Facebook-owned photo sharing app Instagram has blocked its images from showing up properly on Twitter, in what appears to be a move to force viewers to visit Instagram's own site. Users complained of problems viewing Instagram photos in Twitter's recent "cards" view, which previews select content tweeted out; Twitter subsequently confirmed that Instagram had disabled the integration.
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Social networks responsible for lines at the restroom
Whether you're at a baseball game, a school function, or your parents' house on Christmas surrounded in family members, there's a good chance that at some point you'll find yourself impatiently waiting for the restroom to free up. What could they being doing in there that takes so long?, you might ask yourself, before rather quickly deciding not to think about what might be going on behind the closed door. According to a study by NM Incite, there's a good chance they're checking Facebook and Twitter.
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Facebook crushes social network top 10 in 2012 Nielsen report
This week the folks at Nielsen have reported that their most recent findings in studying the web's usage of social networks has yielded one thing clearer than all else: Facebook takes the cake. They've made it clear that in addition to Facebook continuing to bash up the charts by a significant margin, we've spent 37% more time this year in the month of July on social networks than we did last year at the same time. In just one year, we've tacked on nearly 40% more minutes in a month with Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and the like.
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Twitter adds new email sharing option for tweets
For a long time Twitter assumed if you wanted to share a tweet, you would just tweet it to your followers or friends. The problem with that was there still a large number of people out there who aren't on Twitter that you might want to share with. Twitter has finally announced new a sharing option that will help keep friends not on Twitter in the loop.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 8, 2012
Welcome to Thursday evening everyone - just one more work day to go and we'll have arrived at the weekend once again. This afternoon we received more information about that massive Twitter password reset that occurred earlier in the day, while we learned that a number of Windows Phone 8 handsets will be available to order at both Verizon and AT&T tomorrow, including the HTC Windows Phone 8X. Verizon is expecting to complete its roll out of 4G LTE by mid-2013, while we learned that Grand Theft Auto V will feature Rockstar's biggest in-game world yet.
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Twitter compromised accounts overshadow massive election victory
It's not that Twitter was rooting for Obama, but that they survived the entire election day, night, and next morning that the micro-blogging site would be joyous about if it weren't for the massive password-reset blunder occurring today. Twitter has had a bit of a break-down today and over the past 24 hours with some break-ins on accounts both large and small. The funny thing is though that their break-in wasn't nearly as gigantic as their own password reset blast made it seem.
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Twitter Password Reset-gate mostly a mis-step
It would appear that Twitter is a bit quicker on the trigger than they need to be, today letting the world know that if they did receive a "compromised" email about their account, it may just have been routine. They've been clear with TechCrunch that there were indeed compromised accounts earlier today, but that they'd sent out far too many response emails in reaction. The worst that's come of this, it would seem, is a bit of a panic and a few extra moments in re-setting on the part of the public.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 7, 2012
We did it folks - we made it through another election, which means that we finally get a break from those endless political ads. It won't be long before those ads are playing all over the place again, so savor the moment while you can. We found out today that President Obama set Twitter records with that a tweet that was shared more 600,000 times, and Apple was hit with a hefty fine in a case over patents related to FaceTime. Foxconn is saying that it's still having issues keeping up with iPhone 5 production, and Pixar has named a new building after Steve Jobs.
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Obama sets Twitter record
US president Barack Obama wasn’t just clinching his second term in office yesterday, he was also setting a new Twitter record for the most retweets. The message – “Four more years” and a photo of Obama embracing wife Michelle – quickly smashed through the half-million retweets mark, and at time of writing is at over 630,000, collecting over 200,000 favorites along the way.
Twitter copyright policy change promises “transparency” through censorship
Twitter has prompted user confusion by implementing a new copyright policy that censors contentious tweets rather than deleting them altogether, a shift that the microblogging service argues is more transparent. According to Twitter's legal policy chief, Jeremy Kessel, the change offers "more transparency by processing copyright reports by withholding Tweets, not removing," though some users have still criticized the approach for potentially censoring first and investigating second.
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Twitter to compete with Instagram by adding photo filters, says sources
In this age of digital photography, a picture can be transformed a thousand ways, made to look like a Polaroid snapshot or an antique image, given a moody or artistic or saturated look. Instagram, the social photography app, allows smartphone users to take a picture, apply a filter, and then send it off into the social networking sphere. Now, according to sources, Twitter is poised to take on the popular photography service by adding photo filters to its own mobile app.
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MIT researcher develops algorithm to identify Twitter trends before Twitter can
Topics that are trending on Twitter generate huge amounts of traffic and have the potential to generate serious profits for companies able to take advantage of trending terms. A researcher from MIT claims to have developed a new algorithm that is able to accurately predict topics that will trend on Twitter. The researcher claims that his algorithm can identify trending topics even before Twitter can.
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