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Twitter fully drops Internet Explorer 11 Support
Twitter.com no longer works on Internet Explorer 11, it now detects User-Agent change to IE11 by browser extensions also and asks to disable them. If you now visit the Twitter homepage in Internet Explorer 11 or in Chrome or Firefox... More of this article »
After Instagram, Opera brings Twitter to Sidebar
The latest Opera beta update now allows users to access Twitter, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, VK, and Instagram without leaving the browser from the sidebar. By launching Opera Reborn in 2017, Opera Software introduced a... More of this article »
Twitter warns users not to update its Android App because of Crashing issue
The latest update for the Twitter App on Android is causing the app to crash. Twitter Support acknowledged the issue and suggested users not to update their App until the issue is resolved, if you’ve already updated and experienced... More of this article »
Here is how you can enable “Lights out Dark mode” for Twitter on Android
Yesterday Twitter has announced Android users can have lights out on Twitter if they have dark mode enabled, seems the “Lights out dark mode” feature is still rolling out and not yet available even if you’ve installed... More of this article »
Twitter brings a new smaller font size option, promises Timeline Scrolling Controls
The complaint most raised with New Twitter is the font size, users requested the company to offer the ability to view the text in small size, Twitter today announced a “smaller text size option” is now available in display... More of this article »
How to Hide Twitter’s “What’s happening”& “Who to Follow” Suggestions
Based on the people you follow and your location, Twitter shows former trends or Trending Topics and suggestions to you. These are personalized and tailored to you. Let us see how to hide or block “What’s happening”... More of this article »![Image for Make New Twitter to always show latest tweets first, not top tweets [Chrome Extension]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/switch-between-top-and-latest-tweets-twitter-home.png)
Make New Twitter to always show latest tweets first, not top tweets [Chrome Extension]
The Twitter website with the new design by default displays top tweets first, which may cause you to miss important tweets from your followers, though the site allows switching to latest tweets, it reverts to top tweets after a while,... More of this article »
This Extension makes new Twitter more Productive and less Annoying
It’s no longer possible to go back to old twitter design now, though you can achieve that by spoofing user agent or by accessing new twitter in Internet Explorer 11, the experience won’t be great, what we say is receive... More of this article »
Don’t like New Twitter.com? Here is how you can go back to the old design
It’s official! Twitter now rolling out a new experience for its service on Web and you’ll be switched to it by default, you can try the new look if available to you by clicking “Take a Look” option provided... More of this article »
Twitter desktop site Shows Highlights in Notifications
The Twitter highlights feature, available on Android and iOS apps, now shows up in Notifications on the Web version of the social site. For the uninitiated, Highlights feature shows “most interesting content from Twitter, tailored... More of this article »
How to Close a Twitter Account?
If you’ve created a Twitter account for your website for branding purposes and no longer maintaining that site and account on micro-blogging site, or joined Twitter for personal reasons and no longer using it, you better to close your... More of this article »
Change Twitter Favorite Heart Icon to Star in Chrome with this Extension
A week back on November 3rd, Twitter has changed favorite star icon to ‘heart’ saying the star was confusing to newcomers and Heart could be more expressive. You’re now seeing hearts on Twitter.com, do you want... More of this article »
How to Stop YouTube from Sharing Videos added to Playlist tweets on Twitter
Whenever you upload a video to YouTube and publish, if you’ve connected your Twitter account to your YouTube account, a tweet on behalf of you will be automatically shared on Twitter, that’s completely fine, but the following... More of this article »
Yahoo Mail now lets you Include your Latest Tweet in your Signature
This is cool! You can now add your last tweet from Twitter to your Yahoo Mail Signature. This Feature is not enabled by default. After turning the feature on, you can also delete the tweet while composing a message. How to add your... More of this article »
How to Disable or Stop Videos from Autoplaying on Twitter
Prevent Twitter from autoplaying the videos in your timeline. Across Twitter.com website and in your timeline, native videos, GIFs and vines will autoplay (though volume is muted by default, you’ll still find them quite annoying.... More of this article »
How to disable/hide Twitter’s Photo and Video Previews on Web
Twitter has recently enabled Media -Photo and video- previews for its apps on Android and Phone and also for Twitter.com website on the desktop. This means, previews of Photos and videos will be automatically shown in your timeline.... More of this article »
Twitter Now Lets you Receive Direct Messages from any follower, Will You Turn That Option On?
