Twitter has launched twitter #music,a new music discover service based on Twitter activity. It comes as a web appand a standalone iPhone client.
Main features:
songs on Twitter #music currently come from iTunes, Spotify or Rdio.
tweet songs right from the app.
Follow your favorite artists and see which artists they follow.
currently the service is available in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
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Twitter has released native app Twitter app for Windows 8 and RT.
Twitter app for Windows 8 and RT features:
real-time stories, pictures, videos, conversations, ideas, and inspiration all in your timeline.
Follow people.
your interests to get unfiltered access and unique behind-the-scenes perspectives.
Express yourself with photos, videos and comments.
Discover new topics from people in your network and other information like Trends and Who to Follow suggestions.
share all.
Create the ultimate screen with Snap view on Windows 8.
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Twitter has announced that they are killing TweetDeck for iPhone, Android & AIR to focus on modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck.
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According to twitter’s Director of Information Security Bob Lord their security systems were breached and information for around 250,000 accounts including usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted passwords may have been accessed.
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Twitter announced that the individual profile page redesign will go live for Twitter users worldwide on December 12,2012.User will automatically get this new version of the profile on twitter.com.
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Email Tweets Directly From Twitter’s Website
Twitter has started rolling out the new feature, email tweets from twitter.com.This new twitter feature allows you to send a tweet directly to someone with comments.
To email tweets to your friends
1.Hover the tweet and click the more link beside the Reply, Retweet, and Favorite links and select Email Tweet.
Twitter has released a new look for profile pages and updated Mobile Apps.
Whats new?
A big header image that runs across the top .
Member profile photos have been moved from the top left to the center of the page.
Photo streams now appear below anyone’s most recent Tweets on iPhone, Android and iPad.
Twitter updated its TweetDeck Chrome and web apps.
What’s new in this release?
Now interact with Tweets wherever they appear in TweetDeck without having to add a new column first.
improved follow and unfollow actions if you only have a single Twitter account added.
fixed a few minor bugs.
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The Twitter option has been removed from tumblr “find Find people you know” feature. This was initially noticed by Matt Buchanan of Buzzfeed. The find friends feature was also removed from Instagram late last month.
According to TheNextWeb,Both Twitter and Tumblr confirmed this development.
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Twitter will release Twitter API version 1.1 in coming weeks.
Changes:
Required authentication on every API endpoint.
A new per-endpoint rate-limiting methodology.
Changes to Developer Rules of the Road, especially Twitter clients.
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