Facebook Consumer Marketing Head Goes to Twitter
Twitter has poached Facebook’s head of consumer and mobile marketing, Kate Jhaveri, according to a report. Jhaveri will join Twitter as senior director of consumer marketing, according to AllThingsD. Reps from Twitter and Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment. A Twitter account purported to be Jhaveri’s but not verified tweeted the following Friday […]
Twitter Experiment Lets Users Tweet Highlighted Sentences From Articles
A new feature from The New York Times may change the way people share and discover stories via Twitter . The Times tested a feature it developed that allows users to click on a highlighted sentence from a story, and tweet it out directly, instead of just tweeting the headline. Readers who see the tweet […]
Twitter Teaches You How to Hashtag – Twitter Marketing
Want to be sure your tweet is shared with the right group of users? There’s a hashtag for that — if you can find the right one. Hashtags have become synonymous with Twitter, serving to filter what can otherwise be a wide array of difficult-to-categorize information. Users can join any conversation on the platform by […]
Airing of Anime Film Sparks New Twitter Record
Twitter users have set a lofty benchmark for unified tweeting. The company announced Friday that users set a new record for tweets in one second at 143,199, a figure that shattered the previous record of 33,388. The moment of excessive tweeting occurred during an Aug. 3 airing of Castle in the Sky, a Japanese animated […]
TweetDeck Gets a Makeover With New Tweet Panel
Twitter’s TweetDeck rolled out a handful of new features on Monday, including a new tweet panel designed to enhance the functionality of the application. The new panel, which was highlighted in a post on TweetDeck’s blog, is positioned on the left side of the screen and can remain open while users scroll through their categories […]
Twitter Releasing Music Discovery App This Month
Twitter is planning to release a standalone music app for iOS called Twitter Music as soon as the end of this month. CNET says that Twitter Music will help users to discover artists and will stream music in the app through Soundcloud. The app itself is reportedly powered by technology from We Are Hunted, a […]
