Twit World Report: July 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Amazon's Awesome Alexa Voice Tech Reaches Out To Other Devices

Alexa, the chatty personality that makes the Amazon Echo smart speaker so fun and handy, wants to join more devices. The company announced Friday the launch of its free Alexa Voice Service (AVS) developer preview.AVS was born out of the company’s work on the Echo, which may be Amazon’s best ...

Mozilla Blasts Microsoft CEO For Replacing User Defaults With Windows Apps

Looks like Microsoft's Windows 10 debut is a hit: The new version of the operating system, which launched Wednesday, now powers more than 14 million devices, the company says.But not everyone is thrilled with the new software. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris ...

Former White House Advisor Explains Why Bitcoin Should Become Official

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.Bitcoin, the digital currency infamous for wild swings in value and black market transactions, could have profound ...

The Week In Funny Tweets

It's been a busy week for everyone in the media, with news flowing in left, right and centre. Just in case you missed a few things, here's the week's ...

The Crappest Tweets With Over 1000 Retweets Today

Twitter is mostly utter drivel, mainly from YouTubers.

Here's the evidence.

This guy's 'problem'.

i'm in a car and i've been chewing a piece ...

#FieldWorkFails: The Hilarious Stories Of Science Gone Wrong

For scientists, students and academics, field work is part of the job.

However, it doesn't always go as planned, as apparent in the brilliant and ...

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Google Makes Beta Testing Android Apps Easier And More Open

Google knows a friction-free app testing and submission process can help developers keep decent apps flowing, so it just rolled out a series of improvements to the beta testing process for Google Play apps. Overall, the changes are designed to help developers manage pre-release beta tests ...

After Gender Ratio Stalls, Pinterest Cofounder Promises To Do Better

Pinterest, the fast-growing, highly valued Visual Web startup, is far ahead of the Silicon Valley pack when it comes to gender diversity. But it's vowing to do far better on both gender and racial diversity, cofounder Evan Sharp promised in a blog post on Thursday.Startlingly, despite Pinterest's ...

How Amazon's Drone Superhighway Would Work

How do we make personal and commercial drones safe? Some of the biggest names in technology put their heads together at a NASA convention in California to address that issue, and Amazon is the first to step up with a detailed proposal. Its idea: build a drone highway in the ...

16 Totally Useless CV Skills We Can All Relate To

We all have a few totally useless "skills" that we can't really put on our CVs. The little things we pick up throughout life that have no real-world a...

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Twitter Backlash After Farage's 'Inflammatory' Calais Migrant Crisis Comment

Nigel Farage has prompted fresh outrage over the Calais migrant crisis, with social media users criticising the Ukip leader for alleged "inflammatory"...

Amazon's Marketplace For Startups Looks Great—If You Can Get In

Amazon has opened up a new streamlined sales channel for startups called LaunchPad. If you've got something to sell—a recently Kickstarted invention, say—then LaunchPad lets you put it in front of millions of Amazon customers and distribute it through the e-commerce giant's massive pipeline. Your ...

Danny Dyer Hilariously Hits Back At 'Fans' On Twitter Over Straight To DVD Films

TV hard man Danny Dyer is renowned for his Twitter spats, and he hasn't failed to deliver in his latest series of comebacks to 'fans' tweeting about h...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Diane Abbott Leads Bitter Twitter Feud With Ex-Miliband Aide

London Mayoral hopeful Diane Abbott has launched a Twitter attack against one of Ed Miliband’s key aides for co-authoring a critical report.

The ...

The Best Place For Tech Startups: Still Silicon Valley…For Now

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein.There’s a new global ranking of startup ecosystems, with the top three spots all from America—Silicon Valley, Los ...

Hulk Hogan Keeps Falling For The Same Joke Over And Over Again

Former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan has a history of falling for pranks on Twitter. He once retweeted a picture of Madeleine McCann from someone who claime...

Busted! Twitter Is Using Copyright Rules To Delete 'Stolen' Jokes

Twitter is beginning to monitor 'stolen' tweets by deleting posts that infringe on the copyright of others.

The crackdown started after a user on t...

Read more: UK Tech, UK News, Twitter, Copyright, UK Tech News

Monday, July 27, 2015

Want To Keep Customers? Integrate Tech With A Personal Touch

It's hard to do personalized customer service at scale. When you're using the technology to streamline the process and save your team time, the sense of personalization is easily lost.You need a strategy to get the best of both worlds—which is why I asked ten founders from YEC how they suggested ...

