Twitter announced this week that it now supporting account creation using an Apple ID or a Google account. New users can use their Apple ID to sign up on the web, iPadOS and iOS and then choose whether to give Twitter their real email address or hide it by using Apple’s relay service. However, Twitter does require that a date of birth is inputted. However, it seems that there are […]

Twitter has announced today that Fleets, it’s relatively new mode for ‘story like’ content that’s similar to offerings from Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook Instagram is going away in August. Twitter announced Fleets back in November last year, with some mixed reactions. Some users liked it, some didn’t and it seems that the people that didn’t have shown Twitter that they don’t with not using it, as Twitter has said it is […]

This week, Twitter has announced its new subscription service which adds more features to the social network such as undoing a Tweet and some visual customisation of the app logo and app theme as well as priority access to Twitter Support. Twitter Blue will cost $2.99 per month in the US and launched this week in Canada and Australia for $3.49 CAD and $4.49 AUD respectively. Twitter has said the […]

Last week, Twitter announced that for the first time since 2017 it is resuming the Verified Account Program, allowing anyone to request to be verified so long as they are a government officials, journalists or any notable company or brand. Twitter asks for various fields to be filled in to request verification, such as Google Trends data, news references and more. Twitter has said that initially, not everyone will see […]

According to well regarded researcher, Jane Manchum Wong – Twitter could be gearing up to re launch its user verification program next week. The system has been in place for over a decade to give those users a blue checkmark, which means they are verified. Account verification is useful for celebrities, news outlets, politicians and more to help the general public differentiate them from potential parody accounts, or imposters. I […]

Last week, Twitter made a noticeable change to the way the timeline works on its iOS app with the addition of larger image previews, which basically means taller images won’t be cut off anymore. Twitter has long only displayed a 16×9 version of the image to show in the timeline, probably to make scrolling through faster, but it did add some friction to opening images. Twitter was testing this back […]

Next year, Twitter is relaunching its account verification process after a four year absence. The process was shut down in 2017 due to issues with who was being verified and for what reason, such as multiple white supremacists who had received verification. When the program gets reintroduced in 2021, they’ll be new rules in place on who gets verified which are in a draft form at the moment. “Please note […]

Twitter is doing a lot to provide facts, context and general information about what people and companies are tweeting about and one of the latest additions are warning messages if you happen to press ‘like’ on a tweet which has been disputed. This comes after the messages which are present if you retweet or quote retweet an article or disputed tweet. Giving context on why a labeled Tweet is misleading […]

This is an odd occurrence, Twitter is down. As of around 10:30pm BST the website, apps and APIs all stopped working and it seems to be affecting the company globally, Down Detector has over 58,000 people log an error on its site and while the website loads, you just get this error: Twitter has acknowledged the issue and said on its status page “Investigating – We are currently investigating this […]