Twitter and Google reportedly strike deal to make tweets more discoverable in search

Twitter is reported to have struck a significant partnership with Google on the eve of its latest financial results. Bloomberg reports that the two companies have agreed to a deal to put real-time tweets from Twitter back into Google’s search results sometime “in the first half of this year.”

Twitter users can soon post 30-second videos, send group messages

As part of a tiered launch of new features on the social network, Twitter announced support for group messaging between 20 of your closest friends as well as a video recording function that’s built directly into the mobile application. Detailed within a post on the official Twitter blog, the new group messaging feature is now part of the direct

Twitter Adds Bing Translation Tool To Its Site And Mobile Apps

After toying with the feature for a couple of years, Twitter has officially added Bing Translator to its site, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and TweetDeck. Once users activate the tool in their account setting, they will see a little globe icon next to tweets in different languages. A translation appears below the original tweet once the globe is

Twitter Pushes Its Message-Any-Of-Your-Followers Feature With Annoying Promo Overlay

Twitter’s push to expand its appeal and bump up usage of existing features often sees the company tweak its layout or shuffle feature furniture around in A/B tests.

The latest bit of tweaking, currently appearing sporadically on a few

Saavn Partners With Twitter To Bring Tweet-Powered Radio To Its Streaming Service

India-focused music service Saavn is upping its social game after it partnered with Twitter to introduce a tweet-powered radio station for its users.

The company serves up “millions” of Indian music tracks and international hits, offering a Spotify-style choice of an ad-supported free version

Twitter Copies Instagram With New Adjustable Photo Filters

Over-filtering can obliterate the beauty of your photos or make them look cliché. So to give you more nuanced control, Twitter for iOS and Android today replaced its clumsy photo filter grid with a much simpler Instagram-style row of adjustable filters. Each filter can be double-tapped to reveal an intensity slider so you can lay that sepia effect on heavy or light to get the perfect hipster sheen.

Twitter first launched photo

How To Opt Out Of Twitter’s New Thing That Tracks Which Apps You Install

Twitter is now keeping track of which apps you have on your phone, and sending that data back to the mothership (birds nest?)

Is it the worst offense in the world? Nah — they’re not exactly perusing your browsing history and sending it to your grandmother, here. But it’s still irksome, particularly given that

Twitter Offers stores coupons on your credit card for in-store purchases

The tweets are talking and the tweets are offering. Today, Twitter announced a new feature, Twitter Offers, which allows users to select offers they see on their timeline through Twitter, and redeem the deals offline for cash back savings.

The inner workings of convenience usually reveal a complex network of services, and Twitter Offer is no

Now you can book boutique hotels on Twitter

Hotel booking services are sometimes able to negotiate better prices for mobile consumers. Now online hotel bidding company Stayful is featuring those prices with a new Twitter-based booking process.

The company launched a

Twitter’s new Audio Card feature lets you stream music as you explore your timeline

Twitter announced Thursday it’s partnered with Apple and SoundCloud to introduce a new Audio Card feature for iOS and Android that lets users listen to music tracks while they continue to explore their Twitter timeline.

The microblogging site is already used by many musicians and singers to

Another one out: Twitter news chief quits in latest executive departure

Twitter’s lost another executive. This time it’s Vivian Schiller, who said Wednesday she was leaving her post as head of news after less than a year in the position.

Schiller used her Twitter account to announce her departure across three tweets, saying the company’s VP of global media, Katie Stanton, could now

Twitter sues US government in bid to share more information on state surveillance

So upset is Twitter at the US government’s refusal to allow it to reveal the full extent of the state surveillance of its users that the San Francisco-based company has now taken the matter to court.

Although Twitter is currently able to include some surveillance details in its regular transparency reports, the company is keen to offer more