May 30

Tweetbot 1.3 for Mac adds media timeline, support for cover images

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Tweetbot 13 for Mac brings a media timeline, cover images

Tapbots’ Tweetbot for Mac already has a reputation as the desktop Twitter client for media hounds, but a just-posted 1.3 update should make that especially clear. Like its iOS counterpart, the Mac app gains a dedicated media timeline: start a search and you can spotlight only photos and videos. There are a few perks for the vain among us, too. Tweetbot now supports profile cover images, and a redesigned tweet layout shows the counts for those inevitable favorites and retweets. So long as $20 isn’t too much to pay for a dedicated social networking tool, 1.3’s greater media savviness is waiting at the Mac App Store.

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Nov 21

Instagram Badges are now available, because your web profile deserves the love

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Instagram Badges are now available, because your web profile deserves the love

It’s a minor move, but the app that never even acknowledged the desktop world until recently is taking its first notable step to promote Web Profiles. Instagram has today launched Badges, which are intended to help users “link to and promote one’s Instagram web profile.” Sure, designers with the right skill set have been able to do similar for some time, but now it’s easy. Just surf over to your web profile, hit your username and select ‘Badges’ from the drop down menu. And just like that, you’ll be on your way to adding yet another little icon to your About.me page — not like things weren’t crowded enough with Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Google+, Tumblr, Formspring and Foursquare already.

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Nov 05

Instagram rolling out web profiles, sepia toning the world’s browsers one account at a time

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Instagram is getting ready to open up its collection of filtered images to the web. The photosharing service announced via blog post that it’s going to be rolling out web profiles over the next few days, bringing profile photos, bios and shared images to easily navigable URLs at instagram.com/[username]. If you have photos set to private, you’ll still get a profile, but those images won’t be shared with the web at large. The site also notes that web uploading isn’t currently enabled, seeing as how it’s always been focused on mobile devices. If you don’t have a page yet, you should be good to go within the week. In the meantime, you can check out other profiles in Instagram at the source link below.

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Aug 16

Judge rules Facebook users can share friends’ profiles with the feds

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Federal judge rules Facebook users can share friends' profiles with government

It’s not the backdoor access that the FBI has been pushing for, but US District Judge William Pauley III has now ruled that it and other law enforcement agencies are entitled to view your Facebook profile if one of your “friends” gives them permission to do so. As GigaOm reports, that ruling comes as part of a New York City racketeering trial, in which one of the accused, Melvin Colon, had tried to suppress evidence turned up on Facebook that led to his indictment. That information was obtained through an informant who gave investigators access to the profile, something that Colon had argued violated his rights against unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment. In the ruling, Judge Pauley dismissed that claim, likening the Facebook access instead to a phone wiretap in which one person on the call allows the government to monitor it — a practice that has been ruled constitutional. GigaOm also has the ruling in its entirety at the source link below for those interested.

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