Windows 10 Suffers Last-Minute Control Panel Bug

With the supposedly polished release of Windows 10 coming in two days, Microsoft should be putting its finishing touches on the operating system. Instead, it’s scrambling to fix a bug in its latest update, sent out through its Windows Insider Program last Saturday. According to CNET, the ...

Friday, July 24, 2015

Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo And Others Push For Accessibility Development

For all their rhetoric and idealism about changing the world, consumer-facing technologies have largely failed at least one major set of users: people with disabilities, a segment that represents roughly 1 in 5 people in the U.S.As the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) ...

The Week In Funny Tweets

It's been a very busy week in the world of news. In case you missed some stuff, here's every major event illustrated with funny tweets.

We learned ...

Liz Kendall's First Favourited Tweet Was A Bit Of An Unusual Choice

Liz Kendall's campaign to become leader of the Labour Party has stumbled in recent days.

But the Leicester West MP has proved she's still in the ra...

Looks Like Uber Might Have Underestimated How Many People Would Want Free Ice Cream...

When Uber announced that they would be offering free ice cream on Friday, eight UK cities collectively rejoiced.

But reality has proven bleak for ...

Read more: UK News, Uber, Twitter, Ice Cream, UK News

Liz Kendall's First Favourited Tweet Was A Bit Of An Unusual Choice

Liz Kendall's campaign to become leader of the Labour Party has stumbled in recent days.

But the Leicester West MP has proved she's still in the ra...

25 Hilarious Memories Of #GrowingUpInLondon

This week's most relatable hashtag award goes to #GrowingUpInLondon, where tweeters are sharing stories every schoolkid and youngster will be able to ...

Twitter Is Going Into Meltdown Over This Picture Of Owen Jones and Ukip MP Douglas Carswell

It all started with an innocent video - a 10 minute verbal jousting between columnist Owen Jones and MP Douglas Carswell.

The two quizzed one anoth...

'Tainted Love' Recreated On Twitter Is Hilariously Impressive

The internet is full of weird ideas, and this is one of them. Someone has recreated the lyrics of Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love' entirely with people's Tw...

Thursday, July 23, 2015

What Startups Can Learn From Jet.com's Awesome Video

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. I didn't expect to spend 5 minutes watching a commercial for an e-commerce startup, let alone enjoy it enough ...

Unseen Photos Of Nirvana's First Ever Gig Posted On Twitter... By Accident

A 19-year-old from Seattle has unknowingly tweeted out previously unseen photos of Nirvana's first ever gig.

Maggie Poukkula shared the photos of ...

Unseen Photos Of Nirvana's First Ever Gig Posted On Twitter... By Accident

A 19-year-old from Seattle has unknowingly tweeted out previously unseen photos of Nirvana's first ever gig.

Maggie Poukkula shared the photos of ...

The Best Of The Hilarious #BabyJams Trend

Midnight, an American late-night game show and self-proclaimed home of #HashtagWars, has got Twitter users making song titles baby-friendly in the hil...

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Piers Morgan Takes On 'Black Twitter' In Lively Minaj Rant

NEW YORK -- Having swum in the choppy waters of gun control during his time at CNN, Piers Morgan waded into the even more turbulent rapids of race on ...

Why Apple Won't Allow Reviews for iOS 9 Yet

Bugs, incompatibilities and other weird things are so common in pre-release software, they're practically guaranteed—which is why Apple has now blocked users from leaving App Store reviews for its iOS 9 beta release. Apple apparently wants to nip premature complaints in the bud, ...

Facebook Facts 2015: Parents on Social Media

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg created theFacebook for fellow Harvard University students to “search for people at your school, find out who are in your classes, look up your friends’ friends, and see a visualization of your social network.” The social network soon included other universities, then high schools, then finally work networks. According to a March 2015 report, Facebook has an average of 936 million daily active users and 798 million mobile daily active users. So when looking back to the platform’s original target audience, it’s entertaining to know that today’s parents love the network, too.

The following infographic shows data from a July 2015 Pew Research center report on parents and social media. In this study, Pew Research Centered defined parents as having a child under the age of 18. While the study reviewed multiple social media platforms, parents prefer Facebook. Therefore, the Pew Research Center took a closer look at Facebook specifically then Growing Social Media selected a few, fun Facebook facts 2015 to share.

The difference between moms versus dads on Facebook was found statistically significant, as well as on Instagram and Pinterest (all with more moms than dads).

However, while mothers and fathers are equally as likely to interact (post, like, comment) on Facebook, mothers do so more “frequently” or “sometimes” at 76 percent compared to fathers’ 61 percent.

