If you’ve already implemented a Tweet button onto your site, then you’re familiar with the fact that all you can really do with it is have it retweet an article and perhaps suggest that a user follow a specific account. Today, with the implementation of Twitter’s newest tool calledWeb Intents, your website gets a whole lot more useful. Web Intents are designed to allow you to have a pretty hefty amount of interaction with a tweet....
Twitter is rolling out promoted trends in the UK from today, and the first client up is Sky. A little over a year ago, Twitter started introducing variousadvertising productsfor brands and businesses, and initially these were available only to US companies, though they were directed at Twitter users around the world. But in early September, wereportedthat Twitter was likely to be rolling out promoted trends, tweets and accounts in the UK within a month, and now it’s finally starting....
As Twitter looks to expand itself around the world, localized translations of the website are a must, and as Facebook has shown, crowdsourced voluntary translations are the most effective way doing this. Today Twitter hasannouncedthat its first crowdsourced translations, into Dutch and Indonesian, have gone live – the first fruit of theTranslation Centerit launched earlier this year. This site, which resides on Twitter’s original domain of Twttr.com, provides the tools for volunteers to offer localized versions of all the part s of Twitter’s Web interface and mobile apps....
Twitter hasannouncedthe launch of a new web app version of their homepage. It is accessible now atTwitter.comfrom your Android or iOS Device although it is being rolled out slowly to users so you may not see it right away. The new interface looks incredible and very snappy, with a smart row of icons at the top that mimic the official Twitter app for the iPhone. The new client is built with modern browser technologies like HTML5 and looks like one of the best and most ‘native’ experiences I’ve seen yet in a web-based app....
Been on Twitter lately? You will notice they’ve updated their site with a “Connections” feature, which includes “Also Followed by” and “You Both Follow” much like the beloved “Mutual Friends” feature on Facebook. This is a big step in the social direction for Twitter and is a much welcomed addition. A similar feature was launched, and then pulled in the past. This version appears to be an evolution of the last- with a more fleshed out approach....
