Twitter

Want to play with Twitter’s new music app? You can get it today — if you’re really famous. If not, you’re going to have to wait a week. Here’s the deal: As we wrote yesterday, Twitter is launching its new music discovery app for iOS devices, timed to the start of the Coachella music festival Continue Reading →

Vine announced on Friday that it has released an update to its Explore section in an effort to help its users better discover content. What makes this interesting is that, since it’s a Twitter product, the popular six-second video creator will now include trending hashtags that will allow for more topical posts to be seen. Continue Reading →

A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea’s official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. North Koreas’s Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts started sending out atypical messages and images several hours ago (see Continue Reading →

American Idol producers — for the first time in the show’s 12-season run — will let the public determine one episode’s theme this season, Idol’s wireless sponsor AT&T exclusively told Mashable before Wednesday night’s show. After host Ryan Seacrest makes the announcement during the April 3 performance show, people will be able to submit their Continue Reading →

A recently released Pew study declared, “The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys.”  Sometimes Twitter reaction is more liberal than public opinion, sometimes more conservative, said Pew.  But when it comes to Twitter reaction regarding the 2012 elections and President Obama’s Continue Reading →

Twitter has taken down eight Vine videos associated with the artist Prince, after his record label sent a letter warning of copyright infringement. The notice, posted on Chilling Effects last week and noticed by The Next Web today, described the Vines in question as “unauthorized recordings” and “unauthorized synchronizations.” The label, NPG Records, requested that Continue Reading →

Twitter has updated its Vine video service so that users can embed both their own six-second shorts and those created by other users anywhere on the Internet. The feature has been rolled out today both as an update to the iOS app and the Vine.co website. It’s a feature that’s been requested since Vine launched Continue Reading →

Twitter’s ad revenue is soaring, and a big reason for that is mobile, a market research firm said on Wednesday. eMarketer estimates Twitter will earn $582.8 million in global ad revenue this year, $950 million next year, and $1.33 billion in 2015. According to its boosted forecast, more than half of Twitter’s ad revenue — Continue Reading →

If you’re #dying for #newwaystoexpressyourself then you’re about to read some #goodnews (#rumoralert!). The #wallstreetjournal says #facebook will “incorporate the hashtag” on its own (#copying much?). It seems inevitable: hashtags are probably hitting your news feed. #ugh. Details are scant: “It is unclear how far along Facebook’s work on the hashtag is and the feature Continue Reading →

Twitter is set to launch a standalone music app on iOS before the end of this month, according to CNET. The app, which is going to be called “Twitter Music,” has been built by the team behind the music discovery site We Are Hunted, which Twitter reportedly acquired late last year. We Are Hunted started Continue Reading →