Another note worth mentioning is that 12 percent of parents reported that they have felt uncomfortable with a social media post about their child uploaded by a spouse, family member or friend. So a discussion about social media privacy and children may be worthwhile between families, babysitters and friends.

How does your family compare to the average mom and dad on Facebook? Comment below and let us know.

The post Facebook Facts 2015: Parents on Social Media appeared first on Growing Social Media.

Tesco Just Owned Drake On Twitter

We're not sure why anyone would ever try to get in a Twitter fight with one of the biggest rappers in the world, but Meek Mill has, and bizarrely Tesc...

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

A Nokia VR Headset Could Bring Pros And Cons For Developers

According to a Recode report, Nokia may be entering the virtual reality fray with a headset of its own. Its sources peg a product unveiling for the Finnish company next week at an exclusive event in Los Angeles. See also: Virtual-Reality Films Could Put The Whole Industry In The SpotlightFrom ...

This Free Tool Can Tell If Hacking Team’s Exploits Crawled Into Your System

This week, IT security software firm Rook Security released a free tool that can sniff out malware leaked from Milan's Hacking Team, a clandestine group that sells surveillance and malignant software to governments, law enforcement and other private clients worldwide.Ironically, the Italian firm ...

25 Of The Best #TheLiesWeTellKids Tweets

When you become a parent, telling white lies becomes a way of life.

It's the sure-fire way of instilling just the right amount of fear to make the...

11 Times Ricky Gervais Sniped At Animal Cruelty And Nailed It

Back in 2014, notorious funny man Ricky Gervais said: "Animals don't have a voice.

"But I do. A loud one. I'm a fucking big mouth. My voice is for...

11 Times Ricky Gervais Sniped At Animal Cruelty And Nailed It

Back in 2014, notorious funny man Ricky Gervais said: "Animals don't have a voice.

"But I do. A loud one. I'm a fucking big mouth. My voice is for...

After Threatening Suicide, Carter Reynolds Decides To Take A Break From Social Media

Social media star Carter Reynolds is taking a break from Twitter after threatening suicide to his 2.4 million Twitter followers, just days after a sex...

#GrowingUpWithGlasses Tweets Prove The Spectacle Struggle Is Real

#GrowingUpWithGlasses is trending on Twitter proving that the struggle is real for those wearing glasses.

We've collected some of the funniest as t...

Monday, July 20, 2015

The Best Shot At Success For Indie Developers: Go Work For "The Man"

Yes, there's an app for that. But even if there is, you definitely shouldn't write it. Not if you're an indie developer, anyway. (Or you enjoy poverty.)While it's easy to point to successful mobile apps, for small, independent app makers, these are the exceptions to the rule. See ...

Twitter Isn't Sure Whether To Love Or Hate Lee Nelson

Lee Nelson is all over the news after throwing a bunch of money at Sepp Blatter.

The stunt is the latest in a long line of Nelson's bizarre antics,...

Read more: UK News, Sepp Blatter, Fifa, Lee Nelson, Comedy, Twitter, UK News

12 Times Yoko Ono's Twitter Confused Everyone

Yoko Ono has turned her Twitter feed into an impromptu arts project, offering pearls of wisdom and more than a few bizarre pieces of advice.

On Sun...

21 Of The Most Hilarious #GrowingUpScottish Tweets

#GrowingUpScottish is trending on Twitter, and amongst the chat about Irn Bru and miserable weather, there are some hard-hitting tweets about the star...

12 Times Yoko Ono's Twitter Confused Everyone

Yoko Ono has turned her Twitter feed into an impromptu arts project, offering pearls of wisdom and more than a few bizarre pieces of advice.

On Sun...

Virtual-Reality Films Could Put The Whole Industry In The Spotlight

Virtual reality wants to envelop everyone's eyeballs, not just those of gamers. The nascent industry wants couch potatoes, too.Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR gear maker that has come to embody the current virtual-reality wave, has been lobbying hard to make VR cinema an actual thing. Now, the ...

YouTube Star Under Fire For 'Forceful' Sex Tape With 16-Year-Old Girlfriend

Social media star Carter Reynolds has come under fire on Twitter after posting a thinly-veiled apology for a sex tape that leaked of him and his 16-ye...

Friday, July 17, 2015

The Week In Funny Tweets

It's been an awfully busy week! Here's a round-up of everything you might've missed, illustrated with funny tweets.

Lewis Hamilton didn't wear a su...

