A major change to the way that Twitter counts the characters you use was recently announced. The details were given on the official Twitter blog and the end result is that you can now add some more content to what you write on this social media platform. The famous 140 character count Twitter limit hasn’t changed but the things that are counted have changed. For a start, when you reply to a tweet the @names on it won’t count towards the limit. This means that it will be easier to have conversations. Media Attachments Don’t Count...
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The Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts are set to show us who the most popular songs and artists on social media are at any given time. The lists will be made up based on data from Twitter which shows the amount of traffic for each artist and song. Billboard will be working with Twitter to collate the information necessary to work out the popularity of each artist on a real-time basis. At the moment, the artist with most Twitter followers is Katy Perry, with 51.8 million people currently following her. As well as those established artists...
Twitter was buzzing this morning after a letter from James Bond shockingly told the co-founder of Apple that he was just ‘a computer salesman’, before telling him he was ‘James f!cking Bond’. We are of course talking about the hoax letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs, presented on monogramed paper and dated 1998. This was the first year of the Apple iMac and the letter is a ‘response’ from Sean after being approached by Steve Jobs to appear in an advert for the brand. The reply offers some amazing moments as Sean is clearly...
After a shaky start Twitter’s native iPhone and iPad app came good at the end of 2010 with the promise of more to come and today the micro blogging site came good by rolling out another update for Apple users. The new app has simplified a lot of tasks and added some new features that other unofficial apps already offer. Users can now easily upload photos, attribute a location to their tweets and add links which are automatically shortened, a simple but powerful addition. The Twitpic feature adds a camera icon to the toolbar allowing...
Mere weeks ago Charlie Sheen was admitted to rehab and the two and a half men star looked like he could be down and out forever. Not so if his exploits over the last couple of days are anything to go by, certainly when you consider that he has amassed 1 million Twitter followers is just over 25 hours. Sheen has been mixing things up and grabbing headlines with a string of random comments and behaviour after having his Twitter handle @charliesheen streamlined through the official channels. The zero to 1 million in 25 hours and 16 minutes...