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Twitter Admits People Don’t Know How to Use Twitter

Twitter has released two new ads designed to persuade people to join Twitter. However, the social networking site, or rather its ad agency, has taken a rather novel approach to achieving this end. The ads admit Twitter can be hard to understand, before shattering that misapprehension. It feels like Twitter is more important than it… read more »

Twitter Bookmarks Let You Save Tweets for Later

Twitter is actively testing a new feature that will let you save tweets for later. In a fit of creative genius Twitter has called this feature “Bookmarks”, but regardless of how unoriginal it is, this could be a useful tool for Twitter users. Almost as useful as the Mute button, in fact. Twitter is strange…. read more »

Twitter Gives Everyone 280 Characters to Play With

Twitter has decided to give everyone 280 characters to play with. So by the time you read this you should have the option to write tweets of up to 280 characters in length. Why? Because 140 characters is just so 2006. And Twitter needs a miracle if it wants to survive another winter. Twitter began… read more »

How to Back Up or Export Your Twitter Lists

Twitter lists are the social network’s most underrated feature, but one of its most useful. You can use lists to follow a carefully curated topic without flooding your home feed, and can easily share those lists with others. But given how much time and effort goes into lovingly creating those lists, you probably want to back… read more »

These New Filters Help You Beat the Twitter Trolls

Twitter has added another new tool designed to help stop trolls in their tracks. The onus is very much on the user to avoid coming face-to-face with potential harassers, but as it only takes the changing of a few settings to achieve this it’s well worth taking the time to do so. Most people who… read more »

Ed Sheeran Quits Twitter Because People Are Mean

Ed Sheeran, the British singer-songwriter with a striking mop of ginger hair, has quit Twitter. And it’s all the fault of mean people being mean. Or at least that’s what he inferred in an interview with a British tabloid newspaper. Which just shows bullying can affect anyone and everyone. I have been on Twitter for… read more »

You Can Now Filter DMs From Strangers on Twitter

Twitter now lets you filter direct messages from strangers into a separate inbox. Which means you can open up your DMs to everyone without running the risk of getting overwhelmed with abuse. Not that Twitter users would do such a thing, of course. They’re all lovely really. /sarcasm A surprising number of people still don’t… read more »

This Email Trick Posts to Both Twitter and Facebook at the Same Time

The key to updating all of your social media accounts using email is to use an automation service like IFTTT. You can set up several different applets for different types of posts on Twitter and Facebook. Once you’ve done this, you’ll only need to send one email to update both social networks. To post your updates, just send… read more »

Twitter Now Hides Low Quality Tweets From View

Twitter is trying once more to make the social network a nicer place to play. This time it’s rolling out a trio of new features designed to temper the toxicity of Twitter. Will these latest efforts work? If Twitter’s track record is anything to go on then probably not. It’s well known that Twitter has… read more »

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