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Today,Twitter announcedit’s rolling out “user galleries,” which aggregate the images you’ve uploaded in your Tweets into an organized page for your viewing pleasure. Images are collected from multiple photo services including yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and of course, Twitter itself for all tweets sent after January 1st, 2010. User galleries will appear on your user profile and will display up to 100 of your most recent images in your Tweets, in chronological order....

Today, if you believed certain corners of the Twitterverse, there had been a shooting in central London. As it turned out, it was the latest case of Twitter helping toamplifyfalse information. “Gun alert in Oxford Circus right now. Is it true?”askedone of the tweets, while many more continued to spread the rumour withtalkof a “Gunman on the move” andsoundsof shots spreading among concerned tweeters. In actual fact, explainsThe Telegraph, the whole thing stemmed from details of a police training exercise in dealing with gunmen somehow ending up being taken as fact and tweeted....

Twitter may open its advertising service to UK businesses and brands in October, providing them with opportunities to offer promoted tweets, trends and accounts to UK-based Twitter users,Marketing Magazine reports. The microblogging service has offered the service through its US sales team for more than a year, providing tools to place tweets in user timelines, promoting accounts in Twitter searches and to rank within the trending topics for a given term....

Updated at the foot of the post. As incredibly useful as Twitter search can be for real-time results, it’s always been a bit painful to actually use. You’d have to head over to search.twitter.com to enter your query, then you’d be given a list of tweets from people who were talking about your search term. While it did work, it didn’t offer much in the way of anything extra. With today’s launch of Twitter’s new search page (now found atTwitter....

We’ve seen plenty of instances when a social media handle of a company has tweeted something that seems like a response from a personal account. It’s human to err, and forget to switch accounts when tweeting. A concept from Lena Emara, a product designer at Twitter, will hopefully prevent you from doing this. Here’s how it works: when you’re tweeting, the app will show you the account the tweet will go out from, on the top of the composition window....