Monday, April 14, 2014
You don’t have to tweet for Twitter to consider you an active userYoree Koh reporting at The Wall Street Journal: Twitter said it has 241 million monthly active users the last three months of 2013. Twitter defines a monthly active user as an account that logs in at least once a month. By …Sunday, January 19, 2014
Who cares if I think this link leads to a silly blog post at Forbes.com?No one. Least of all I. I just wrote too many words about why I think the post I link to above isn’t worth the bandwidth it’s transmitted over, but I was being tired and petty and shitting on the good-natured opinion of someone …Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Daniel Victor of the New York Times shows us how to be a reporter even on TwitterThis is a great story precisely because Victor wasn’t writing a blog post about how to properly commit journalism on Twitter, he was properly committing journalism on Twitter.Monday, July 29, 2013
Twitter user arrested for threatening to rape and murder female activistI wrote recently about my disappointment with Twitter’s response to a woman deluged with rape threats. Today, David Edwards of t The Raw Story reports that a man has been arrested in England for threats made against Caroline …Saturday, July 27, 2013
Twitter UK chief responds to abuse concerns after campaigner is deluged with rape threatsThis is a disturbing story, but more broadly it represents a big step backward for a company otherwise known for standing up for its users. Jon Russell, writing at The Next Web: Wang said, via Twitter, that the …Friday, April 5, 2013
Twitter Arrives on Wall Street, Via BloombergInteresting news, but someone call the design police: there’s a crime being committed at every Bloomberg terminal on Wall Street. It’s 2013 and it looks like financial professionals are daily being punished with truly awful interface design. Don’t believe …Monday, March 25, 2013
Easily fake a tweet from anyone’s accountI wonder whether Twitter can eliminate the potential for this stuff, because Shawn King of The Loop is right: it definitely raises concerns for journalists, not to mention anyone whose account lends credence to the crazy things you might say with this …Monday, March 4, 2013
Twitter kills TweetDeck, announces it on Posterous, which they’re also killingI admit, squeezing the entire post into the title is lazy, but at least it’s informative. I’ll link to Twitter’s death notice for Posterous and call it a post.Sunday, February 24, 2013
Twitter kills my favorite Twitter app for AndroidIn August, Twitter turned its back on the sort of independent developers who built their community for them. Now, my favorite Twitter app for Android, Falcon Pro, has hit Twitter’s artificial user limit. They have other apps, (like an incredible …Thursday, November 8, 2012
Twitter and Two-Factor AuthenticationTwo-factor authentication is a pain in the ass. Just ask my Google account or my Dropbox account. But it’s a no-brainer. Savvy users will flock to it, seeing the value in the headache. Less-than-savvy users don’t need to be forced into it, but Twitter is as good …Thursday, October 25, 2012
More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 waysWhat ever happened to seeing a link and clicking on it? I don’t want garish, heavy embedded crap all over Twitter. But alas, it’s not my company or design to screw up, so I’ll stop whining (but not sulking).Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Twitter List CopyI just completely overhauled my Twitter lists, a few days after impulsively unfollowing everyone who didn’t follow me back. I deleted many lists and added many users to the ones I kept. I used Twitter List Copy to import all the users on other people’s lists into pre-existing lists …Tuesday, September 25, 2012
I wanted to post something brief to let you know I made a few small but (I think) useful additions to this site. First, I’ve added a button to the bottom of all posts letting Twitter users reply or ask questions directly from the post. Thanks to the purveyor of kaos.am for unknowingly alerting me to …Saturday, September 22, 2012
Planet of the TweetsTwitter’s extensive research identified four ways news outlets can better engage their audiences. Funny how all four look like things Twitter’s early and most “engaged” users have been doing since the service’s inception. The same users Twitter is frequently screwing with …Thursday, September 20, 2012
IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets, in an email to users today: [ … ] on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed. IFTTT is …Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Twitter continues to value advertiser utility above user experienceRomain Dillet at TechCrunch explains it like this: Now when you land on a company profile page, you will see a big brand name with a small @username below, a gigantic header photo, a small logo next to every tweet, photos of new …Friday, September 14, 2012
Twitter forced to turn over protester’s deleted tweetsMike Isaac, writing at All Things D: In the end, the New York DA and the judge used a legal maneuver to put pressure on Twitter, threatening to hold the company in contempt of court and levy steep fines if it didn’t hand over the data. …Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Twitter files appeal in major social media caseJeff John Roberts provides an update on Twitter’s latest legal battle over at GigaOM. I think it’s fascinating that Twitter is living two lives: They’re vigorously defending the rights of their users to maintain control over what happens to their tweets …Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tent - the decentralized social webTent is decentralized, not federated or centralized. Any Tent server can connect to any other Tent server. All features are available to any server as first-class citizens. Anyone can host their own Tent server. Tent servers can also be run as Tor hidden services …Saturday, August 18, 2012
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter APITwitter’s Michael Sippey posted an update at their Developers Blog yesterday announcing that the company will: essentially be crippling many of the third-party apps that got the company where it is today; and severely bloating and degrading the user …Monday, July 30, 2012
Don’t believe the ‘Apple invests in Twitter’ hype In fact, an Apple investment in Twitter is painted as something Twitter can take or leave, but a partnership Apple desperately needs. Tim Carmody makes a great point in this piece.Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Othman Laraki, Director of Growth and International at Twitter, on the official Twitter Blog: Like other Twitter email notifications, you can manage your preferences for this new digest in your Notification Settings. That is true, but Twitter has opted all users into their new weekly email digest. …Monday, May 7, 2012
I wrote the article below for Temple Law’s student newspaper, Prima Facie. While my views on the topic of copyright liability in the modern Internet’s “sharing economy” continue to evolve, I haven’t made any edits to the version that ran in Prima’s April issue. This is a long post, but I would …Thursday, April 19, 2012
Twitter’s “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” – Marco.org » I recently wrote about Twitter’s promise to use patents only for defensive purposes—the “Innovator’s Patent Agreement” (“IPA,” not to be confused with this). The link above leads to a post by Marco Arment, warning us to read the agreement …Tuesday, April 17, 2012
"Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement" by Adam Messinger, VP of Engineering at the Official Twitter Blog It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation …