Larry Magid: Twitter Allows Direct Messages From People You Don't Follow
Twitter is making a change to its site that will let users receive direct messages from people who aren't following them back.
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Twitter is making a change to its site that will let users receive direct messages from people who aren't following them back.
Twitter will be coming off its biggest quarterly loss in the past three years when the online messaging service brings its IPO to the New York Stock Exchange later this fall.
Who's watching you? What are they learning about you? And how can you turn it off?
People don't just watch TV anymore; they talk about it on Twitter. From the comfort of couches, they share reactions to touchdowns and nail-biting season finales - and advertisers and networks are taking note.
Twitter, a privately held company built on blurbs, has finally laid itself bare in documents that read more like a treatise than a tweet.
The personal fortune of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams probably will take up 10 characters once the online communications company goes public.
A bankrupt electronics retailer appears to have gotten caught up in the investor fervor for Twitter.
Twitter has unsealed the documents for its planned initial public offering of stock and says it hopes to raise up to $1 billion in one of the year's most eagerly awaited stock market debuts.
In wake of the U.S. government shutdown, the movie theater chain is giving away a small popcorn to employees out on furlough...
Domestic Icon Martha Stewart took to Twitter this week to voice her displeasure with the process of getting her shattered iPad - a gift from Steve Jobs - fixed.
The National Football league struck a deal to show game highlights and other video content on Twitter ahead of the short messaging service's initial public offering of stock.
Alerts are available from the American Red Cross, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal and local groups. If users sign up to receive Twitter alerts from one of these groups, they will get a text message notification whenever the group sends a tweet marked as an alert.
In Week 1, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick set the world on fire with his passing against the Green Packers, throwing for 421 yards and basically convincing everyone he's the greatest quarterback in NFL history. The last two weeks? Yeah not so much.
Twitter is so deeply ingrained in the cultural conversation that its initial public offering is likely to be a hot topic on its trend-setting service for the next few months. Its stock market debut is also likely to be the most scrutinized coming-out party since Facebook went public in May 2012 and promptly flopped.
Twitter finally has decided to go public, but it's taking a route that will keep most of the details about its business private for a while longer.
Twitter says it is buying MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising company, as it works to expand its advertising reach ahead of an expected initial public offering that could come as soon as this year.
Singer's provocative new video has set a new record for most views on Vevo in a 24-hour period following its debut on Monday...
The "Star Trek" star wed his longtime girlfriend, Sunny Ozell, in a wedding ceremony officiated by friend and "X-Men" co-star, Sir Ian McKellen...
Minors who post embarrassing photographs or information on social media websites would have a chance to remove it from public view under a bill sent Friday to Gov. Jerry Brown.
Chappelle was the closing act Thursday night at the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival...
Readers who tried to click on the New York Times' website got nothing but error messages for several hours Tuesday during the site's second major disruption this month, and people also had trouble accessing Twitter. A hacker group calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" claimed responsibility.
Social networking giant Facebook said government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 users of the service in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States.
Amazon's unit that runs Web servers for other companies including Instagram had problems Sunday. Instagram sent a tweet saying it was aware some users were having trouble loading Instagram and that was working on the problem.
Actor Patrick Dempsey and his business partner in the venture that acquired Tully's Coffee out of bankruptcy have dissolved their partnership...
An 18-year-old accused of killing a bicyclist with his car has had a vehicular manslaughter charge upgraded to murder in part because he boasted about speeding on Twitter, prosecutors said Thursday.
