Note: This is a guest post written by Jeeva Shanmugam – We recently got a piece of news stating that Meta is working on a new text-based app to compete with Twitter. Users will be able to sign on to the app, codenamed P92 or Barcelona, using their Instagram account and password. Their primary app …
Note: This is a guest post written by Jeeva Shanmugam – Concerns over the authority and impact of centralized social networks have grown over the past few years. Many users are worried about the effects this concentration of power has on our society and the possibility of censorship, monitoring, and data exploitation as a result …
What is Mastodon? An in-depth view of the Decentralized Social Networking Platform Read More »
Note: This is a guest post written by Jeeva Shanmugam After Elon Musk acquired Twitter he fired almost 4000 Twitter employees overnight that includes big shots like Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal. Not only that, he consistently brings drastic changes to Twitter, especially pushing the free social medium towards a subscription base platform with Twitter Blue.
Tweetbot is one of the best (if not the best) Twitter apps on iOS (my other favourite was Twitterrific). Tweetbot 5 was a single app purchase on the Apple Store but that has changed. The latest Tweetbot 6 is now a “Free” version which only allows you to read tweets. But if you want to …
Twitter had done many drastic changes in the past. While the original idea was to convey your message in the least words possible (it was kind of like an art to find ways to cut the words down), changes were applied to make sure you could actually say more. Back in May 2016, Twitter removed …
You can now tweet with your actual voice on Twitter Read More »
After seven years without any design changes whatsoever, Twitter.com gets a new makeover. Well, to be fair, Twitter did have new features and changes such as the replies threads (imagine not having this now), more characters limit when composing/replying/attaching media, etc. But this time, it’s a complete design makeover – giving Twitter.com a fresh, new, …
Tweetbot and Twitterrific are two of my most favourite Twitter apps on iOS of all time. They look really good and also more powerful compared to Twitter’s native app. And when I’m on Android, I honestly can’t find any Twitter app that looks this good (maybe Talon?) I somehow keep on switching between the two …
Tweetbot 5 for iOS supports the new iPhone Xs Max and OLED-optimised dark mode Read More »
Have you ever seen someone whom you follow tweeted many tweets in successions on a certain topic? Or a brand’s technical support tweeted with “(1/3)”, “(2/3)” at the end of their tweets to mark that there are more tweets to read due to Twitter’s characters limitations? While Twitter have given us more characters to tweet …
Ah, the art of composing a tweet. There were many times when I had to re-compose my train of thoughts on a tweet to make sure I was adhering to the 140-characters limit. It was an art, but at times can be frustrating because you had to resolve to shortening words like “you” to a …
Twitter now has a 280-characters limit (from 140 characters) Read More »
Saying what you want to say under 140 characters is not easy all the time, but that is the art of tweeting. It teaches you to ponder back what you are about to say in the most effective way possible that it does not sound like ranting and rambling. That said, replies or mentions should …
Replies on Twitter now does not count into your 140-character limit Read More »
At the moment, you can only type in up to 140 characters on Twitter – and those include username mentions, URLs, and media upload URLs. Meaning, you actually have less than 140 characters limit once you take those into account. Twitter made an announcement months ago that they were planning to give you the flexibility …
More stuffs to rant about on Twitter coming September 19th Read More »
Twitter’s 140 character limit is what makes Twitter, a Twitter. Change it to a 1,000 character limit and Twitter will somewhat lose its appeal. It’s an art of its own to try composing your thoughts into a short, concise tweet. But for most cases, it’s kind of an annoyance when Twitter takes into account media …
Twitter is removing media attachments and mentions from 140-character limit Read More »
