Twitter, the microblogging website that lets users tweet messages of 140 characters or less, is now worth $8bn (£4.9bn). The firm's new price tag comes after a $400m investment in the loss-making venture from serial social media investor DST Global. Twitter is now nominally worth about the same >>>Click Here for More...

Twitter is aiming to strengthen its advertising business with a new twist on Promoted Tweets. Promoted Tweets already exist to a certain extent, but now they’re going to be more directly in the face of users. At first, having Tweet ads be more prominent sounds annoying. But it might not actually >>>Click Here for More...

Twitter has just announced to developers that it has added a field for “possibly_sensitive” content in its streaming API, in a test that will eventually result in more granular end-user media settings. Writes Twitter developer Taylor Singletary, Twitter representative Carolyn Penner >>>Click Here for More...