Twitter gives users the ability to add multiple photos and tag friends

Twitter has heightened its effort to make the microblogging website more attractive by now giving users the ability to add multiple photo's (up to 10) and tag friends in photo's.

More importantly,according to their blog post, this new feature doesn't affect the character count in tweets - you still have the usual 140 characters for each tweet.When a user is tagged, they will receive a notification of the tag, very much like in Facebook.

Twitter updated the iOS and Android apps on Wednesday to add this new feature.

Although Twitter has a large user base, they have been performing these recent upgrades to gain more users and to make for a better social experience on the network.

by Ezekiel.T.Ogidan

Twitter to get rid of hashtags and @-replies (or at least send it backstage)

According to a report by BuzzFeed, Vivian Schiller, head of News at Twitter, during her talk at the Newspaper Association of America's mediaXchange conference in Denver confirmed that twitter intends to get rid of Hashtags and @-replies.

According to BuzzFeed, Schiller described Hashtags and @-replies as arcane and hinted that Twitter might soon move them into the background.

Twitter's @vivian calls hashtags & @s "arcane": "We are working on moving the scaffolding of twitter into the background" @cwarzel
— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) March 17, 2014

On investigation of the comments, Twitter said that Vivian Schiller was simply echoing a statement by the company's CEO, Dick Costolo at a recent earnings call:

"By bringing the content of Twitter forward and pushing the scaffolding of the language of Twitter to the background, we can increase high-quality interactions and make it more likely that new or casual users will find this service as indispensable as our existing core users do. And we took initial steps in that direction with the introduction of media forward timelines and in-line social actions in October, and we’re already starting to see early signs that those initiatives are working well."

 According to the BuzzFeed report, the fact that Costolo's statement doesn't specify the type or nature of upgrades, suggests that Schiller might have accidentally hinted at specific targets for upgrade.

Fact is the execution of this propositions would mean the end of twitter as we know it.
It would also kill the fun in this Jimmy Fallon's video

Twitter turns 8; now allows users see their first tweets - bonus:some celebrities first tweets

As twitter turned eight, they decided to give all of its users intense throwbacks. They gave their users the opportunity to view their very first tweets.

Just like the facebook look back video's, the twitters first-tweets website has stormed the micro-blogging site.

All users have to do is visit the first-tweets website, and enter there usernames, and voila!!, out comes your (either lame, swagged-out, or witty) first tweet. Whats more exciting is that you can look at other peoples first tweets!! (sick). So i decided to look at first tweets of some celebrities (i searched majorly for lame ones).

Bill Gates

Taylor Swift

Katy Perry

Jordin Sparks

Avril Lavigne

Lil Wayne

Ice Prince

...And mine

yeah...i know it was quite lame.