Twitter is rolling out the option that allows your followers to send private messages to you as well without you need to follow them back. Generally, you can able to direct message someone on Twitter only if he follows you, for follower... More of this article »
Are Your Twitter Links are Safe to Click? F-Secure’s Safe Twiit App Will Tell You
F-Secure has launched beta of Safe Twiit app for Twitter. Safe Twit scans user’s timeline, profile and mentions (after logging in) for malicious links for last 30 tweets and tells you they’re safe or not. Since Twitter offers... More of this article »
How to Enable or Disable Login Verification for your Twitter Account
Finally, by using its SMS service, Twitter now allows users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts which, when turned on, requires user to a enter special login code sent by Twitter to phone to logon to the site apart... More of this article »
Blocked By Me Shows All Users You’ve Blocked on Twitter
Want to know all Twitter users you’ve blocked? there is an app for that called Blocked By Me which also lets you unblock blocked users on Twitter. Twitter is a noisy place, that’s why most users block some in their timeline to... More of this article »
How to Share Tweets to Your Friends via Email from Twitter website
Twitter now allowing their users to email the tweets right from its website, so let us take a look at how to use this feature to share tweets with your friends or family members. Few days back Twitter announced in their blog that Twitter.com... More of this article »
Twitter lets you Email Tweets to anyone from its Website, Do You Use It?
If you want to share tweets that can be related to -news, photos or whatever -with people who are not on Twitter you can email tweets to them, soon you’ve this feature available for your Twitter account. Twitter today announced in... More of this article »
Twitter Warning:” We can’t show you everything! “ but Why?
Twitter has Media Policy which doesn’t allows you to upload sensitive content such as text/images with nudity, violence and medical procedure unless you specially select setting “mark my media as containing sensitive content”... More of this article »
Now You Can Embed Interactive Twitter Timelines On your Blog
Till now Twitter offered widget to embed any public timeline on your website, but the downside of these timelines is visitors on your site can’t interact with the tweets inside this box, today Twitter has launched new tools to make... More of this article »
Is Twitter not working For You in Opera? Try this Fix
Recently Month back, Opera has released Opera 12 with support for themes and Do Not Track feature, if you’re experiencing issues in Web Twitter on Opera such as tweeting, replying to tweets or in seeing the Trendy Topics let... More of this article »
Twitter is Tracking You for Tailored Suggestions, Here is how to Stop It
Till now AFAIK only Google and Facebook track us, by announcing “Tailored Suggestions” feature Twitter said that it also tracks it’s users, visits to websites via the follow buttons and badges will be recorded in Twitter’s... More of this article »
7 Rogue Twitter Applications You Should be Aware of
You should be careful before allowing third-party apps for access to your Twitter account, any twitter app can have the ability to send tweets on behalf of you once you grant it your account access, but they don’t know your... More of this article »
New Twitter Getting Started Guide
Its official now that “New Twitter” is available to all users over the world, you may get surprised with new Twitter homepage that greets you when you visit Twitter.com in your browser, when you sign-in- there are more shocks,... More of this article »
HTTPS Now Turned On By Default in Twitter for All Signed- in Users
Back in March 2011, much like to Facebook Twitter added option to always use Twitter.com on web with HTTPS, it’s not enabled by default user need to enable it from their account settings, today Twitter announced that they’re turning... More of this article »
Bring New Twitter Timeline from Right to Left of the Screen
Though Twitter rolled out its redesigned version for web and mobile versions in Dec 2011, still web version not enabled for lot of users, yesterday my twitter handle got the new Twitter, since then I‘ve been looking for ways to move... More of this article »
Download Firefox with Twitter
Mozilla in partnership with Microsoft released Firefox with Bing, that’s for Microsoft search engine lovers something like that where Twitter users cheer yep! Firefox with Twitter also available for Tweeters where users can search... More of this article »
Echofon for Windows, A Twitter Desktop Client
We’re not covering posts on Twitter tips and apps, but we’ve covered a few in the past, there are many Twitter clients for browsers as well Windows available on internet, Echofon much popular Twitter app available for iPhone... More of this article »
How to Access Your Twitter and Facebook Updates on Google+
Finally Google has successful social network, Google+ (isn’t it ?) still a long way to go as it is still in Beta. Google Plus can give some tough competition to Twitter and Facebook if you’re addicted to Google+ and don’t want... More of this article »
That Can Be My Next Tweet!
