Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage in Manhattan this morning to talk with a crowd of the biggest advertisers and brands from Madison Avenue. He brought up a slide of a recent tweet, featuring a picture of race cars spinning out of control. "Usually when there is a crash at the Daytona 500 the ratings go down," Costolo ...
How to Enable Two-Step Verification for Your Twitter Account
on 5.22.13
After months of people yelling at them to increase security, Twitter finally began to roll out two-step verification for its accounts on Wednesday. To ensure that your account is protected, you should enable two-step verification immediately. It only takes about two minutes, and all you need is a cell phone. What is ...
Twitter (Finally!) Rolls Out Two-Step Verification
on 5.22.13
Twitter has announced that it is finally rolling out two-step authentication for accounts, a much-needed security feature that comes after several months of high-profile Twitter account hacks. This feature can be enabled in the Twitter settings menu for any account that has both a confirmed email address and a verified ...
Twitter Expands Tweets to Include Interactive Offer Links
on 5.22.13
Twitter just unveiled the Lead Generation Card, a new expandable tweet format which allows users to show their interest in a particular discount or offer that’s being promoted by their favorite brand. When a user expands the tweet, they’ll see a description of the offer, as well a small button underneath that will allow ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – May 22, 2013
on 5.22.13
Twitter is a great way to get a message or a link out to the world of people who care what you have to say … but what if you mistype or send the wrong URL? If people have re-tweeted you, things can get tricky pretty quickly. That’s where Retwact comes into play. Retwact lets you write a retraction tweet or send an ...
Report: One in Four Teens is on Twitter
on 5.21.13
What social networks are teens flocking to these days? That’s the billion dollar question as we see companies like Yahoo snapping up Tumblr in an effort to keep a younger audience. But teens are a tough audience to predict, and trends can change dramatically even in a single year. About 24 percent of teens who go online ...
Yahoo Adds Twitter Results to Desktop, Mobile Searches
on 5.16.13
Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company’s homepage newsfeed. The new integration will be rolling out “over the next few days” on Yahoo’s US site, available to both desktop and mobile Web users. Yahoo says it plans to include “relevant and ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – May 13, 2013
on 5.13.13
When Snapchat hit iOS, it took the social world by storm. Suddenly, you could send messages to your friends that would self-destruct in a few seconds. It makes sense, then, that people might want to do the same thing with their tweets. That’s where Efemr comes in. Efemr is a web app that lets you “self-destruct” your ...
Warren Buffett Finally Joins Twitter, Gains 1,000 Followers Per Minute
on 5.3.13
Technophobe Warren Buffett finally joined Twitter on Thursday, announcing “Warren is in the house” with his new account, “@WarrenBuffett,” and within just 45 minutes picked up more than 45,000 followers. (For those who aren’t as good with numbers as Buffett, that’s more about 1,000 followers per minute.) After 5 ...
Who Protects Your User Data the Best? Twitter, Apparently
on 5.2.13
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual "Who Has Your Back?" report, ranking 18 companies by how well they protect user information from government eyes. Twitter and Sonic.net get high scores from the EFF, as they meet all six of the organization's privacy guidelines, which include requiring a warrant for ...
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