Twitter’s oft-rumored Nearby function, a timeline showing tweets based on your current location, has been seen in the wild, according to The Wall Street Journal. Twitter wouldn’t comment except to say they’re always testing new stuff. [WSJ via AllThingsD]
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Twitter’s decision to make an abrupt about-face on blocking policy after user outcry has highlighted little-understood shortcomings in how social services handle privacy and bullying, sending the 140-character message service back to the drawing board to refine its procedure. Twitter had thought it was improving the relatively blunt blocking process users were offered when it […]
Amid all of the updates Twitter has been rolling out to its service, such as its iOS app being able to send photos through direct messages, Twitter made a controversial decision yesterday to allow blocked users to continue to be able to interact with users that initiated the block. (more…)
Twitter Reverts Changes To Its Blocking Policy After User Feedback original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Twitter has announced that it has made some nice updates to the Mac twitter application. This week Twitter added some new features and tweaked the look and feel of the application. Twitter also made a change this week to how user are blocked on the service resulting in a user outcry and repealed those changes […]
As with any social network on the internet, a fair amount of trolling and harassment goes on with Twitter. One of the only ways to stop a troll’s harassment on social networks is to block that user from being able to follow your account. Traditionally blocking a person on Twitter meant that they could no […]
Twitter has made some changes to the way its block feature works. And many users aren’t too happy about it. Blocking a person now simply mutes them from your stream — creating what some people have called a one-way mirror where the skeezes can look in, but you can’t see out. Update: After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, Twitter has reversed the decision. [The Daily Dot]
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In 2013, 230 million users sent 500 million tweets every single day on Twitter—but what the hell were they talking about?
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Twitter has been making some interesting changes to the way users can direct message one another as back in October, the service announced they would allow any of a user’s followers to send a direct message to you, without requiring you to follow them back. Twitter reversed this idea shortly after it was rolled out, but today, they’re finally taking its direct messaging feature a little more serious with a number of improvements. (more…)
Twitter Updates iOS, Android Apps To Send Photos Through Direct Messages original content from Ubergizmo. 
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How many of you wake up every morning from Monday to Friday, being raring to go to work? Some might dread at the very thought of showing up at the office, even more so when your boss checks up on you in the form of a telepresence robot. Well, I don’t think that too many employees over at Twitter have much to complain about, as Glassdoor’s result on the 50 best places to work for has been revealed, with Twitter trumping the likes of Facebook, Google, and Apple when it falls back upon the different metrics such as work satisfaction, salary, and CEO leadership, among others.
To make matters more interesting, this is also the very first year where the social network made its way to the top 50 list. As for the top company on the overall list, Bain & Company was top dog. It does seem as though times are going great for Twitter this year, where their IPO went ahead without any issue last month, while its shares have been performing pretty well. Free food, communal office space and a fantastic view of the city would surely add to the overall brownie points that make Twitter such a joyful place to be at.
Glassdoor: Twitter Is Best Tech Company To Work For original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Twitter has added support for private image sharing via direct message, in an update to the 140-character messaging service that also sees new, swipeable timelines in the mobile apps. The update, which is released for both the iOS and Android versions of the Twitter app, also brings direct messages further out into the open, adding […]
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