It’s not clear why, but it would seem that Twitter’s newly launched service,Twitter for Newsroomshas been blocked in the UAE. We can’t see the logic behind the move, seeing as Twitter is freely available in the UAE, and blocking a service which aims to enhance the experience seems counterproductive. Whether this is an inadvertent block, similar to the one that got Tumblr temporarily blocked inKuwaitis not clear. Only time will tell....
Obvious Corporation, the new endeavor of Twitter founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, has todayannouncedits first project. It’s called Lift and it’s a partnership with developersTony Stubblebineof Crowdvine,Jon Crosbyof Path and designerConnor Montgomery. In a blogposton the Obvious site, Stone describes Lift as an “application for unlocking human potential through positive reinforcement,” stating, “we love this software for what it does, and because we’ve tried it and it works....
Twitter has restricted 50 tweets in India related to a viral video of an elderly Muslim man being assaulted in the town of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. This action comes aftercops sent a notice to summon Twitter India’s chieflast week to give a statement. The Ghaziabad police force had filed a complaint againstTwitter, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, and online media entity The Wire, for allegedly creating communal tension through tweets....
Twitter has added a pop-up message to profile pages when viewed by logged-out users. The message allows users to enter a username, email address and password to sign up right away. It even lets you auto-follow the account you’re currently looking at and three similar accounts from the same interface. In the case of ourThe Next Web accountin the example below, it’s grouped in our@TNWappleTwitter channel as well as two relating to Twitter’s own Tweetdeck service....
If you’re one of the users of Twitter that still gets an email every time you gain a new Twitter follower, you’re going to be seeing a change in the way that the emails are formatted. New media blogger Louis Gray hasspottedthat Twitter has changed the format to highlight the users bio, avatar and a basic set of stats in a centered format. In addition, the section showing the Twitter accounts that that user follows that also follow you and those that you both follow, it has been shortened to a one-line section....
