Apr 15, 2013

  April 15th marks the 101st anniversary of the infamous Titanic ship sinking. And once again, Twitter account TitanicRealTime, celebrates the ships tragic voyage in its own unique way: live tweeting the accident using new age Twitter. Created a year ago by The History Press, the account’s ‘live’ tweets are posted as if by a first-hand witness of the...

Apr 2, 2013

It has been months since Twitter introduced tailored trends, which replaced the worldwide trends section be default on both desktop and mobile Twitter and presented instead a group of topics selected by an algorithm that still puzzles some. Good news is though; you can always go back to the comfortable old regional or worldwide trends. The tailored trends are...

Mar 14, 2013

            Guess what you can doView line breaks on Twitter webLet the fun begin. — Twitter (@twitter) March 13, 2013   Posting a multi-lined tweet used to be a trick, now it’s a Twitter feature. The network introduced the new option yesterday; now when you break for a new line while you’re composing a tweet, the message...

Feb 25, 2013

            Like every major TV event, viewers watching the anticipated Oscars last night expressed their wardrobe disappointments and winning cheers on the now default outlet for live comments and conversations, Twitter. Twitter reported receiving 8.9 million Tweets about the 85th Academy Awards from millions of artists and viewers...

Feb 3, 2013

            A quarter million Twitter accounts are the latest hacking victim after major grand networks have been subjected to the same faith in recent weeks; among them are attacks against NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, and the Haaretz Group’s email server. “This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us...

Jan 30, 2013

              While Egypt witnesses a wave of unrest, attacks are on the rise in several governorates including Cairo. One of the most recent attacks was on InterContinental Semiramis yesterday in Downtown Cairo. After failing to get the police’s help, the hotels’ staff turned to popular night-time satellite TV...