Twitter is Adding "Suggestions for You" and "Recommendations" Features

Just heads up, Twitter has published a new blog post saying it begins to roll out a new feature "Suggestions for You", This new feature suggests people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting or known as "Recommended Users". You will be able to see "Suggestions for You" field under "Find People", it's not appearing for normal users now, Only for Developers!

With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests. The trouble is finding all of them. Today we're beginning to roll out a simple, but powerful new feature to help address that -- "Suggestions for You". The algorithms in this feature, built by our user relevance team, suggest people you don’t currently follow that you may find interesting. The suggestions are based on several factors, including people you follow and the people they follow. You'll see these suggestions on Twitter.com and the Find People section. If you like a suggestion, click "follow"; if you don't, click "hide," and we’ll try not to suggest that user again.

Oh Another Great Feature "Recommendations", this features allows you to see similar users when you view another users, this recommendations should be similar to the user you access his account.

In addition, you will begin to see recommendations for similar users when you view another account’s profile. If you’re interested in a particular user, you might be interested in these other accounts as well.

This Features will be available Soon, So Stay Tuned!
Update 1: Features Started to Work for me! What about you?

Categories: Twitter, Twitter Features, Twitter News

Twitter to bring Photos and Videos in Stream

I know that's surprising most of us, But as I thought, Twitter is going to add Photos and Videos to be shown in the Stream, You will be able to see Photos and Videos in your Twitter timeline the same as Facebook but much easier and faster!

This was found in a description of a new features called "Twitter Media" as shown above:
By default, you’ll only see images and videos shared by people you’re following, and reveal those by people you’re not. Check this box to see media from everyone on Twitter.
[via Mashable]
Update 1: From Twitter:

We’re constantly exploring features and settings. What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps.

Categories: Twitter, Twitter News

Fake Email sent from Twitter, Delete it Right now!

Hey, if you got an Email on your account from Twitter, don't think to open, and never think to click on the link inside it, It's just a big fake. Twitter Safety account has just tweeted that an Email will be sent telling you that your account will be deleted unless you click on the link, This is FAKE.

Here's the tweet:

Heads-up: if you receive an email saying that your account will be deleted unless you click on a link, it's not from us.

Categories: Twitter, Twitter Fakes, Twitter News

Twitter has Launched @EarlyBird, Get Ready to advertise

I already talked you about @EarlyBird account which was another big advertising system, It's a big revenue source for Twitter, Through EarlyBird, Twitter help advertisers to advertise on it by tweeting for people who following EarlyBir. Twitter has just announced that EarlyBird is ready for Work!

Here's a part of the Release from Twitter:

What is @earlybird?
Twitter @earlybird Exclusive Offers are special time-bound deals, sneak-peeks, and events that are promoted by the official Twitter @earlybird account. We partner with select advertisers and retweet offers that they have crafted only for the Twitter community. Our advertising partners determine the terms of the offer, including availability, amount, and price. As with other forms of advertising from Twitter, we are focused on bringing value to our users and will keep your interests in mind as we develop this program.

You can continue knowing more about This @EarlyBird by keep reading the release from Twitter, posted here.

If you read it, you will find that it's all about advertising deals, Just get ready for the advertising if you want! go and follow @EarlyBird on twitter and Stay tuned for more news about this Bird.

Categories: EarlyBird, Twitter, Twitter News

@EarlyBird, yet another advertising revenue source for Twitter!

Yes, Twitter has created their new account on Twitter "@EarlyBird", this account is another advertising revenue source for twitter, Twitter will be Publishing Shopping Deals Through @EarlyBird Account. Imagine how much Twitter will get from this account!

ReadWriteWeb has successfully emailed Carolyn Penner about @EarlyBird and he answered the following:

There are interesting things in store for @earlybird. Keep waking up early and you might be the first to find out what they are.

So you can also be the first (may be me) by sending a request to follow @EarlyBird on Twitter. Stay tuned for more news about this Early Bird!

Categories: EarlyBird, Twitter, Twitter News

Twitter for iPhone brings support for iOS 4 [Includes Multitasking]

Twitter for iPhone has just updated to brings support for iOS 4 and the newly released iPhone 4 which arrived early today, and Yes Twitter brings Multitasking feature for the newly released iOS 4. Check the official change log bellow..

What’s New in Version 3.0.1
- OAuth update
- Stuck top tweets fix

As you see in the change log above there's no support for Multitasking but I confirm that I already tried it and it's working with Multitasking. Multitasking is already enable on iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3G but for iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G can enable it by Redsn0w using the step by step guide posted here.

Download Twitter for iPhone 3.0.1 [iTunes link]

Categories: App Store, Apple, iOS 4, iPhone, iPhone 4G, iPhone Apps, Twitter, Twitter News

Twitter will no longer count against the 140 character limit!

