Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will allow accounts to self-identify as bots by adding a label to their profile. This feature is designed to help people better differentiate between automated accounts — like bots that retweet the news, public service announcements or other updates — from those operated by humans. It’s not, […]
Twitter users in Turkey can now emoji-react to tweets
Starting today, Twitter is testing Tweet Reactions in Turkey for a limited time. Users in the region will be able to react to tweets using , , , , in addition to . But if you can’t remember the chaos that ensued when the heart react replaced the favorite star in 2015… brace yourself. Last year, Twitter added […]
Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers
Twitter is a useful place for following breaking news and keeping up with what the people you’re already interested in are doing, but its relative dearth of discovery features and a lack of organized community spaces make it pretty hard to connect with anyone you aren’t actively seeking out. The company is thinking about changing […]
Twitter tests a safety feature on web to remove followers without blocking them
Twitter announced yesterday that it’s testing a feature on the web that makes it possible to remove followers without blocking them. Sometimes, users want to stop a follower from seeing their tweets without outright blocking them — if that follower were to navigate directly to their page, it’d be clear that they had been blocked, […]
Twitterユーザーには必須？ もっと便利に進化した「TweetDeck」の実力
パワーユーザー向けのTwitterクライアントとして知られる「TweetDeck」が進化している。リアルタイムでの更新、カラム表示、高度な検索やカスタマイズなど、一般ユーザーにも便利な機能を紹介していこう。
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Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos
Twitter is exploring ways to build a more visually immersive experience with its latest test, which brings edge-to-edge tweets to the app on iOS. Full-width images and videos track for the direction the company has shown some interest in going lately. Twitter introduced bigger images with improved cropping controls for its pair of mobile apps […]
尾瀬ガイド協会、不適切ツイートの対応で評価される
尾瀬国立公園のガイド団体で構成される「尾瀬ガイド協会」は2日、公式Twitterで不適切な発言を行ったとして、公式サイト上で謝罪を行った上で報告書も掲載した（尾瀬ガイド協会報告書、ハフポスト、朝日新聞）。問題となった発言は「都市部がほぼほぼロックダウン状態になったとしても、貴方の心と尾瀬の湿原は広大です。アフガニスタンやミャンマー・ロヒンギャに比べれば幸せです」などで、複数のセクシュアルハラスメント、人種差別的な表現を含んだ内容だった。対応内容に関してはタレコミに譲るが、同協会の上げた報告書の経緯の…
Talking shop with Twitter’s recent head of corp dev — and now VC — Seksom Suriyapa
Seksom Suriyapa was seemingly destined to land at a venture firm. A Stanford Law graduate, he worked at two blue-chip investment banks before joining the cybersecurity company McAfee as a senior corp dev employee, later logging six years at the human resources software company SuccessFactors and, in 2018, landing at Twitter, where he headed up […]
Playbyte’s new app aims to become the ‘TikTok for games’
A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you can play the games created by others. Also like TikTok, the feed becomes more […]
Twitter Will Auto-Block Harassers in Bid To Curb Abuse
Twitter debuted a new product called Safety Mode that will automatically block users who are being aggressive or hateful toward another person in an effort to help reduce harassment. From a report: The social networking company said it will use automat…