Good news for those who have been struggling with Twitter’s 140 character count limit. A change expected to roll out within the next two weeks will see Twitter no longer include the characters from URLs or photo URLs in the 140 character limit in each tweet. A change to how Twitter counts characters has been […]
Pixability Announces Video Advertising Solution for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Yesterday, Pixability announced Pixability v4, one of the industry’s most advanced video ad buying solutions. Consumers overwhelmingly turn to walled gardens like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to watch video. However, advertisers remain ill-equipped to activate advertising’s power within these walled gardens. Although combining these online video platforms provides advertisers with the reach of television […]
A Few Big Thoughts on the #Twitter10K Tweet News
How 10K helps Twitter move closer to its roots, and why it isn’t a concession to brands. A few weeks ago, re/code broke the likely-true rumor that Twitter is set to expand its character limit, potentially up to 10,000 characters. A #Twitter10K storm emerged in the aftermath as — irony of lamenting social media change […]
Twitter Launches Polls Within a Tweet
We first saw Twitter testing polls within the tweet a month ago. And now they are rolling it out to all users. So be prepared to be bombarded with a time of useless twitter polls in the very near future. It is being rolled out within the next couple of days, and once it has […]
Twitter Planning to Lift 140 Character Restriction… But How?
Twitter is looking into making changes that make the social media platform unique – a change that would see the limits raised beyond their usual 140 characters in a tweet. Depending on how this is implemented, it could fundamentally change how Twitter works and how users consume tweets. Currently, there are third party services that […]
Twitter Begins Testing Polls Within a Tweet
If you have ever wanted to do a quick poll of your followers, you would either need to watch all your @replies or use a third party off-site polling tool in order to calculate results. But it appears that Twitter is testing a poll that you can embed directly within a tweet. Ryan Hoover posted […]
Twitter Moving t.co URL Shortener to HTTPS
Twitter announced in their developer forums that they plan to move their URL shortener t.co to HTTPS. Twitter is making the change to ensure the links are delivered securely to their users. It was an unsecure loophole that Twitter itself was HTTPS, but even if a link was clicked on that had a destination of […]
Build Your Brand: How to Become a Featured Twitter Chat Guest
(Personal) branding has become one of the most important marketing strategy components these days: well-known brands attract links naturally, people get hired based on their Klout, and everyone googles everyone before entering any business partnership. Your brand is your strongest asset: You can rely on your brand to build up new channels and expand your […]
Twitter Adds Hearts to Their New Mobile UI Test
Twitter is testing a new look to their mobile Twitter UI… and it will likely drive you crazy…. For starter, stars for favorites are gone, and have been replaced with hearts. And it doesn’t get much better from there, especially for regular or longtime Twitter users. Yes, it definitely looks like they hired a teenage […]
Tweets Appearing Real Time in Desktop Google Search Results Now
You might want to be a bit careful about what you tweet about, because Google has made tweets front and center in the search results for both personal names and company names. Google now displays tweets in real time for a wide variety of searches now. While tweets have been appearing in mobile search results […]