Twitter is obviously where real-time lives (mostly…). It is an essential networking and conversational tool. Brands should devise a smart plan to organically be relevant and successful on Twitter. The more authentic and real-time your conversation is, the better you will perform as a marketer on Twitter. Twitter and the plethora of research tools that have been built on top of it provide a really powerful place to start listening into trends, influencers, conversations, and jumping in....

Follow Huawei’s 2020 dev conference livestream here Live blog Follow along with TNW’s live blog, which will be updated here throughout the day. Hit refresh for the latest. [9:08]Off to a late start. I’m not mad. But if I hear the same song again I’m switching careers. [9:12]And we’re off. [9:18]HiCar, supported in 150+ vehicle models, could be in more than five million vehicles by 2021. The service is Huawei’s version of Apple’s CarPlay or Android Auto, and it sounds like the company has big plans for it in China....

Twitter has transformed the way many of us enjoy big TV shows. The ‘We’re all watching this together’ feeling of reading the tweets as they flow in from fellow viewers using a shared hashtag adds a social dimension to what used to be a ‘one way’ medium. There’s one problem though: if you watch a show that you’ve recorded, you lose that sense of community as you can’t watch the tweets appear in sync with the show....

WindowSeatis an iOS app that offers an offline, in-flight map for air travelers in the U.S. The major attraction of WindowSeat is that it doesn’t require a network connection or GPS data to track your flight. The app will give you a better understanding of the flight time, your current location and when you’ll arrive. To begin using the app, you will have to first select the airport and the airplane you are boarding....

Two days ago,I wrote aboutFollowgram, a site that gave Instagram users what we’ve all been waiting for: a web interface. Their site allowed users to receive an RSS feed of their Instagram photos and share their profile online with others. This morning we checked back to see that the site had been blocked by Instagram because the site was scraping its content through Instagram’s undocumented and private API endpoints. Essentially, Instagram’s private API is constantly changing and isn’t stabile enough for third party developers to use....