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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Twitters year in review highlights top tweets and trends of 2013
Just as it does every year, Twitter has unveiled the top tweets of 2013, highlighting the years trends on the bite-sized social network.
Twitter began the "Year on Twitter" trend in 2010, and since then its format has gotten snazzier and snazzier.
This years categories are less vague than 2012s, with top 2013 tweets divided into news, entertainment, sports and "showcase," a publishing partner-picked selection of the best tweets of the year.
But the best category is undoubtedly the one that simply reads "#2013," as it highlights the major events of the last year month-by-month - in tweet form, of course.
Twitters 2013 year in review features hundreds of tweets covering everything from Jon Stewarts jabs at Microsoft to humble brags from Nascar super stars.
The sports section is divided by sport, and the news section by category. Politics and big science stories are all covered, as well as "human interest" tweets like a marriage proposal and a lost dog returned home.
The entertainment category is divided into music, TV, movies, and pop culture. No video games or tech? Even with the launch of the Xbox One and PS4?
At least theres plenty of Breaking Bad love in there.
Its fun to go through the #2013 category and check out the years events month by month. What was your favorite thing that happened this year? Chances are its in there, from #SFBatkid to the NHL Stanley Cup.
The Golden Tweets section features the most re-tweeted messages of the year, and its full of heavy hitters as well, including celebrity deaths like Cory Monteith and Paul Walker.
The tweets in this section garnered hundreds of thousands of re-tweets each.
"This years most-retweeted Tweets showed the world coming together to share in loss, love, and celebration," Twitter wrote in the review.
Theres plenty to explore in Twitter 2013 showcase, but dont lose too much time combing through the past - the years not over yet, and youve probably got work to do still.
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Twitter began the "Year on Twitter" trend in 2010, and since then its format has gotten snazzier and snazzier.
This years categories are less vague than 2012s, with top 2013 tweets divided into news, entertainment, sports and "showcase," a publishing partner-picked selection of the best tweets of the year.
But the best category is undoubtedly the one that simply reads "#2013," as it highlights the major events of the last year month-by-month - in tweet form, of course.
Tweet tweet
Twitters 2013 year in review features hundreds of tweets covering everything from Jon Stewarts jabs at Microsoft to humble brags from Nascar super stars.
The sports section is divided by sport, and the news section by category. Politics and big science stories are all covered, as well as "human interest" tweets like a marriage proposal and a lost dog returned home.
The entertainment category is divided into music, TV, movies, and pop culture. No video games or tech? Even with the launch of the Xbox One and PS4?
At least theres plenty of Breaking Bad love in there.
Golden tweets
Its fun to go through the #2013 category and check out the years events month by month. What was your favorite thing that happened this year? Chances are its in there, from #SFBatkid to the NHL Stanley Cup.
The Golden Tweets section features the most re-tweeted messages of the year, and its full of heavy hitters as well, including celebrity deaths like Cory Monteith and Paul Walker.
The tweets in this section garnered hundreds of thousands of re-tweets each.
"This years most-retweeted Tweets showed the world coming together to share in loss, love, and celebration," Twitter wrote in the review.
Theres plenty to explore in Twitter 2013 showcase, but dont lose too much time combing through the past - the years not over yet, and youve probably got work to do still.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Twitters Vine video app arrives on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets
Twitters Vine video app has graduated to a new platform this weekend and is now available to download from the Amazon app store for Kindle Fire tablets.
The app, which allows users to create and upload short, 6-second video clips, had only been available on Apples iPhone or Android smartphones.
Vines arrival on Kindle Fire is the first time the app has been optimised specifically for a tablet device.
The decision to launch on the Kindle Fire is somewhat surprising considering the questionable quality of the devices front-facing camera and the lack of any rear-facing camera.
Theres also no Vine app for Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 at this time.
Vines expansion comes following new competition from Facebook-owned Instagram, which rolled out its own short video feature earlier this month.
Reports this week had suggested uploads to Vine had taken a hit as a result of Instagrams encroachment on its reason for being.
To combat the new rival, Twitter updated the Vine Android app earlier this week to include support for the front-facing camera, bringing it in line with the iOS app.
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The app, which allows users to create and upload short, 6-second video clips, had only been available on Apples iPhone or Android smartphones.
Vines arrival on Kindle Fire is the first time the app has been optimised specifically for a tablet device.
The decision to launch on the Kindle Fire is somewhat surprising considering the questionable quality of the devices front-facing camera and the lack of any rear-facing camera.
Theres also no Vine app for Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 at this time.
Instagram attacks
Vines expansion comes following new competition from Facebook-owned Instagram, which rolled out its own short video feature earlier this month.
Reports this week had suggested uploads to Vine had taken a hit as a result of Instagrams encroachment on its reason for being.
To combat the new rival, Twitter updated the Vine Android app earlier this week to include support for the front-facing camera, bringing it in line with the iOS app.
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