You can now tweet money to friends, if you live in France
Starting tomorrow, any French resident with a bank account and Twitter handle will be able to transfer money simply by tweeting it. The new service, dubbed S-money, was launched last month by French mega-bank BPCE and Twitter. It differs from Twitter’s Buy Now, which lets users to pay for goods at companies like Home Depot and Burberry using an embedded “Pay” button. Instead, S-money is aimed at person-to-person transactions, letting you send money to friends without needing their banking details. Details are scarce on exactly how it works, but a BPCE spokesman said it’s “perfectly adapted to the Twitter experience.” By the way, my own Twitter handle is @stevetdent. #kerching
Filed under: Software
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UK release date for the Galaxy Note 4 delayed
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 was originally announced to be released on October 10, 2014 in a number of global markets, including the United Kingdom. However, a few days before the devices’ expected arrival, Samsung Mobile UK replied to a Twitter user that the UK release was being delayed until October 17th, coinciding with the Galaxy Note 4 US release. The company indicated that the change was due to “amazing interest and demand.”
On October 10, that information was confirmed on Samsung Mobile UK’s own twitter feed. The so called “amazing interest and demand” may be the result of Samsung moving the release date forward in Korea and other markets, allegedly to compete with Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. If current sales figures are being used as a projection, Samsung might think that gaining an extra production week now will help to meet a higher than originally predicted demand in two of its largest markets.
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Ryanair now lets you tweet it for real-time flight updates
When budget airline Ryanair finally launched its first Twitter account, many users wondered if they’ve finally have an official way to vent their frustrations via social media. Although the company does use @Ryanair to improve customer service, it only serves as a way to update followers, not to interact with them. However, following today’s launch of @RyanairFlights, Ryanair has started to engage a little bit more, but only with customers who are interested in receiving real-time flight updates. The automated service asks you to follow the new account and then send it the flight number you want updates for (eg FR102). Ryanair then gets back to you with the status of that particular flight, providing scheduled departure and arrival times, and news of whether it landed early or not. Luckily, you don’t have to endure that perky ‘on time’ jingle if it does.
Filed under: Transportation, Internet
Via: Ryanair
Source: @RyanairFlights
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Twitter’s head of news leaves after just a year in the job
Though Twitter is now a huge part of the news cycle, it’s still figuring out how to handle it internally. Vivian Schiller has just stepped down as the head of news there, almost exactly a year after she took the gig. Having worked at NBC, the New York Times and CNN, Schiller was brought on to help the social network foster ties with major news outlets. She announced her resignation in (of course) a series of tweets, and Twitter broke the news to its employees in a memo obtained by Re/Code. The document was full of praise for Schiller, citing numerous new media partnerships and Dataminr integration under her stewardship. It also revealed that the resignation came about after Twitter merged its news, government and election teams. The newly formed division will now be led by Elections and Government head Adam Sharp.
1/3 Stepping down from Twitter so new global media lead @katies can reorganize as she sees fit. Wish everyone at twitter nothing but best.
– Vivian Schiller (@vivian) October 8, 2014
Filed under: Software
Source: Reuters, Vivian Schiller (Twitter)
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Twitter sues US government over Transparency Report restrictions
Twitter has been publishing what bits of info it’s allowed to concerning national security requests for some time now, but the social media feed wants the ability to publish the whole thing. Today, the outfit filed a lawsuit aiming to get approval to post its entire transparency report. In a blog post, VP of Legal Ben Lee says that the company is asking a California District Court “to declare these restrictions on our ability to speak about government surveillance as unconstitutional under the First Amendment.” As is stands, Twitter and others can’t communicate the exact number of national security letters (NSLs) or FISA court orders, even if there aren’t any. If you’ll recall, it tried to beef up transparency outside of court earlier this year, but Twitter couldn’t come to terms with the US Department of Justice and FBI on as much as a redacted version of the full report.
Filed under: Internet
Source: Twitter, US District Court Filing (PDF)
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Twitter hands MIT your public tweets, along with $10 million
Twitter has just awarded MIT’s Media Lab with $10 million (to be completed over the course of five years) to pore over, analyze and scrutinize every public tweet ever made, all for the sake of science. This new MIT project called Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM) will study patterns of online communication through social media. The researchers then plan to build data visuals and develop mobile apps and other tools (such as one that journalists can use to monitor trends), based on what they learn from studying the social network. According to Bloomberg, one of the project’s major plans is to look into social media’s power to generate negative energy a lot better than it does positive energy.
This isn’t the first time Twitter has offered its users’ content to researchers — back in February, the company launched the Data Grants program, which scientists can access for free. Even before that, many researchers came up with their own methodologies to dig up tweets for an assortment of reasons, such as to track earthquakes or to figure out which restaurants to avoid. Also, if you didn’t know, the company has been selling public tweets to advertisers and marketers for quite a while now. The difference this time is that Twitter’s handing over millions on top of its tweet compilation, something that’ll immsensly help MIT’s Media Lab, which has a current operating budget worth $45 million.
Filed under: Science
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Tweetbot now does justice to Twitter on your iPhone 6
Tweetbot 3 for iOS is frequently regarded as one of the better mobile Twitter apps, no matter the platform — it’s full of shortcuts and visual flair that most clients (including Twitter’s own) sorely lack. It has been lagging on support for Apple’s latest developments, however, which makes today’s version 3.5 update pretty important. The interface now scales properly on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, giving you much more screen real estate when you’re browsing tweets. There are also a few noteworthy upgrades that apply to everyone, including interactive notifications, sharing sheets and support for fetching your login from 1Password. It’ll cost you $5 to get the new release if you don’t already use Tweetbot, but it might well be worth the outlay if the free Twitter apps aren’t quite cutting it.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile
Source: App Store
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Vine now lets you use your Android phone’s existing video clips
Not too long ago Vine blessed iOS users with the ability to import pre-existing videos into the app, and now Google fans can get in on the action. Any clips in your Android camera roll are viable subjects to be trimmed down to six seconds or shorter now, and you can activate your device’s flashlight to work as a flash in low-light situations. There are a few other features too, and you can check those out on the app’s Google Play page. Now all that’s separating your from internet stardom is, well… you.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile
Via: Android Central
Source: Google Play
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Stripe gave Twitter its ‘Buy’ button, and now it’s working with Facebook
Remember when Twitter rolled out its way of buying stuff from within the mobile app? Well, it turns out the startup behind the micro-blogging firm’s commerce function is powering Facebook’s payment service, too. As Recode tells it, Stripe is the sole provider for the purchase-service and also helped with the auto-fill system for Zuckerberg’s mobile payments last year. Apparently that deal ended up working out pretty well. When you impulse-buy a new watch via The Social Network, at least now you know who to blame.
Filed under: Internet, Facebook
Source: Recode
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Amazon lets you fill out your wish list with the help of a hashtag
Look beyond the lightspeed rush of news and one-liners and you’ll see a Twitter that’s slowly morphing into a place where you can buy stuff. Amazon seems to be coming to grips with that peculiar truth, which is why it cooked up another way to use the social service to discover and covet the gewgaws people tweet about. Assuming you’ve already hooked up your Twitter account, try responding to tweets including Amazon product links with #AmazonWishList – they’ll instantly be added to (what else?) your wish list for easy buying down the road. It’s useful enough what with the holiday shopping season nearly upon us, but let’s face it: this just gives Amazon more reason to fill your feed with products you may or may not actually need. We just wish we could fill our Amazon carts directly with a tweet, and we’d be shocked if the folks in Seattle haven’t started thinking about it already.
Source: BusinessWire
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