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Twitterjust announceda simpler way to find and follow Twitter accounts based on your interests. When you search for a topic, you can now discover accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. Previously, you would have seen accounts that have the specific term in their name or username. The new advancement goes beyond the profile and matches based on the topics that a user continually tweets about. To get started, click on the “people” section of the search results page or search from the“Who to follow”page....

Twitter finally announced in ablog postits official support for Japanese hashtags. Hashtags are used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet. By adding the # symbol before a word, it automatically creates a link to search results for that keyword to help users find tweets about the same topic. According toAsiajin, Japanese characters aren’t typically separated by spaces so users will have to insert extra spaces or punctuation marks before and after the hashtag....

Withtoday’s announcementthatTwitterhas partnered withPhotobucketin order to provide a native photo hosting option, the first question out of our mouth was obvious — Who owns the content? In aninterview with Photobucket CEOTom Munro, TNW’s Courtney Boyd Myers asked the question directly: CBM: How will the integration work? TM:The images will be owned by Twitter. Obviously this didn’t sit very well with users, and it didn’t sit well with us either. But Twitter’s Sean Garrett had another opinion:...

Just a day after Clubhouse announced that it’s testingan Android version of its appin closed beta, Twitter said that its live audio product, called Spaces, is nowavailable for anyone with more than 600 followers. So if you have more than 600 followers, you can host a Spaces session on Twitter’s iOS or Android app. But no matter how many followers you have, you can still tune in to different live conversations, and get a chance tospeak if the moderators of a Space invite you to do so....

Twitter has reportedly signed its first ever deal with a PR company, hiring worldwide public relations specialists Edelman, theHolmes Report has revealed.Update below. Having previously worked with Edelman for a short-term project centering on consumer services and launches, the company is thought to have won the Twitter contract, pipping three other agencies to the position. It is not known how Twitter will amend its PR strategy going forward but sources have said that the company will reevaluate its PR requirements after it has briefed the company on its role....