“After cutting off prominent app makers like Tweetbot and Twitterific, Twitter today quietly updated its developer terms to ban third-party clients altogether.”
Digital Duplicity: The Social Media Purge Exposes Net Neutrality’s True Goal
“For nearly two decades, Silicon Valley made net neutrality its highest policy priority. Under the banner of a “free and open” internet, Google, Facebook, and Twitter sought regulations to ensure the uninterrupted flow of information by treating every bit equally. Or so they said.”
Twitter turns off its original SMS service in most countries
“For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message. Last week, Twitter turned off the ability to receive SMS messages containing the text of new tweets. The feature was disabled in all but “a few countries” that rely on the feature.”
Twitter Confirms: Algorithm Coming To Your Timeline
“Twitter is introducing an algorithmic component to its timeline that will, at times, reorder tweets, prioritizing them based on what Twitter thinks people most want to see. Twitter confirmed the changes today, which were first reported by BuzzFeed News last week.”
Verizon contacted me on Twitter and asked for my billing password
“On Verizon Wireless’ website, the company advises customers to “[n]ever give your passwords to anyone over the phone, include them in e-mail messages, [or] give them to anyone.” This is good security advice that experts would agree with.”
Twitter improves password-reset options, cracks down on suspicious logins
“Almost a year after rolling out two-factor authentication for verifying your logins, Twitter is announcing another welcome security update. This time, it’s an improved password-reset process and a smarter system for identifying suspicious logins.”
US built dozens of Twitter-like services around the world to promote political debates
“The US government has operated multiple social media services around the world in hopes of providing a forum for debate and possibly political unrest.”
The Potential And Pitfalls Of Twitter’s Mobile Business
“Twitter has millions of monthly users, growing revenue, brand awareness, a propensity for breaking news, and data ripe for mining.”
Twitter makes IPO plans official: files confidential S-1, but expected value is about $14B
“We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.— Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013 Twitter’s note that this is a confidential filing means the company’s annual revenue is less than $1 billion.”
