October 22, 2015 Tweets fly back into Google search results after four years of exile It's been a long time coming, but tweets are finally viewable on Google (again).
October 22, 2015 Meerkat embraces Facebook, distances itself from Twitter Live-streaming video app Meerkat launched a few weeks ahead of Periscope, Twitter's own take on live-streaming, and for a short while it seemed as though that would be enough to keep Meerkat ahead.
October 22, 2015 Twitter reports slow user growth but points finger at iOS 8 Twitter beat revenue estimates for Q4, the company announced Thursday, but it wasn’t all good news.
October 22, 2015 Turkey threatens to ban Twitter (again) Turkey-based Twitter users could soon be staring at blank screens again after the government threatened to block the social media service for the second time in less than a year.
October 22, 2015 Twitter widens experiment that turns favorites into retweets Twitter likes to try out new features on a limited number of users before rolling it out to everyone – or ditching it entirely. Its latest experiment involves retweeting users' favorited posts, bringing extra (possibly unwanted) content to Twitter timelines.
October 22, 2015 Twitter acquires startup TapCommerce to enhance ad strategy Twitter announced Monday it'd acquired mobile-ad company TapCommerce. The New York-based startup sells ads designed to encourage users to reengage with apps they've already downloaded onto their mobile device.
October 22, 2015 Ukraine showdown starts social media war The fierce international standoff between the U.S. and Russia has spilled over to social media. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has taunted Western leaders like President Obama on Twitter since sanctions were announced against Moscow. American officials, like Senator John McCain, are blasting right back at them.
October 22, 2015 Twitter website back online after brief outage The website for Twitter appears to be back online Tuesday afternoon, after the microblogging site site a micro-meltdown.
October 22, 2015 Tweet-a-beer: UK brewery creates first tweet-sourced ale A brewery in London named a beer called #Mashtag after Twitter hashtags and also, fittingly, decided on the ingredients with some tweet-sourced input. It was only a matter of time.
October 22, 2015 Gawker writer says cold weather is 'worse than the Holocaust' Travis Okulski, the senior writer and second name on the masthead for Gawker Media’s car blog Jalopnik, compared the cold snap that has struck the East Coast with the Holocaust.
