Your tweets can now be over 140 characters

Twitter has released a much-awaited feature: longer tweets. There is still the 140-character limit but there are some parts of your tweet that won’t be counted. These include media attachments (GIFs, videos, images, and polls), quote tweets (except if you actually put the link on your own and not using the Twitter feature), and even usernames when replying to a tweet. For that last point, it doesn’t have to be just one user. If you reply to multiple people, their usernames won’t be counted as well.

Source: The Verge

iOS finally gets Twitter’s Night Mode option

After launching its Night Mode on Android last month, Twitter brings the feature to iOS users. As its name suggests, Night Mode brings a darker skin to the app so it’s easier to read through your feed in places with less light. Once the update has headed your way, you can activate the feature by heading over to the app’s settings panel. Tap on “Display and sound” and then you can see the toggle for it under text size and other accessibility options.

Wikipedia co-founder gets his Twitter account hacked

OurMine, a hacking group, adds another high-profile social media breach to its list. This time they take over the Twitter account of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. On Saturday, a tweet on Wales’ account showed up saying “RIP Jimmy Wales, 1966 – 2016,” which caused people to speculate if something did happen to him. Minutes later though, another tweet shows up saying “I confirm that Wikipedia is all lies, OurMine is the true.” The tweet included a link showing the group’s logo as well as an ad for social media security services. Wales’ bio has also even been changed to read “hacked by OurMine.”

Some of the other prominent figures OurMine has hacked include some of the heads of the biggest internet/tech companies including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. It seems Wales has gotten back access to his account and tweets about three hours ago: “I'm (obviously) OK, and tweeting back to normal.”

Source: Mashable

Twitter helps keep harassment at bay… sort of

Photo taken from 9to5Mac

If you want to insulate yourself from the negativity that spawns on Twitter, the social network is offering all its users a way out. Twitter is making available to all its users the ability to limit the notifications you see. You can opt to just see notifications sent by users you follow. Of course, this doesn’t take you entirely out of the conversation, it’s just like putting blinders on to not see distractions. It’ll still be there, though.

Twitter has been trying various means to help lessen incessant abuse and harassment that happens on its platform but we wonder if this is the solution for it. If it’s something you want to try though, then you should be able to make the changes now. Twitter also introduces quality filter setting, which lets you filter out “lower-quality content.” It supposedly improves the quality of tweets you see based on criteria like account origin and behavior.