Twitter News & Articles

It started in early December with Disney-Pixar, Coca-Cola, General Electric, and HP -- 21 top brands in all, which any media outlet would salivate over. These are the Enhanced Profile Pages of the "New Twitter" looking to keep pace (and relevancy) with the changing social order of the web, as other services such as Google+ and Facebook enhance their efforts attract top brands to their sites. Now the company said it will begin a larger rollout to an extended number of brands that include NPR, NBC News,Volkswagon and more.

Twitter upgrades are expected to include new tools for analytics soon.

Twitter is eyeing an international expansion, and with this, the company wants to overcome regulatory and political hurdles, particularly from governments that practice online restrictions. As such, in light of the ideal that "the Tweets must flow," Twitter will be imposing a selective country-based censorship, to ensure that Tweets do flow, albeit with some limitation.

To say there are a lot of tools to help you manage, measure and monitor your social media presence is an understatement. Finding the right tool isn’t easy, but when you find it, it can be life-changing. Such was the case when I discovered SocialBro. Despite its frat boy name, SocialBro delivers a powerful and comprehensive Twitter management dashboard that will make you wish you could manage everything in your life with it. 

For those fed up of skipping between social sites, RockMelt offers all your social activity front-and-center in a highly customizable browser environment. Check out the latest beta with more sharing, interactivity and smarter information displays.

Just when you thought that a microblogging service was simple enough, things like CheckThis come along. Offering fuss-free publishing of micro-sites, CheckThis promises quick posting of micro websites without even the need to go through complicated account signups.

Internet security company Dasient announced in a blog post that it had been acquired by Twitter.

Chinese authorities have recently decided to expand its "online accountability" regulations, with users of microblogging services now required to verify and use their real names. With today's increasing concerns on online censorship and freedom of information around the globe, how will this new regulation affect the growth of social networks and services that thrive on user-generated content?

Twitter is acquiring social news aggregation service Summify. Summify is thrilled at the news. Unfortunately, Summify users are not. 

CoTweet got a revamp this week, as interactive marketing provider ExactTarget announced the launch of SocialEngage, a new and improved version of the social media management platform’s former self. The makeover promises to expand business potential, but survey so far appears skeptical of the hype. Is it merely the same man disguised by expensive designer clothes?

In November, we reported that the folks behind the Webby Awards were embarking on a Webby Talks World Tour in an effort to investigate new trends and to learn from industry leaders. The Tour ended last week, but before it did, David-Michel Davies visited the Smithsonian and we got to listen in.

Google is on the rack this week for ignoring Twitter from its "plus Your World" expanded search feature and over-focusing on its own Google+. We look at the ramifications of that, a ruckus in Africa and see what else happened in the wide world of the company this week.

Google announced several new features to its search service yesterday that leverage information from your Google+ social identity to deliver what it hopes will be more personalized and contextually accurate results. Google is calling it Search plus Your World: vocal opponents are calling it bull cheating.

Eat your heart out, Twitter and Facebook. It seems that brands engaging their audience online might achieve better conversion rates through internet marketing and word-of-mouth efforts than social networks.

With over 100 million active users on Twitter, it can be a pain to verify which account is the real deal, and which are just impostors trying to pose as celebrities and notable people. Twitter has attempted to make sure identities of celebrities are not spoofed with their Verified Account feature, but is the process of verifying an identity really foolproof?