Twitter goes all in with iOS 5, showcasing features on a new landing page

Whether you’ve already upgraded your precious iPhone to the new iOS 5 or not, here’s an update that any Twitter addict can get excited about. Now, clicking the share button on almost every single official Apple app allows you to share your content directly to Twitter, wherever you are. Of course, if you’ve been keeping up with our coverage, you probably alreadyknew that. Over the course of today, we’ve shown you everything the new iOS 5 update brings, includingseveral upgraded Apps, afull review of iOS 5with 15,000 words worth of Apple goodness, including an entireguide to iOS 5’s iCloudservice....

3 min · 536 words · Mackenzie Harris

Twitter goofs up with India’s map — AGAIN

The map first appeared on the company’s career page under the “Tweep Life” section, which describes the employee experience at Twitter. After severe criticism from users, the social network corrected the map. You can see the incorrect representation in the tweet below. Seriously@Twitter!?#BanTwitter: Map of India on Twitter’s careers page.The glaring distortion appears on the career section of Twitter website under the header ‘Tweep Life.‘https://t.co/QKnGMKDxKN@Jackviolation of India’s territorial integrity ,STOP IT....

2 min · 360 words · Courtney Anderson

Twitter has downtime for most for over an hour

According to theTwitter status blog, Twitter has been down on and off for over an hour now. For a real-time communication service like Twitter, that’s a long time to have serious issues like this. As we know, when thenews of Steve Jobs’ passinghit, Twitter was under heavy load for hours with tweets. Impressively, the service withstood the load for the most part, with only intermittent outages. It’s important to note, that through these hiccups, the Twitter status blog was never updated, so it seems as if this is a serious issue....

2 min · 367 words · Ian Mitchell

Twitter has just 3 weeks to comply with India’s new IT rules

Amongst the big tech companies in India, Twitter is currently the odd one out. Google, Facebook, and WhatsApphave already compliedwith India’s new intermediary rules. However, the microblogging platform is yet to do that. Yesterday, the Delhi high court directed Twitter to comply with these rules within three weeks. Notably, Twitter had asked the government of India forat least a three-month extensionto implement the necessary steps. [Read:This dude drove an EV from the Netherlands to New Zealand — here are his 3 top road trip tips]...

2 min · 353 words · Kimberly Johnson

Twitter hires first international country manager, in Japan

It’s no secret that Twitter is trying to expand its international operations, but with most of the focus on where the company willopen an office in the UK, it has gone almost unnoticed that it has already appointed its first international country manager, in Japan. The microblogging giant has appointed James Kondo, a former advisor to the Japanese government, consultant and scholar, to head its operation’s in Japan. He will be asked to help grow Twitter’s userbase in the country, despite the fact it was one of the first countries to start actively utilising the service....

2 min · 338 words · Deborah Floyd
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