Twitter CEO and founder gives a third of his stock to employees
“I’d rather have a smaller part of something big than a bigger part of something small.” That’s how Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted about his decision to channel a huge chunk of his own stake in the social network back to the employee stock compensation pool. This would then be available for grants and help ameliorate some of the damage done when the company laid off a chunk of the team just last week. Oh yes, and Twitter plans to announce its quarterly earnings next week.
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Source: Twitter (@Jack), NYT (Bits)
Elon Musk responds to Consumer Reports’ Tesla Model S downgrade
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is good at looking on the bright side of things, from space travel to clean energy and even people getting fired. After Consumer Reports revoked its “recommended” rating for the Tesla Model S this week, noting a “worse-than-average overall problem rate,” Musk went on the optimistic offensive in a few tweets. Musk noted that the Consumer Reports reliability survey included “a lot of early production cars” with issues that have been fixed in newer models. He added, “97 of owners expect their next car to be a Tesla (the acid test).”
Source: @elonmusk
How Twitter helped make the ‘Archer’ pinball game a reality
Pinball FX creator Zen Studios released a bundle this week featuring tables from Archer, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and American Dad. The pack, called Balls of Glory, is available now across PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows 10, Steam, Android and iOS (whew). And all of this exists because of a tweet, as Zen Studios VP of Publishing Mel Kirk explains.
Twitter introduces Polls, making it easier to vote on anything
You are at a decent restaurant in town and you cannot decide whether to get the steak or the schnitzel. That’s okay, just give your Twitter followers the vote. The social networking site is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to set up two-choice polls on Android and other devices.
Coming soon! We’re rolling out the ability for everyone to create polls on Twitter: https://t.co/pH5a8q9Ujz pic.twitter.com/ijAKEMUdf1
— Twitter (@twitter) October 21, 2015
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
While using Twitter for voting and polling is not new, the Polls ability will become the easiest way of gauging public opinion. The feature is accessible from the tweet compose box, where the tweeter can ask anything then give two different options underneath the tweet. The poll is then active for 24 hours, where anyone can vote on any poll however whatever you choose will not be shared publicly.
Twitter has started rolling out the Polls feature on Android, iOS and the desktop, which should be available for everyone over the coming days.
Now if you excuse me, I am just about to order some steak, the runaway winner of my little poll.
Source: Twitter Blogs
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Get your followers opinion with Twitter Polls
Twitter has been busy adding new features over the last few months. Just recently, they added the ability to send donations to your favorite presidential candidate and now they are adding polls.
Rolling out over the next few days, you will be able to create a poll to ask your followers virtually anything you like. For example, you could create a poll asking if your followers like pizza or hamburgers? This new feature is coming to iOS, Android, and their website. Right now, at least, it is limited to only two-poll questions. All the polls are secret until the full 24hr wait period is over, then the results are viewable. Twitter will then send you a notification with the results of the polls you participated in.
Source: Twitter
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Xcerpt for Twitter lets you share beautiful article snippets with ease
If you’re a frequent Twitter user on Android and would like to make the articles you share a little bit more eye-catching, you should download Xcerpt for Twitter. Similar to the iOS-exclusive app OneShot, Xcerpt for Twitter lets you easily share an image of a web page to attach to your tweets, making it much easier to include more content in the 140-character limit.
Here’s how it works: if you see an excerpt of a webpage you’d like to share on Twitter, either take a screenshot or highlight the text and copy it to your clipboard. Head over to Xcerpt, and you can choose to either paste the text or select a screenshot. From there, you can change from a number of different background colors and even highlight the most important part of the passage, which can be quite handy in some situations.
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margin: auto;
#gallery-1 .gallery-item
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
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border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
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margin-left: 0;
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One of the coolest parts of the app is that it will automatically detect the source from which you took the excerpt and add it in automatically. Once you’re done customizing your excerpt, you can add a comment and share it right to Twitter. Oftentimes it can be difficult to share your true thoughts on Twitter when article headlines take up some of your characters, which is where Xcerpt for Twitter comes in. It’s a simple application that works extremely well, and will absolutely make sharing articles to Twitter much more effective.
Xcerpt for Twitter doesn’t feature any advertisements. You can download it now from the Play Store for free.
