can also now find out what’s popular among the people you’re connected with in simple stream of tweet’s, just tap
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Twitter is reportedly developing Instagram-style photo filters!
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According to report from NYTimes, Twitter is developing Instagram-styled photo filters to it’s mobile apps in the coming months. There’s no official word from Twitter, but it seems that new feature is direct response to Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Instagram have become the most number one social photo sharing app and Twitter wants to get their share of the photos sharing success by creating their own feature similar to Instagram.
Twitter also would like that it’s users would take photos by using it’s own platform and now Facebook owned Instagram’s. Facebook hasn’t give any indication that it would start restrict services that Instagram can plug into, but surely if Facebook would cut Twitter away from Instagram, Twitter won’t be too happy about it.
Source: NY Times
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Twitter to release official Windows 8 app in coming months!
Twitter revealed it’s plans to launch official Twitter app for Windows 8. They told in tweet that they are going to launch official Twitter app in coming months. There’s already an app for Mac, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8 and Blackberry. Microsoft just announced today that they sold over 4 million copies of Windows 8 Upgrades in few days, so there’s going to be many happy Windows 8 tweeties.
#Windows8 needs a great Twitter app. So we’re building it. Looking forward to sharing it with you in the months ahead.
— Twitter Mobile (@twittermobile) lokakuu 30, 2012
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Tweetdeck gets new visual refresh on all platforms!
Tweetdeck just got new refreshed design update on all platforms, except iOS. Twitter acquired TweetDeck last year and now they released “first” design update to it. Last year company gave it an overhaul update, but they didn’t touch the design of the app. Now you can change your app them and your font size. There’s currently two different themes to choose from, dark and light.
Here is what company said in their developer blog:
Today we updated the TweetDeck app on all our supported platforms – web, Chrome, Mac and Windows. The update is live now on web.tweetdeck.com. If you use the Windows app, just restart to trigger an auto-update. Chrome app users should restart Chrome to update the app and the updated Mac app is available now in the Mac App Store.
This update makes TweetDeck easier to use with design enhancements, personalization options and the addition of several frequently-requested features.
Source: Twitter developer blog
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Twitter building it’s own video hosting service?!
Twitter is building it’s own video hosting service, according to anonymous source who told it to AllThingsD. Twitter is already allowing photos to be uploaded straight to it’s servers and next logical step would be allowing video uploads too. Video uploads requires more bandwidth than photo uploads, that could be challenging for Twitter to overcome if they don’t have infrastructure to support it.
AllThingsD also stated that new video hosting service could be proven very popular among advertisers. “A simpler, more reliable way for partners to host their video makes for a better, media-rich stream. In theory, it’s good for both users and advertisers” -AllThingsD.
YouTube and Vimeo might take a hit if Twitter’s video hosting service goes public, although Twitter would still allow videos uploaded to other services linked, an in-house Twitter service could lead to a drop in video uploads from them.
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