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You might have noticed a strange hashtag at the trending charts on Twitter today, at least in the UK. "#EdBallsDay" is riding strong with tens of thousands Read more

Did you know there's such a thing as a true dark mode? Yeah, neither did we. But, it's a thing, and Twitter just rolled it out. Here's how to get it. Read more

A Twitter employee has tweeted (of course) about a new tool that will enable you to hide replies to your own tweet with the goal being healthier conversations Read more

Why does this matter? Well, follow us down this Twittersphere rabbit hole... Read more

Twitter is bringing back the so-called "chronological timeline". Here's how to change your settings to see tweets in reverse chronological order. Read more

Ever wish you could tell what someone is doing the very moment they tweet? Well, soon, you will be able to find out. Read more

Twitter has confirmed it is testing new changes that will make reply threads look and work much more like Facebook comment threads. Read more

Twitter confirmed it's removing access to APIs that are required for third-party Twitter clients to push notifications or auto-refresh the timeline. Read more

Twitter is asking all its users to change their passwords - and also for all other services they use that same password on. So read this and then go and Read more

Twitter has finally launched its "save for later" toolKeith Coleman, Twitter’s head of product, revealed it in a tweet last autumn that users often ask Read more

Twitter has launched a new feature: the ability to thread tweets.To understand this feature, you have to go back to 2014, when Twitter began letting users Read more

Vine was a mobile app that allowed users to share six-second videos, and now a follow up is in the works. Read more

Twitter is developing a “save for later” feature.The new tool will arrive at some point in the future, as reported by BuzzFeed. Keith Coleman, the Read more

Twitter is considering raising the character limit of tweets to 280, double the amount you are currently restricted to. This, it claims, will enable its Read more

Did you know Twitter has a Night mode feature?Well, Twitter's iOS and Android apps have offered the feature since last year, but now, it's available on Read more

Twitter wants everyone to catch a glimpse of next week's solar eclipse.On 21 August, which is a Monday, a total solar eclipse will be visible across the Read more

Want to score a date with a celebrity?You have a few options: Become rich and famous yourself, try Tinder Select, or try Loveflutter Blue. Since the first Read more

Twitter is a great medium for sharing nuggets of knowledge, pictures of cats and sage life advice.Over the years it's also been a source of entertainment Read more

Twitter is killing Vine as we know it.The video-sharing mobile app, which burst onto the scene in 2013, giving people the ability to create and post 6-second Read more

Twitter and Periscope have just announced they are now rolling out live 360 video, which is more than likely to compete with Facebook Live and Snapchat. Read more

Twitter has updated in a major way: you can now broadcast live video from within the iOS and Android app.In an effort to go after Facebook Live Video and Read more

Twitter has come under fire recently for not giving all its users enough adequate tools to filter out tweets from other users who are harassing them, but Read more

Now you can be one of the cool kids - on Twitter, at least. Twitter has finally opened its blue checkmark to everyone, marking the first time it's allowed Read more

Not to be outdone by other tech giants, it looks like Twitter now plans to jump into virtual reality and augmented reality.Just a week after acquiring Read more

Twitter has recently announced a whole raft of tweaks and changes that are coming to the platform soon, but the first to arrive will be #Stickers, the Read more

Kim Kardashian West has access to a new app that makes Twitter much easier for her to understand and use.The app is called Twitter Engage. Although it's Read more

A pilot scheme has been launched by both Twitter and Transport for London to notify travellers about severe delays to train and Tube services.Customers Read more

Broadcasting is so in right now.Apps like Snapchat let you publish videos in real-time for the world to see, for instance, and then there's social networks Read more

Twitter is making one of the biggest changes to tweet rules since the social network first launched. You will soon be able to tweet images, videos and Read more

Not to be outdone by Snapchat and now Facebook, Periscope has added a live-sketching feature to its iOS app.With this new feature, which Twitter-owned Read more

Vine has introduced the much-welcomed ability to watch all your favourite Viner's clips without having to scroll back.Anyone who has used Twitter-owned Read more

In an attempt to spruce things up a bit, Twitter is testing a new sticker feature.According to Re/Code, Facebook is letting some users add colourful decals Read more

Contrary to rumours, Twitter wants you to continue tweeting in the moment.Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO, confirmed on The Today Show once and for all that Read more

Twitter just caught up with the times.The company has announced a GIF search feature is coming to tweets and direct messages. It is rolling out an honest-to-goodness Read more

Twitter can be a powerful and wonderful tool. While not all of us might have jumped on board straight away, the first 140 characters were actually tweeted 10 Read more

Soon, you might be able to 'Tears of Joy' something on Twitter.Roughly one week after replacing the favourite button with a heart/like button, Twitter Read more

You can no longer "favourite" tweets on Twitter.The social network has announced it killed the function -  represented by a star button across Twitter Read more

Twitter desperately needs a boost to its user-growth rate.The microblogging service has posted its third-quarter results, reporting it had 307 million Read more

Twitter can be intimidating - especially if you're new to the service.In order to take advantage of what can arguably be called the most influential news Read more

After years of allowing its users to choose their own backgrounds for the browser version of Twitter the social network has removed custom background images Read more

A secret Twitter plan, dubbed Project Lightning, has just been revealed. Project Lightning, according to a BuzzFeed interview with Twitter, is going to Read more

If there's one thing we love about Twitter, it's the simplicity. That is about to change, following CEO Dick Costolo's quitting, and your phone may pay Read more

Domino's will soon accept pizza orders through Twitter, making the process of getting a delivery straight to your door as simple as it can possibly be.The Read more

Twitter just posted its first-quarter earnings, and the results were far below Wall Street estimates. That, in conjunction with the company's earnings Read more

Twitter has changed to make retweeting more creative and personalised than it was before. The Twitter quote tweet has arrived.Until now if you wanted Read more

There's no doubt about it: Meerkat and Periscope are the new "in" apps.Instagram and Vine are so yesterday, because living in the now is what people want, Read more

Everybody was talking about Meerkat just a couple of weeks ago, but then Twitter intervened, and now another live-streaming app is all the rage. It's called Read more

Live-streaming yourself is the new way to engage on social media thanks to apps like Meerkat. But while that was made in 8 weeks Twitter's Persicope has Read more

If you search for #meerkat on Twitter right now, you'll see two things: thousands of tweets with that hashtag included, and just as many links to live-streamed Read more

If you've not heard of The Dress meme yet you'll likely start seeing it in one of your social feeds soon. The Dress is proving to be one of the most popular Read more