Twitter makes it easier for anyone to curate and post tweet collections
When Twitter launched Moments, it talked briefly about its launch partners and how eventually anyone would be able to build their own moments. Until that happens, Twitter is launching an ecosystem using the same tools used by Moments to help publishers, developers and really anyone who’s wanted to put together a collection of tweets for a post. Using Tweetdeck or the newly launched Curator tool, people can find tweets they would like to build into a story. The Curator tool also includes 20 different filters to help find relevant tweets and put those updates in whatever order you want. Then you can drop the URL or collection ID of your tweet compilation into publish.twitter.com for an embed code. Drop that code into any site and you’re good to go.
Twitter has also introduced a grid layout (see below) for image and video-heavy stories. These compilations are are also editable on the fly. If you build a collection and realize you need to add or remove a tweet, the ecosystem dynamically refreshes all the instances of the story no matter where you’ve put it.
But, Twitter’s not the only company with a new curation toolset, it’s also partnered with Spredfast, DataMinr, ScribbleLive, Wayin, and Flowics to help them build out their own versions of the feature. Plus if you start work in one tool, you can switch to another and continue building an embeddable collection.
“We think that this workflow could be used by a lot of different people, developers included. Tweets are great content,” Michael Ducker, one of Twitter’s head of product told Engadget. To that end, the ecosystem also works with apps via the new Collections API for developers. So expect more timelines in apps that look similar to the layout found in the official apps.
Source: Twitter
Polls headed to a Twitter near you
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Twitter has announced this morning that they will be launching the ability for users to create and tweet polls. The ability isn’t out just yet, but the birdie company says it will be live in the “coming day”. Previously users who wanted to do a poll through the short message social media outlet they need to track replies, tally hashtags, count retweets or favorite a tweet. None of which made polling friends, family or end users very easy. When the update goes live users will be able to create a two-answer poll right from the tweet box.
Created polls will remain active for 24 hours and all replies will remain anonymous allowing you to cast your vote without backlash from the public.
Polls are always a good way to get engage people when your poll is engaging to begin with. When Google launched polls to G+ many had hoped it would be amazing and give users a better way to gauge thoughts on ideas and more. Of course, like all things, many spend their polling time creating useless polls and posting them in controversial sections. For instance, posting “Is the iPhone 6s Plus better than the Nexus 6p” inside the Nexus 6p community. Some people just like the drama I suppose.
When the ability to create polls goes live you will see an icon that looks like a pie chart. Fill in the two choice answers you want users to pick and tweet away. On the receiving end, be prepared to see polls landing in your feeds about everything under sun. It is always your choice to vote or not.
Source: Twitter
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Twitter to finally update OS X app later this year
While the iOS and Android apps have gotten regular updates, the OS X app has languished. Twitter has shown the app very little love in the past few years. But, today at the company’s Flight developer conference, Jeff Seibert, Twitter’s developer platform lead announced that the app would be getting an update and would be available before the end of the year. It’ll have native GIF and Vine playback and a dark mode. Hopefully that dark mode will make its way to the Android and iOS apps.
Twitter Rolling Out New Feature to Let Users Create Customized Polls
Twitter announced today that a feature it has tested with a few users on a small scale — the ability to add customized polls to a tweet — will officially be coming to everyone over the next few days. The company hopes that the new add-on will further expand its users’ interaction with their followers, by streamlining a function that would have previously taken extensive measures of reading replies and re-tweets to successfully follow.
If you want the public’s opinion on anything — what to name your dog, who will win tonight’s game, which election issue people care most about — there’s no better place to get answers than on Twitter. For poll creators, it’s a new way to engage with Twitter’s massive audience and understand exactly what people think. For those participating, it’s a very easy way to make your voice heard.
Twitter users will be able to create a poll from the compose box of the Twitter desktop site or in any of the company’s official mobile apps. Unfortunately, the feature won’t be available in third-party Twitter apps, so those using clients like Tweetbot won’t be able to see the polls or vote on them. Each poll will remain live for twenty-four hours from the time it is posted, and the company ensures that your name is kept anonymous from both the poster and the public when voting on other polls.
Coming soon! We're rolling out the ability for everyone to create polls on Twitter: https://t.co/pH5a8q9Ujz pic.twitter.com/ijAKEMUdf1
— Twitter (@twitter) October 21, 2015
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThe company promises that polls will be available “over the next few days,” and users should simply keep an eye out for the circular pie graph poll icon in their compose box to know when they can begin using the feature. The introduction of polls follows the launch of “Moments” earlier in the month, which gave users of the social network a simplified discovery tool to follow the news and accounts they care about.
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