Twitter announced that it acquired Posterous.Posterous is a lightweight blogging platform company.
Twitter says Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption and give notice if make any changes to the service.
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According to Twitter blog,Twitter is now Available in four new languages:Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter is now available in right-to-left languages.
Twitter added these four languages to the Twitter Translation Center on January 25 and more than 13,000 volunteers are contributed in this work worldwide. Now twitter is available in 28 different languages.
Twitter redesign the site Let’s Fly design and also offer some new features.
Tips for creating your own new twitter background
1.Keep important background content on the left of the screen.
2.Twitter.com content is still centered on the page.
3.New design uses fixed width of 865 pixels
4.Twitter Background is left-aligned.
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Twitter has acquired Summify, a social aggregation service that digests the links in one’s Twitter feed and puts them into a daily summary.
And what’s now:
disabled new account registrations.
removed the ability to make your summaries public (i.e. all summaries will be private)
removed profile pages and influence pages
removed the auto-publish feature
disabled user registration from the website, iPhone and Hootsuite apps.
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1.Embeddable Tweets:
Now add any Tweet to your website just by copying and pasting a line of code.It give visitors the ability to reply, retweet and favorite without leaving the page. Try it on your website by clicking “Embed this Tweet” from any permalink page in the newly launched Twitter.
2.Fresh Tweet and Follow Button:
The new #hashtag button and @mention button .#hashtag button tells your visitors there’s an interesting conversation happening on Twitter, and lets them join in with just one click. The @mention button encourages visitors to Tweet to your account.
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what’s new in this new TweetDeck?
No Air installation,now like a standard Windows application.
fresh and new look.
orange and black logo is replaced by a blue Twitter bird.
Every tweet now starts with a boldface name.
All links are Twitter blue inside each tweet.
a larger blue tweet button, which launches a tweet input pop-up window.
defaults to Twitter’s URL shortener and Twitter’s photo services.
new search box
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Twitter rolling out a brand new look and some of new features.
what’s new?
New four-column design (Home,Connect,Discover,Me)
Home:
IT is where you view Tweets from the people you have chosen to follow.
Photos, videos and conversations are embedded directly in Tweets.
Connect:
new Connect section is where you see who has followed or mentioned you, retweeted or favorited one of your Tweets.
Discover:
see results reflecting your interests—based on your current location, what you follow and what’s happening in the world.
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Turpial micro blogging client for Twitter and Identi.ca.
Main features
Use Low Resources.
Desktop Integration.
Optimized API
Mention Asistant.
Easy Mentions, Replys and Favorites, to RT (new and old), Direct Messages, Follow and Unfollows.
Selective Tweets and Time Line.
URL Shortener and Image Uploads.
To install Turpial on ubuntu 11.10
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MetroTwit is a windows twitter client with Metro UI.
Main Features:
multiple-accounts support
drag and drop images from Windows to quickly tweet.
pictures and videos with popup previews for third-party media services
Autocomplete for usernames & hashtags.
Themes and accents.
Resizable and reorderable columns.
Flawless high DPI support.
Quick-glance notifications.
Windows 7 taskbar integration.
Infinite scrolling.
URL shortening and previews.
trending topics.
Follow the tweet breadcrumbs to read the entire Twitter conversation back-and-forth.
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Bitdefender Safego scans for and detects fake profiles set up to flood your Twitter and facebook account with spam, malware and private data exposure and it filters the malicious links to phishing or malware pages. It also keeps your online friends safe.
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