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Facebook, Google, Twitter Deliberately Fail to Tackle Terrorism: British Panel

September 2, 2016 SrijitaBritish, Deliberately, Facebook, Fail, Google, Panel, Tackle, Terrorism:, to, Twitter

In the first-ever widespread criticism of US technology giants and social media platforms, the British Home Affairs select committee has slammed the internet behemoths of becoming a “recruiting platform for terrorism” and “passing the buck”. Led by Keith Vaz, the British parliament’s longest-serving Indian-origin MP, the panel rapped Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube, saying the companies were deliberately failing to stop terrorists from using their platforms to promote their sinister agenda, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. “Huge corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter, with their billion-dollar incomes, are consciously failing…

Twitter to Share Ad Revenue on Videos by US Users

September 2, 2016 SrijitaAd, by, On, Revenue, Share, to, Twitter, US, Users;, videos

Twitter Inc on Tuesday stepped up its battle to attract video talent to its platform, saying it will allow US users who upload a video to share in any advertising revenue it generates. Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube are all competing to keep or recruit top video talent as they seek to cash in on the wave of televison-style advertising that has been moving to the internet. Twitter already offers revenue sharing to media and entertainment companies such as CBS Corp and the National Football League which post videos…

Twitter Appoints New Global Media Team Head

July 18, 2016 SrijitaAppoints, Global, Head, Media, New, Team, Twitter

Micro-blogging website Twitter has tapped long-time executive Ross Hoffman as the company’s new vice president of global media – in the third appointment to that role in the last six months. Hoffman, who was most recently senior director of brand strategy and has been at the company in various roles since 2010, is taking over the media team from Nathan Hubbard, who late last month announced he was leaving the company, a report on technology website Re/code said on Thursday. Twitter confirmed the move to the publication, with a spokesperson…

Twitter Revamps Android App to comply with fabric layout guidelines

June 9, 2016 SrijitaAndroid, App, comply, fabric, guidelines, layout, Revamps, to, Twitter, With

Micro-running a blog website Twitter is rolling out a redesigned Android app based totally on Google’s fabric layout philosophy. The fabric design uses grid-primarily based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and intensity outcomes together with lights and shadows. The app is now split into four tabs – domestic, Moments, Notifications, and Messages – that you could flow among via tapping the icons on the top of the screen, or the use of a horizontal swipe. there may be also a floating action bar to compose new tweets. Dragging across…

Twitter Testing Completely Revamped Android App in Beta

April 16, 2016 SrijitaAndroid, App, Beta, Completely, In, Revamped, Testing, Twitter

Micro-blogging website Twitter is testing a new design for an Android app version to make it more user-friendly and easy to navigate. Several people using Twitter’s alpha and beta apps have begun seeing a design that places Twitter’sfour core areas main feed, Moments, notifications, and direct messages as large tabs across the top of the screen, The Verge reported on Wednesday. The new design is letting the users toggle between them either by tapping on the tab or by swiping side to side, making it much easier to navigate and…