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Twitter Launches #music Discovery Service

Twitter #music Actually, Twitter isn’t launching a music service, but a discovery engine. Actual music will initially be served from iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. Previews will by default come from iTunes while subscribers to Spotify and Rdio can log in to hear streams of full songs. Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including...

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WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online

WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online As Today’s Apple WWDC event went off, Apple has made a public stream of the entire event available for those who missed it live. As expected and highly rumored, Apple introduced a new line up of the next generation MacBook Pro, packed with a new Retina Display at 220 PPI, Apple has surprised everybody by delivering an incredibly thin device while also bringing in cutting-edge...

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Twitter Gets an Overhaul with New Faster, Simpler, Cleaner Interface [Updated]

Twitter New UI Do you find Twitter so darn complicated to use? Well, Its time to change your mind, because the guys behind the service has just done a redesign of its web portal and mobile apps. You can update iPhone app right away. Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We’ve simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You’ll see this...

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Twitter to Roll Out Ads and Promoted Tweets in User Timelines

Its final, Twitter would soon begin to roll out ads, Promoted Tweets, in user timelines. The truth is that they’ve been talking about this possibility for a while. And they’ve even tested it with third party partners like Hootsuite. According to MG Siegler. Twitter will start placing them on Twitter.com. The sponsored Tweets will only appear in your timeline if you already follow the account that has paid for the spot. If...

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Twitter Now Delivers 350 Billion Tweets Every Day

Twitter now delivers a whopping 350 billion tweets each day, the company said on Friday by this tweet: Delivering 350 billion Tweets a day is a terribly fun engineering challenge. But, it doesn’t capture how passionate our users are The news comes just one day after Google announced that it had amassed 10 million Google+ users in just two weeks, and that these users share 1 billion items each day. This is good for a 2-week-old...

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Google Realtime Search Goes Offline As The Deal With Twitter Expires

Google’s agreement with Twitter to carry its results has expired, taking with it much of the content that was in the service with it. Google has this explanation: Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2. While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter...

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