How The New iPod Touch Will Help You Test Apps

It’s no surprise that Apple’s new iPod Touch is far better than the previous model. Tech moves fast, and it has been three years since the company lavished any attention on this device, which has morphed from a music player into a kind of tiny tablet which can run the same apps as an iPhone.The new ...

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Sphericam 2 Wants To Put VR Filmmaking Within Anyone's Reach

We know that virtual reality has big potential for filmmakers, and more professional rigs are becoming available to help them make polished VR movies. Now, Sphericam aims to give enthusiasts, hobbyists and other dabblers the same opportunity with a new 360-degree ...

Boris Johnson's #AskBoris Goes About As Well As Every Other Twitter Q&A

Once again, Boris Johnson has taken to Twitter to do a Q&A with his people under the #AskBoris hashtag.

Unsurprisingly, it went down about as well ...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

How Small Changes To Google Search Can Punch Your Web Traffic In The Face

This post appears courtesy of the Ferenstein Wire, a syndicated news service. Publishing partners may edit posts. For inquiries, please email author and publisher Gregory Ferenstein. When it comes to optimizing traffic to your website, plenty of reports would have you believe that social media ...

BitTorrent Gives Developers A Cloud-Free Alternative

As privacy and security become bigger concerns, developers who want to store users' data securely may be interested in a new API from BitTorrent that offers more options and a lower barrier to entry than its predecessor. BitTorrent is already familiar to many for its peer-to-peer file transfer ...

13 Terrifying Tweets That Sum Up The Collective Devastation Of The One Direction Fandom

For the One Direction fandom, 2015 has been a tough year.

Zayn left the band, Harry got in a fight with SeaWorld, producer Naughty Boy started fig...

The Met's 'Creepy' Photo Of Michael McIntyre Has Landed Them In Serious Trouble

A photograph of Michael McIntyre taken from aboard a Met Police helicopter and posted to twitter is being investigated by the information watchdog.

...

Met Police Helicopter Deletes 'Creepy' Tweet Of Michael McIntyre

A Met Police helicopter has tweeted out a picture that appears to be of comedian, Michael McIntyre.

The now-deleted tweet by the National Police A...

13 Terrifying Tweets That Sum Up The Collective Devastation Of The One Direction Fandom

For the One Direction fandom, 2015 has been a tough year.

Zayn left the band, Harry got in a fight with SeaWorld, producer Naughty Boy started fig...

As Its Enemies Grow, Flash's Days Are Numbered

On Tuesday, Mozilla and Google stopped Adobe Flash dead in its tracks.In a decision that threatens legions of restaurant websites that inexplicably still feature Flash, the makers of the Firefox and Chrome browsers ended support for all versions of the Web plugin. The move follows the recent ...

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Heil Hair-tler -- Trump Tweets Picture Of Himself Next To The Waffen-SS

NEW YORK -- Somewhere in Manhattan there is a designer formerly of the Trump Organization looking for a new job. That’s because on Tuesday, the Repu...

This New Wi-Fi Tech Uses Proximity To End Waiting In Long Lines

There's a new wireless technology in town, courtesy of the Wi-Fi Alliance. The group just announced a new Wi-Fi Aware certification program, which lets wireless devices discover each other, communicate and share basic information directly—no external network or additional hardware ...

How Google's Latest Boosts Bluetooth Beacons

Bluetooth beacons, those low-power signals that announce location and other data to nearby devices, have broadcasted more hype than reality. That may change, thanks to a Google-backed initiative called Eddystone.Eddystone, at its heart, is primarily a set of formats—agreed-upon standards for data ...

Porn Star Mia Khalifa Just Ruthlessly Shut Down An NFL Player For Pestering Her On Twitter

An actress once named the world’s most popular porn star has delivered a perfect lesson in how to deal with unwanted male attention.

Lebanese-bo...

JK Rowling Wins Twitter Again

JK Rowling is using her Twitter account to take down vile online trolls one by one. And we can't get enough.

This time the Harry Potter author sent...

14 Of The Most Devastating Twitter Rebuttals To David Cameron

David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, tweets a lot but he hardly ever replies to his humble servants.

After some rigorous investigation, we...

Monday, July 13, 2015

Clinton’s Big, Confusing Speech (Kind of) Takes Aim At Uber and Airbnb

Apparently sharing economy is "wage theft,” but also offers exciting opportunities.

9 Unexpected Pitfalls of Raising Capital (And How to Avoid Them)

Someone Is Stuck In A Tent Bag At 'T In The Park' And He's Tweeting About It

A festival-goer at one of Scotland's biggest musical events is claiming to be stuck inside a tent bag as revellers leave the area after the weekend's ...

