Twitter might lose its safe harbor protection in India, as the company is yet to comply with the country’snew intermediary rules. This means it’ll be liable for all content posted on the site by users and can be subject to penal action. But it’s not straightforward. While there’s no official word, government sources toldANIthat it’s the only major social network that hasn’t taken necessary steps to comply with the rules:...
In what is being called a “world-first Twitter mash-up”, UK-based laser eye surgery specialists,Ultralase, has built an interesting application that merges data from Twitter with its own in-house records, to visualize (pun intended) the state of the nation’s eyesight by postcode. Whilst data was originally gleaned from the company’s own records, it’s also asking the public to collaborate on the project, by tweeting their own prescription eyewear information with a view to towards creating an interactive map that neatly illustrates the nation’s eyesight....
Ever been annoyed by someone tweeting far too much and spamming up your timeline? If the screenshot below is anything to go by, users of Twitter’s website may not have to worry too much about that any more. As you can see, this account, which is only following three people and is one of many belonging to The Next Web, has seen five posts from @TheNextWeb in a row – and Twitter’s collapsed them down to one, with the option to expand to view all....
Website developers and publishers are finding out the hard way that Twitter has made subtle changes to the way it auto-populates text and links sent to Twitter.com, with buttons utilising the old “status” query string now no longer working on the official Twitter website. Twitter now supports itsWeb Intents platforminstead of the old Status query and has implications for Twitter users and website publishers; buttons utilising the old query string will now be unable to auto-populate a user’s status on Twitter....
Updated at the foot of the post with a statement from Twitter. Please see the statement for clarification. Twitter has begun amending its messaging policy for Verified Accounts, allowing celebrities and brands to receive Direct Messages without having to follow the sender. News came via Nabeel Ziyaan,who noticedthat the requirement to follow a user to receive a Direct Message had now been removed: Now, Twitter verified accounts {Brands} can let followers Direct Message without following back....