Yes you read it right! Twitter has just published a post on their blog, It announced that they will be using its official link shortening service t.co to wrap all links shared on Twitter. Starting this Summer, When you post a link in your post, Twitter client will wrap your link to t.co/******

Image via Mashable

This Feature is useful for both users and twitter itself. As this will help users to post long links without need to shorten it, It will help Twitter in it's Analytics, Also it will help users to traceback their links easily.

Summary of Twitter Blog Post:
Twitter web Client will not be counting t.co links in your tweet, but I'm not sure if this feature applied only for the first link in your tweet or unlimited links. Stay Updated till We Know!

Categories: T.CO, Twitter, Twitter News

Twitter is Testing a new Feature "You both Follow"

If you are a Facebook user, You may know that when you enter a Profile of your Friend you can see "Mutual Friends" Feature at the Left, Now Twitter is adding Something like that but it Still Under Test. Today Nick Kallen a Twitter Engineer has posted a tweet saying that they are testing a new Feature "You Both Follow" and it's only available for 10% of people.

We're testing the "You both follow" feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it for now.

This feature is providing you information about the Common people between you and the person you are following and this will be useful, Also Marcel Molina tweeted that he had formed a new team with @nk to build rapid prototypes. This Indicates that they are going to release more and more features. [via Techcrunch]

Categories: Twitter, Twitter News

Twitter Bans All Third Party Ad Platforms - They Really Do

Yes, Twitter has just announced that they will ban all Third Party Twitter Platforms, This means the end of Ad.ly and the just launched Tweetup. They Says:

We will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API.

You have to keep updated with us with news about this topic, the significant part of Twitter’s post is below:

As our primary concern is the long-term health and value of the network, we have and will continue to forgo near-term revenue opportunities in the service of carefully metering the impact of Promoted Tweets on the user experience. It is critical that the core experience of real-time introductions and information is protected for the user and with an eye toward long-term success for all advertisers, users and the Twitter ecosystem. For this reason, aside from Promoted Tweets, we will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. We are updating our Terms of Service to articulate clearly what we mean by this statement, and we encourage you to read the updated API Terms of Service to be released shortly.
Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market share or short-term revenue at the expense of the long-term health of the Twitter platform. For example, a third party ad network may seek to maximize ad impressions and click through rates even if it leads to a net decrease in Twitter use due to user dissatisfaction.
Secondly, the basis for building a lasting advertising network that benefits users should be innovation, not near-term monetization. Twitter is uniquely dependent on and responsible for the long-term health and value of the platform. Accordingly, a necessary focus of Promoted Tweets is to explore ways to create value for our users. Third party ad networks may be optimized for near-term monetization at the expense of innovating or creating the best user experience. We believe it is our responsibility to encourage creative product development and to curb practices that compromise innovation.

Update 1: The company notes three guiding principles:

• We don’t seek to control what users tweet. And users own their own tweets.
• We believe there are opportunities to sell ads, build vertical applications, provide breakthrough analytics, and more. Companies are selling real-time display ads or other kinds of mobile ads around the timelines on many Twitter clients, and we derive no explicit value from those ads. That’s fine. We imagine there will be all sorts of other third-party monetization engines that crop up in the vicinity of the timeline.
• We don’t believe we always need to participate in the myriad ways in which other companies monetize the network.

Update 2: Here is the relevant part in the updated T&C:

IV. COMMERCIAL USE

It is our goal to provide you, our ecosystem partner, with a policy that is clear and transparent about what you can do to monetize your Service. This is best summed up in two principles:

respect user content — Tweets may be used in advertisements, not as advertisements.
respect user experience — build your service around the timeline, not in the timeline.

And now, for the details:

1. Twitter Ads.

Twitter reserves the right to serve advertising via its APIs (“Twitter Ads”). If you decide to serve Twitter Ads once we start delivering them, we will share a portion of advertising revenue with you per our then-current terms and conditions.

2. Advertising Around Twitter Content

(a) We encourage you to create advertising opportunities around Twitter content that are compliant with these Rules. In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing). For example, you may sell sponsorships or branding around gadgets or iframes that include Tweets and other customized visualizations of Twitter. Please contact us for questions and information at twitter_ads@twitter.com, or to notify us of an advertising opportunity.

(b) You may generally advertise around and on applications or sites that display Tweets, but you may not place any advertisements within the Twitter timeline on your Service other than Twitter Ads.

(c) Your advertisements cannot resemble or reasonably be confused by users as a Tweet.

(d) You may advertise in close proximity to the Twitter timeline (e.g., banner ads above or below timeline), but there must be a clear separation between Twitter content and your advertisements.

3. Using Twitter Content. You must get permission from the user that created the Tweet if You:

o want to use their Tweet on a commercial durable good or product (for example, using a Tweet on a t-shirt or a poster or making a book based on someone’s Tweets); or

o create an advertisement that implies the sponsorship or endorsement on behalf of the user.

Categories: Twitter, Twitter News