Recently I haven’t covered much posts on Twitter and Twitter Apps , here is a twitter app that reads your twitter stream, based on the stream it predicts and generates a tweet of random string of words which possibly is your next... More of this article »
WOT Beta Version Now shows Its Reputation Icons for Links on Twitter and Facebook Too
All the browsers installed in my Computer have WOT extension installed which allows to surf the web with confidence, those green reputation icons always make me/any user feel safe. Till now WOT doesn’t show its reputation icons for... More of this article »
How to Stop Getting Paper.li @Mentions of You on Twitter
Whenever any user’s daily is out, a tweet sent on behalf of them automatically on Twitter from paper.li to something like “User’s Daily is out, Top stories today via @x @y @z”. But sometimes it is annoying to get your tweets... More of this article »
How to Auto Refresh Twitter Site for New Tweets
If you spent more time on Twitter, one of the annoying thing any user come across is Twitter’s lack of auto-refresh of tweets in the timeline, you’ve to keep clicking or refresh the page whenever new tweets are posted. Go productive,... More of this article »
Twuora Crunch for Chrome = Quora +Twitter + CrunchBase, A Toolbar for Quora
We’ve covered about Quorafox, a Firefox add-on allows to check unread messages and current number of notifications for your Quora account, Twuora Crunch is a Google Chrome extension and is more of a Quora toolbar allows to search... More of this article »![Image for How to Disable Retweets of a Particular User In Your Timeline [Updated]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Turn-off-retweets-of-a-user.png)
How to Disable Retweets of a Particular User In Your Timeline [Updated]
If you are following a user on twitter interested in his updates, not for the retweets he shares, then you can disable or turn off that user’s retweets from appearing in your timeline without the need to unfollow that user, here... More of this article »
Tweetbookr : Access Twitter, Facebook and Flickr Accounts from Your Desktop
Tweetbookr is Adobe AIR based application allows to connect to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr accounts directly from your desktop. With Tweetbookr you no longer need to trawl through three different social sites such as Facebook, Twitter... More of this article »
Tweriod : Tells the Best Time to Post your Tweets
Bloggers use Twitter as medium to share posts to their followers and if they are useful your tweet will retweets and spreads on twitter but all this happen if your followers are active while you are tweeting, otherwise your tweets... More of this article »
Twitter for Mac
As Mac App Store launched today Twitter for Mac, desktop app has been launched by Twitter for Mac Computers. Twitter for Mac allows users to stay connected to their followers and friends on Twitter as tweets appear in real-time using... More of this article »
TweetLevel : Tells Your Influence Score on Twitter
Do you want to know how much influential are you on Twitter? TweetLevel twitter app will tell you depending on how many users following you, how much active your are on twitter, whether your tweets are interesting and trust worthy, ... More of this article »
Share Files on Twitter with TwileShare
TwileShare is new online service that lets you upload and share files like images, PDFs, Word and Excel on twitter up to 10MB in size. Your followers can able to see PDFs, Word and Excel files with Scribd viewer. Files Uploaded users... More of this article »
Faveous : Aggregates All Your Favorites from Twitter, Google Reader,YouTube and Facebook in One Place
Are you in difficult to find your favorited items on Twitter, Google Reader, don’t worry Faveous which is in Beta collects all your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader, (and soon YouTube and Facebook “likes on links” ) in... More of this article »
ListNotify : Get notified When you’re added to A Twitter List
List a feature in Twitter allows people to organize users they follow into groups or lists, List is productive and useful feature allows to read a user’s tweets but he doesn’t need to follow that user. We’ve covered getting... More of this article »![Image for A Username and Password are being requested by http://twitter.com The site says “Twitter API” [Fix]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Twitter-API-requests-to-enter-username-and-password_thumb.png)
A Username and Password are being requested by http://twitter.com The site says “Twitter API” [Fix]
Even though you logged into web twitter with your username and password, sometimes annoying pop-up box comes up and asks you to enter your twitter account’s username and password, sometimes even clicking “Cancel” won’t take... More of this article »
Phase out of “Older Version” of Twitter Nearing
Since New Twitter is available to all users worldwide we’ve covered its shortcuts also, and twitter kind enough and gave the option to use old twitter for some time till the Preview of New Twitter is over, well if you are switched... More of this article »