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Twitter Goes Down for the Third Time This Month Twitter Goes Down for the Third Time This Month

Some Twitter users may be having some trouble accessing the site. For others, the site is running but experiencing quickness issues. Once again, Twitter has suffered a noteworthy outage. Here’s what Twitter had to say on their Status blog: Some …

Amber Rose Has A Huge Belly But No Stretch Marks Amber Rose Has A Huge Belly But No Stretch Marks
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Model Amber Rose, who is about to pop any day now after nine long months of pregnancy, shared a photo of her belly on Twitter and proudly declared that she has no stretch marks. Rose and fiance Wiz Khalifa plan …

Twitter Lets You View Larger Photos Inside Profile Pages, Adds Videos to Media Galleries Twitter Lets You View Larger Photos Inside Profile Pages, Adds Videos to Media Galleries

Twitter has begun to roll out some nice changes to profile pages that have to deal with the media they contain. First off, Twitter is no longer making you leave the page to view photos when you click them from …

Twitter Expands Tweet Pages to Include More Replies (and Replies to Replies) Twitter Expands Tweet Pages to Include More Replies (and Replies to Replies)

Twitter has just made an improvement to individual tweet pages that, to be honest, has been a long time coming. Now, users can scroll thorough every single reply made to a tweet, even if that tweet garnered dozens and dozens …

Jamie-Lynn Sigler Engaged To Baseball Player Jamie-Lynn Sigler Engaged To Baseball Player
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who most of us will always remember fondly as Meadow Soprano, is engaged to ballplayer Cutter Dykstra. The couple–who have been together about a year–announced the happy news on Twitter, along with a photo of the new rock …

Crashlytics Becomes Part Of Twitter Crashlytics Becomes Part Of Twitter

Twitter has acquired Crashlytics, a reporting tool for mobile app crashes. Twitter confirmed this via Twitter, and Crashlytics took to its blog to announce the news. Co-founders Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang write: We started Crashlytics a little over a …

Vine Says Bye to Porn with Full Block of NSFW Tags, Removal of the “All Videos” Browsing Option Vine Says Bye to Porn with Full Block of NSFW Tags, Removal of the “All Videos” Browsing Option

Vine, Twitter’s hot new 6-second video app with a porn problem, no longer really has a porn problem. Yesterday afternoon, Vine began to block certain porn-related tag searches. Trying to search for #porn? Sorry, you’re out of luck. What about …

Vine Starts Censoring Porn-Related Tag Searches Vine Starts Censoring Porn-Related Tag Searches

In a move that’s hard to say wasn’t expected, Twitter’s new six-second video sharing app Vine has begun to filter out some porn-related searches. No longer can you search for the tags #porn, #boobs, #dick, #sex and many other NSFW …

Did Apple Reduce Vine’s Visibility in the App Store Following Porn Controversy? Did Apple Reduce Vine’s Visibility in the App Store Following Porn Controversy?
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It looks like Apple may have decided to back away from Twitter’s new Vine video-sharing app, just a little bit. It appears that Apple has stopped promoting the app as an “Editor’s Choice” selection. Vine isn’t even highlighted in the …

Twitter Launches New Transparency Report Home, Releases Second Report Twitter Launches New Transparency Report Home, Releases Second Report
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Twitter announced today that it is launching a new Transparency Report home page at transparency.twitter.com. The announcement comes on Data Privacy Day, and the week following the latest release of Google’s Transparency Report. Twitter first released a Transparency Report of …

Dallas Police Succeed in Clearing the Streets of Rogue Fruit Dallas Police Succeed in Clearing the Streets of Rogue Fruit

It’s good advice for anyone to check their sharing settings on any app before they use it – unless people want every high score, game achievement, or check-in to appear on their connected Twitter and Facebook feeds. This advice is …

Of Course Vine Is Full of Porn, and It’s Not Really a Problem Until You Consider Apple Of Course Vine Is Full of Porn, and It’s Not Really a Problem Until You Consider Apple
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Hey everyone, can you believe that people are using a new video-sharing app to share porn videos? An app that makes it easy to record quick clips and share them on Twitter? People? The internet? Porn? Crazy. Sarcasm aside, Twitter’s …

Elle Magazine Mistake Prompts Twitter Reaction Elle Magazine Mistake Prompts Twitter Reaction
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When a magazine as popular as Elle makes a mistake on a social media site as popular as Instagram, people are bound to notice in a hurry. And when someone from the magazine mistakenly captioned a photo of “The Walking …

Tweet Ping Is a Beautiful Single-Purpose Site That Lets You Visualize Tweets in Real Time Tweet Ping Is a Beautiful Single-Purpose Site That Lets You Visualize Tweets in Real Time
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This is a cool single-purpose site alert. It’s called Tweet Ping, and it is a gorgeous visualization of all the tweets in the world, as they post in real time. It also has some cool tracking features at the bottom, …

Facebook Blocks Yandex’s New Wonder App (And Twitter’s Vine) From Data Facebook Blocks Yandex’s New Wonder App (And Twitter’s Vine) From Data

On Thursday, Russian search company Yandex launched a new social search app for the iPhone, called Wonder. The app relied on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, iTunes and Last.fm data. Unfortunately for Yandex, Facebook pulled access to its data, which was …

French Government Ditches ‘Hashtag’ for ‘mot-dièse’ French Government Ditches ‘Hashtag’ for ‘mot-dièse’
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In an attempt to “encourage the presence of the French language on social media networks” against the influx of English language domination of the web, as well as to just be plain difficult, the French government is suggesting that people …

Twitter Must Give Up Anti-Semitic Users, Says French Court Twitter Must Give Up Anti-Semitic Users, Says French Court
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Twitter is once again going to be forced to make a decision on how far they will go to protect the privacy rights of its users, thanks to a ruling made today by a French court. The court ruled that …

Yandex Launches Social Search App Wonder Aimed At US Yandex Launches Social Search App Wonder Aimed At US

Update: Facebook has pulled data from Wonder. More here. Russian search engine company Yandex has launched a new social search app for the iPhone and iPod Touch for people in the U.S. It’s called Wonder, and taps into Facebook, Twitter, …

Vine Disables Twitter Sharing Just Hours After Launch Vine Disables Twitter Sharing Just Hours After Launch

Earlier this afternoon, Twitter unveiled Vine, a standalone iOS app for the creation and sharing of short (six-second) video clips. A video sharing experience was rumored to be in the Twitter pipeline, and it looks like this is it. Vine …

Shaggy Not Dead, Twitter Users Can Relax Shaggy Not Dead, Twitter Users Can Relax
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A death-hoax is making the rounds once again, and once again, singer Shaggy is the victim. The “Wasn’t Me” singer has been on the receiving end of the hoax a couple of times now but fans can rest assured that …

Twitter Launches Six-Second Video App Vine for iPhone Twitter Launches Six-Second Video App Vine for iPhone

As previously reported, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo previewed what an upcoming Twitter video-sharing experience would look like when he tweeted, using Vine, which the company acquired last year. Today, the company officially launched the offering in the form of a …