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03.31.13Twitter in the Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaAs conservative as Saudi Arabia, you'd think that people here are not social online as you see them offline. Here are some funfacts regarding Saudi Arabia and the micro-blogging site Twitter. One of Twitter's biggest investor is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal who invested $300 million in Twitter two year ago. You can actually compose your tweet in Arabic. 51% of internet users in Saudi Arabia surveyed were active Twitter users, putting it in first place worldwide. Saudi Arabia’s most prominent clerics, Salman al-Awdah has 2.4 million followers on Twitter Saudis are the fastest growing group on the social networking website Twitter with an increase ...
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03.31.13Twiter Users in Saudi Arabia Maybe Required to Use Their Real NameHere's another one of those not-so-good-news that will greatly affect Twitter users in Saudi Arabia. Arab News is reporting that the government planning to end anonymity for Twitter users in the Kingdom by limiting access to the site to people who register their national identification documents or Iqama for Expats. Continue Reading...
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03.22.13Twitter Archives Now Available for DownloadIn line to their 7th anniversary, you can now download all your tweets by requesting the archive from Twitters Setting and it's available in 13 Languages (if you include English). Continue Reading...
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03.22.13Happy 7th Birthday TwitterToday's Twitter 7th Anniversary, yes it's been 7 year since that first tweet of now the company's CEO Jack Dorsey and 4 years since I join twitter. Continue Reading...
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03.22.13Twitter now has a native Windows 8 AppFor twitter users who are using Windows 8 PC and Windows 8 powered slabs, Twitter is now on Windows 8. Aside from the usual Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs. The Windows 8 Twitter app also tales advantage of some of the Windows 8 features that's not available on other devices. Continue Reading...
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03.01.13All of Pope Benedict Tweets are DeletedYesterday was the last day of Pope Benedict and he is the first Pope to retire in 600 years. Even though the Pope was late in using twitter and actually have a a small number of tweets, he have more than 1.5 million followers. The Vatican appears to have deleted Pope Benedict's entire history of tweets and changed the name to "Sede Vacante" which is the Latin for "the seat being vacant". It looks like whoever will be the next Pope, the Vatican wants them to start on a clean slate, well at least with his twitter account.
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01.24.13Twitter launches Vine to share Video on TweetsTwitter introduced today, January 24, a new way to share and embed a video on users's tweets. Through the startup Vine, videos can now be uploaded as tweets using the independent application. Continue Reading...
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01.17.13Twitter to open office in BrazilAfter Facebook, social network giant Twitter is also planning to establish its own office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reports said that the company will be tapping the ever growing online population of the South American country to have it monetized. Continue Reading...
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12.23.12Twitter partners with Vizify to generate user’s ‘Year on Twitter’As the 2012 nears to its final day, social network Twitter is partnering with Vizify to turn all '2012 tweets into a gorgeous, interactive infographic' giving users a chance to see their Year on Twitter. Twitter itself made a list of the most retweeted tweets, biggest conversations, original ideas that came to life because of Twitter, top trends of the year, and top new voices on Twitter. Twitter categorized their list to Golden Tweets, The Pulse of the Planet, Only on Twitter, Top Trend, and New Voices. Continue Reading...
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12.19.12Twitter now offers Tweet ArchivingIf you've been to Twitter for a quite a long time, perhaps you'd want to go back in time and check your tweets. Twitter became our instant partner in expressing our thoughts and reactions whether it's in the real or cyber world. In a blog post, Twitter announced that users can now download an archive of their tweets so you can start searching for those past moments you have shared on your Twitter timeline. Continue Reading...
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