TweetDeck is the most powerful Twitter tool for tracking real-time conversations. Its flexibility and customizable layout let you keep up with what’s happening on Twitter, across multiple topics and accounts, in real time. To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, […]
From the Index: Beware the viewBook.at and viewAuthor.at link shorteners!
The viewBook.at link shortener service promises you one link to your Kindle book on the appropriate Amazon site for all regions. That seems pretty cool until you realize what’s actually going on when you use their shortener. Not only are you getting a short link, the service provider is adding a referral code to that […]
From c|net: Instagram account crackdown spreads panic, fear of hacking by Jennifer Van Grove
A number of Instagram’s 90 million active users are in a confused panic after being locked out of their accounts over the weekend, and several seem to believe they’ve been hacked. On Saturday, the same day the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app enacted its revised terms or service, Yahoo Answers was inundated with threads from alarmed Instagram users who […]
From Reuters.com: Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit by Dan Levine
Facebook’s Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week. In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on Friday, a California Instagram user leveled breach of contract and other claims […]
From The Next Web: Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets by Martin Bryant
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has promised in recent months that an option for users to download an archive of all the tweets from their accounts would be available this year. At least for some, this long-awaited feature has arrived – and we’ve had a play with the archive browsing tool. The first report of the […]
From TechCrunch: Droidfooding: After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android by Joseph Constine
“In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google’s OS. Now the company’s headquarters is plastered with these eye-popping posters asking Facebookers to “switch today”, and fix Android flaws with its […]
From examiner.com: Facebook users may no longer have their say on privacy policies by Cendrine Marrouat
Are you ready for some major changes? On Wednesday, Facebook proposed an update that will probably ruffle more than a few feathers. The company would like to put an end to its voting system, a three-year old practice that allows users to share their feedback and weigh in on decisions regarding privacy on the site: “We […]