Twitter Pulls 'Irresponsible' Ad After Epilepsy Fears

Twitter UK has pulled a Vine ad after complaints that it would be dangerous to those suffering from photosensitive epilepsy.

The advert was for Twi...

Read more: Twitter, Social Media, Epilepsy, UK Tech News

Saturday, July 11, 2015

JK Rowling Does Not Take Kindly To People Trolling Serena Williams

When one Twitter troll responded to JK Rowling's admiring tweet about Wimbledon 2015 champ Serena Williams, the inspiring author was having none of it...

Friday, July 10, 2015

#DescribeTwitterIn3Words Is Creating The Best And The Worst Of Internet

Twitter just got told. The masses have been using #DescribeTwitterIn3Words to let the world (and Twitter) know just what they think of the 140-word sp...

Read more: UK Tech, Technology, Twitter, UK Tech News

The Week In Funny Tweets

It's been a very busy week, so you'd be forgiven for missing a few things. In case you did, here's a round-up. Illustrated with funny tweets.

There...

Facebook's Gender Equality Update: Why Icons Have Meaning

It's tricky, but worth it, to think about the pixels.

Thursday, July 9, 2015

With IBM's Fancy 7-Nanometer Chip, Moore's Law (Kind Of) Continues

This breakthrough may pave the way for tinier, more powerful gadgets.

Facebook Adds A Human Touch To The News Feed Algorithm

Why bots need a helping hand.

The New ReadWrite: Read The Future Of Tech—And Write It, Too

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Microsoft Slashes Thousands Of Phone Jobs—So What Does That Mean For Windows Phone?

It's all about the software from now on.

The Revenge Of The Desktop App

Quip, Cotap, and others are scrapping the mobile-first playbook.

Tube Strikers Under Fire For 'Poor Taste' Walkout Just A Day After 7/7 Anniversary

With a Tube strike set to get underway on Wednesday afternoon, some Londoners have taken to Twitter to remark upon the decision to stage the walk-out ...

Alan Partridge Would Be Proud Mr Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has taken part in his first Twitter Q&A of the season.

Using the #AskWenger hashtag and in conjunction with Emirates ...

Read more: Arsenal, Arsenal FC, Twitter, UK Sport News

George Osborne Made Himself Look Silly On Twitter Again, And Everyone Is Having Fun With It

George Osborne attempted to drum up a bit of interest in Wednesday's budget by tweeting a picture of him writing it...

Today I will present a Conse...

Horrendous Reaction To Tragic Death Of Channel Tunnel Migrant Will Make You Despair

The death of a migrant desperately trying to reach Britain on a freight train in the Channel Tunnel left many horrified yesterday - but the tragedy of...

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Apple's Control Issues May Hit New High—By Redesigning Third-Party Packaging

New ultimatum: Get the Apple treatment or get out of the store.

#AskPiers Is Everything You'd Hoped It Would Be. And More...

In a surprising turn of events, outspoken TV host Piers Morgan's #AskPiers tweet session isn't quite going according to plan. Or is it?

The publici...

#AskPiers Is Everything You'd Hoped It Would Be. And More...

In a surprising turn of events, outspoken TV host Piers Morgan's #AskPiers tweet session isn't quite going according to plan. Or is it?

The publici...

What Google Got Right With Its Carpooling Service

Finally—a new player in the sharing economy that's not tone deaf.

Claire Greaves : You Said What About Mental Illness?

"I am intrigued to know what kind of life lead to be so selfishly depressed. Deaths? Rape? Abuse? What exactly have you got to be so depressed about."...

Monday, July 6, 2015

Amazon's New Cloud Drive Apps Want Your Photos And Files

To upload them, though, you have to go elsewhere.

Google’s Project Jacquard Aims To Make "Activewear" A Reality

The real innovations will happen when developers see what Google has up its sleeves.

Friday, July 3, 2015

Peter Thiel’s Advice For Entrepreneurs And Investors In 2 Quotes

Check buzzwords and ego projects at the door.

Emotional Brits Say #WeStandTogether As Nation Mourns 38 Killed In Tunisia

The nation collectively mourned the loss of 38 people in the terror attack in Tunisia in a minute's silence on Friday at midday.

David Cameron and...

Read more: UK News, Tunisia, Twitter, Social Media, UK News

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Rust Never Sleeps: How Mozilla Could Become Cool Again

Mozilla has almost faded from memory, but Rust could make it hip again.

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