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Yahoo on Thursday announced a new partnership with Twitter that will see tweets brought directly into the company’s homepage newsfeed. The new integration will be rolling out “over the next few days” on Yahoo’s US site, available to both desktop and mobile Web users. Yahoo says it plans to include “relevant and personalized tweets” alongside Continue Reading →

When Snapchat hit iOS, it took the social world by storm. Suddenly, you could send messages to your friends that would self-destruct in a few seconds. It makes sense, then, that people might want to do the same thing with their tweets. That’s where Efemr comes in. Efemr is a web app that lets you Continue Reading →

Technophobe Warren Buffett finally joined Twitter on Thursday, announcing “Warren is in the house” with his new account, “@WarrenBuffett,” and within just 45 minutes picked up more than 45,000 followers. (For those who aren’t as good with numbers as Buffett, that’s more about 1,000 followers per minute.) After 5 hours, he already has 174,633 followers.  Continue Reading →

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual “Who Has Your Back?” report, ranking 18 companies by how well they protect user information from government eyes. Twitter and Sonic.net get high scores from the EFF, as they meet all six of the organization’s privacy guidelines, which include requiring a warrant for sharing content and telling Continue Reading →

Software developer Stonly Baptiste has created a new Web-based service called Retwact to help people write and share corrections on Twitter. The tool, spotted by National Journal, looks at the user’s most recent tweets that have been reshared by other people on Twitter. Clicking on the green icon next to the appropriate message then brings Continue Reading →

Twitter has been slowly expanding its advertising offerings for some time now — first with more ads in more places, then with more folks able to buy ads. Now it’s taken things one big step further and opened up its self-serve Twitter Ads platform to all users in the United States. That means anyone can Continue Reading →

If a now-deleted tweet is to be believed, Twitter may already have created an app for Google Glass. That’s TechCrunch’s conclusion, at least, as the technology news site has a story up this afternoon positing that someone may already have sent a tweet from an obviously as-yet-unannounced Twitter app for Google Glass. In the photo Continue Reading →

Several high-profile Twitter accounts have fallen victim to hacking attacks lately, and in response to the situation Twitter has issued a memo to media and news organizations suggesting steps they can take to protect themselves moving forward. Buzzfeed has posted the memo in its entirety, which asks organizations to help keep their accounts secure as Continue Reading →

I’ve never had an iPhone, but I will soon. Let me take you back. Ever since I heard the first rumors about the Galaxy S IV, it was the only phone I wanted. The two smartphones I’ve used – the Motorola Droid and Droid 3 – both ran on Android, and while I’ve had tons Continue Reading →

Efemr is a new web app that posts time-limited messages to Twitter; tweets are automatically deleted after an amount of time chosen by you, the user. It’s basically an attempt to apply SnapChat’s hugely popular formula — publishing a message that will eventually “self destruct” — to Twitter, though here your messages are likely to Continue Reading →