Twitter tips for brands- Engagement higher on weekends?

How can you get the most out of Twitter? Social media tool Buddy Media has issued a new report on how businesses can use Twitter to heighten engagement and produce favourable results. The report states that to more effectively leverage Twitter as a marketing channel,...

Twitter offers Do-Not-Track privacy option

Twitter has agreed to offer Do Not Track requests to grant users more control over their privacy, and potentially opt of some advertising messages. By choosing not to be tracked at browser level, some websites will no longer allow third parties to note what websites a...

Pakistan restores Twitter after weekend ban

Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking the microblog over the weekend, due to “blasphemous” posts about a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The website was blocked Sunday by the telecoms authority on the orders...

Twitter ‘tried to buy Instagram before Facebook’

Twitter tried to purchase Instagram a few months ago, before Facebook shelled out a huge $1 billion for the photo sharing application, according to a news report. The report, from the New York Times, claims that Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, invested in...