Twitter tops 200 mn active users mark

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 11:17

The number of active users on Twitter has topped 200 million mark, the micro blogging site has announced.

Twitter launches new ‘email sharing’ feature for tweets

Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2012, 15:11

Micro-blogging platform Twitter is soon going to enable a new feature to its website interface, which will make it easier for users to share a tweet via emails.

Twitter accidentally resets users` passwords

Last Updated: Friday, November 9, 2012, 00:27

Micro-blogging site Twitter has apologized for resetting the passwords of its users on Thursday.

China shuts 97,000 blogs, online porn accounts

Last Updated: Saturday, September 29, 2012, 14:37

As part of its anti-pornography drive, Chinese authorities have shut down about 97,000 blog and microblog accounts for spreading pornography and lewd content.

`Twitter has been put between a rock and a hard place`

Last Updated: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 10:37

Twitter’s chief executive Dick Costolo has said the micro-blogging firm will continue to fight the legal challenges brought against its users by legal officials who want access to their archived tweets.

Your tweets can expose the psychopath in you

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 09:10

While many of us may not bother about what we habitually tweet, a study has found these can reveal if we are psychopaths, with our frequently used words such as "die", "kill" and "bury" being some of the key warning signs.

New Twitter `heat maps` reveal `rudest` users on site!

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 19:00

Micro-blogging website Twitter can now tell how polite or profane its users are, thanks to new `animated heat maps` that display the density of tweets posted by its users in a specific region or country.

Twitter co-founders launch new publishing platform ‘Medium’

Last Updated: Thursday, August 16, 2012, 13:54

Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the co-founders of popular micro blogging site Twitter, have launched a new publishing platform named ‘Medium’.

Twitter appears down across much of planet

Last Updated: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 23:58

Micro-blogging site Twitter went down affecting users on multiple continents just minutes after Google restored its GTalk service, which had suffered massive outage on Thursday.