Americans use Twitter to chat about sports and TV shows. In Turkey, Twitter is an essential communications tool used to organize political protests. When the Turkish prime minister announced Thursday his plans to “eradicate Twitter” before the country’s elections, effectively cutting off access to the social network, all hell broke loose. Check more in this article from TechHive.com
Tweetbot for Mac OS X, which is one of the most widely used Twitter clients for Apple’s desktop and laptop OS, has just received a new update that makes some pretty useful and nice looking changes to the client. It also fixes some nagging bugs that some users have been facing. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Twitter’s mobile music app, launched last year amid a crowded market for online music services, is being shut down, Twitter said on Friday. Click this link to read PCWorld.com
Everyone wants instantaneous always-on availability when it comes to chat. Skype included. That’s why the latest update to Skype on Android comes with a lesser drain on your mobile’s battery. Skype promises “aggressive battery savings” that will allow you to leave Skype running in the background. Download Skype 4.7 from the Google Play Store and test it out. The update will be also come to the Kindle Fire family of tablets later this month. Check on this article on MakeUseOf.com
Twitter is getting nostalgic on its 8th birthday: The social network is inviting you to take a look at your first tweet—and then tweet about it. It’s all very meta. Check on this article from TechHive.com
Citing the need to protect users from government cyber-spying, Google has tightened Gmail’s encryption screws by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. Check on this article from PCWorld.com
End-to-end encryption is widely considered the best defense against a surveillance dragnet, but the tech companies that many of us interact with on a daily basis—Facebook, Google, Twitter—have been slow to offer protections for users. The Verge reported Wednesday that Twitter, which had reportedly planned to encrypt direct messages, has dropped the project to focus on more pressing matters. Check out why on this article from TechHive.com