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After a hiatus, the ‘Fail Whale’ was sighted today. Yup, micro-blog Twitter went down early Tuesday for many users around the world. Clearly the problem is serious since access to Twitter began failing over the Web, mobile & even its API from 8:20am GMT. In the next couple of hours, much of service had resumed but remained sporadic.
Reports: BBC News, Phys.org, Computerworld, NBC Bay Area, Radio Times
Tweet about gaming. That’s right. Twitter has just launched the handle @TwitterGaming, a new way to start or follow conversations around Online gaming. While there are thousands of tweets daily around gaming, this is Twitter’s consolidated effort to attract this community, & thus generate more users.
Reports: PCGamer, VG247, Digital Trends
Launched in the US in Oct this year, Twitter’s ‘Moments’ feature has now come to the UK.
Reports: Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web
A recent move by Microblog Twitter has started earning it brickbats from the Online world. Sometime in Oct, it had announced that it would be pulling out the “Twitter Share” count from its newly-released ‘Tweet’ buttons. But as the reports show below, that seems to have raised the hackles of many Online.
Reports: Marketing Land, Search Engine Watch, Webdesigner Depot
It’s gone. A feature that was around since 2006 with Twitter has been replaced. The ‘favorites’ & ‘stars’ have been replaced with ‘likes’ & ‘hearts’.
Twitter has launched Brand Hub, a product that tracks your share of conversation across all advertising channels. Brand Hub is now available to select large brand advertisers & medium-sized businesses in English-speaking countries.
Reports: VentureBeat, WebProNews, digitalera.net