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Starting today,Twitterhas completely revamped its search, delivering more relevant Tweets when you search for something or click on a trending topic, and showing you related photos and videos. Its “relevance” search feature is a serious move towards Google’s territory, adding greater weight to its bigannouncement yesterdaythat Twitteracquired AdGrok, putting it firmly into place as a relevance and resonance monster in the advertising space. But the big news today isTwitter’s new photosharing feature....

Twitter is addictive, and you can spend hours on it. But it’s hard to focus on one topic when your timeline could be talking about movies, news, and horrible food opinions at the same time. To address that, the firm is rolling out a feature called Communities — think of it as a subreddit for Twitter. You can join a community of dog lovers, Indian food enthusiasts, or plants to talk about that specific topic....

In an effort to beef up its advertising offerings, Twitter has todaybegun to place Promoted Tweetsat the top or near the top of your timeline. These Promoted Tweets will come from organizations that you already follow, ostensibly making it easier to see Tweets that these brands purchase. Twitter says that when visitors go to the site they “expect to be among the first to get a special announcement, access to exclusive content or a great offer....

Twitterjust publisheda great blog postpromoting #longreads, a hash tag that provides more in-depth context and content than 140 characters can ever provide. By searching #longreads, you’ll find tweeted suggestions of long articles and short stories by studious fans of great journalism and long form writing. Twitter suggests the following related accounts to consider following if #longreads strikes your fancy: @longreads: Run by the creator of the hashtag, this account shares the most popular articles and credits whoever surfaced it....

In an attempt to stop future opposition protests inspired by the recent uprising in other Middle Eastern countries, the government of the West African state of Cameroon has banned mobile Twitter. President Paul Biya believes he can cut off future protests by eliminating one of the tools that protesters might use. Journalism blogForeign Policyreports that the official Twitter Mobile accountannouncedthat the service has been suspended by the Cameroonian government. It turns out, however, that his plans have backfired as Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tandenotesthat blocking the service only promoted the awareness of the people, who didn’t even grasp the potential of Twitter as a tool for political activism....