The fact that Twitter would ultimately evolve to become a media platform may have been anyone’s guess but how exactly the social network was going about it was not exactly clear. However, the developments at Twitter in the last few months have made the picture much more simpler. In the past few months, Twitter has implemented Twitter cards, expanded tweets, refined its mobile offerings, boosted...

Twitter can be a very cryptic social media tool for brands that are new to it. If you are a newborn brand in the world of Twitter, it is very likely that you’ve tried to Google what can be done to increase your followers and how to manage your Twitter account effectively. There is no doubt a plethora of information available that will help you go from crawling to baby steps and give your brand the...

Twitter, popular micro-blogging site with 200 million users globally is likely to enter the US stock market by the first quarter of 2014 with $15 billion public offering. “Twitter Inc plans to file for an IPO as early as the 4th quarter of 2013, and plans to go public in the 1st quarter of 2014,” said US-based PrivCo, a provider of business and financial research on big privately-held...

Twitter announced yesterday that it has crossed the 200 million active user milestone. This means that the service sees that number of active users on a monthly basis. That’s quite a good bit of growth for the microblogging platform since they last announced that they had 140 million users in March. Oddly enough, besides a tweet informing people about the milestone, Twitter has not provided any...

In the past few months, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo repeatedly said that the social media behemoth would make the download-all-tweets option available for users this year. And he seems to have stuck to his word. On Sunday, some users noticed the ‘Your Twitter Archive’ option in their Twitter settings which enabled them to download all their tweets. To put it plainly, Twitter has begun to roll-out...

The Twitter and Instagram rivalry is heating up. Last week Instagram pulled out Twitter card support so that its users could get onto the Instagram web and mobile experience rather than give that advantage over to Twitter.  Now, Twitter’s mobile apps for Android and iOS have got an update which gets Instagram like filters to the micro-blogging service. Twitter announced the new filter functionality...

Komli Media has announced an exclusive partnership with microblogging giant Twitter in order to sell Twitter’s advertising inventory in South East Asia. Komli will have exclusive rights to sell Twitter’s advertising products from the ‘Promoted Products’ category. The partnership will be operational in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This move shows Twitter’s focus on earning...

If you or your business uses Twitter extensively, then there is some good news for you.  Twitter officially announcing the launch of Twitter Web Analytics. Over 3 million websites have integrated Twitter into their portal’s structure and rely on the microblogging site to distribute content, interact with existing and potential consumers, address grievances and so on and so forth. Presently, they...

The way the Twitter ecosystem grows is amazing. There’s hundreds of applications who give a lot more customization than the conventional Twitter Web service. And Twitter seems to be learning from them. The offset is possibly that it could throw the application off-track. Recently, we blogged about Twitter introducing ReTweet officially. And now, Twitter will soon be introducing lists. What are...

It is sad that Yahoo, which is one of the earliest success stories on the Internet is fighting a slew of property shut downs lately. Yahoo had been an early mover in so many things that are sustaining the internet today. They launched email more than 12 years back and though they have sustained to be a leader today in this segment, other properties have not been so lucky. Geocities could have been...