Vine, Twitter’s video sharing app that was launched a while ago, is coming to Google’s Android soon, according to Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann. Twitter released an iOS app for Vine about 4 months back which went on to become one of the most popular apps in the Apple’s App Store. He has stated that Vine for Android users is actively being worked on, and will arrive soon, though...

Social blogging platform Tumblr has finally launched a dedicated  Windows Phone 8 app. The app enables Tumblr users to experience the social blogging platform on Microsoft’s mobile operating system, complete with live tiles as well as most of the features that other mobile Tumblr users have been enjoying. The new Tumblr for Windows Phone 8 app lets you post “just about anything from just...

Nokia has unveiled the latest device in its Asha family, the Nokia Asha 210. Available in single- or dual-SIM variants, the phone with qwerty keyboard is the first to have a dedicated WhatsApp button for fast access to the instant messaging app. Nokia touts that the 210 is “the most social Asha yet“. WhatsApp has been available on Asha devices for sometime, but the partnership between...

In yet another boost to the use of social media from mobile devices, Reliance Communications (RCom) has offered free Twitter usage to its prepaid customers. The telecommunications company has signed a unique partnership with Twitter that will allow all GSM prepaid subscribers to send & receive unlimited ‘Tweets’ without incurring any data charges. Normally, all the data flows through a singular...

Twitter has nailed its biggest advertising deal yet with one of the world’s leading ad-buyers Publicis’s Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG). The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The deal with SMG is worth hundreds of millions of dollars over several years and reflects both the growing importance of Twitter in media and marketing, and new thinking on its relationship with...

After quite a bit of speculation, Twitter has taken its music service live on iOS and the web. Basically it is a recommendation engine which crunches data about the music that is trending on the social network. Besides that, Twitter Music also doubles a music app and play full length songs if you have a Rdio or Spotify account. Sadly, these services are not available in India so we cannot take full...

In a bid to further enhance its advertising business, Twitter has unveiled keyword targeting on the platform. The new tool will allow brands to advertise specifically to consumers based on the words they are tweeting. That means the content of your tweets will decide what kind of ads you will see on Twitter. Dubbed as ‘keyword targeting in timelines’ the new ad targeting mechanism is available...

Popular cross-platform messenger WhatsApp has found a home on hundreds of millions of smartphones. Now, the global smartphone messaging service is claiming to have more than 200 million monthly users. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum revealed that the smartphone app is even more popular than microblogging site Twitter. It currently has over 200 million monthly active users, who send out and receive over 20 billion...

In this age of free web services, ads have become the number one source of revenue. However, these ads have evolved. They are no longer static and but have been made to become smarter (or creepier) so that said service can learn more about your behavior, even outside the site. While the need for revenue is understandable, retargeting and behavioral analysis of a person’s web browsing habits even...

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...