Eight ways to save your tweets

The handy utility If This Then That (IFTTT) recently announced the end of its Twitter integration. Fortunately, there are workaround.

32 laws of the tweet: The simple social network gets very very complex (for developers)

The rules for third-party developers who integrate with Twitter have just gotten more complex, and we count at least 32 separate requirements for apps that incorporate tweets.

Twitter API updates: more authentication, fewer tweets, more rules, certification, and … talk to the hand

Twitter just announced the anticipated changes to its API, intended to "deliver a consistent Twitter experience." Or to tighten Twitter's grip even more on how Twitter users' tweets are used off the social networking site.

What President Obama and others are saying about the Mars landing

The United States is reunited with Mars again, and it feels so good. So good, in fact, everybody is chiming in on the landing, including President Barack Obama and a few tech heavyweights with an eye to the sky.

Twitter-based Olympic cheer meter reveals who’s winning … on the sofas of the world

London 2012 starts today, and many of us will be glued to screens both large and small for the next 16 days. But while we’re watching, we’re probably also tweeting: cheering our teams and our stars.

And while NBC might …

Twitter improves tweet targeting options to help advertisers reach specific audiences

Twitter has taken the most obvious next step in its quest to become an attractive destination for advertisers: It’s just released targeted tweets, the latest enhancement to its Promoted Tweets ad product that lets brands pay to place tweets in …

Twitter fights court order to hand over tweets in Occupier’s trial

Twitter isn’t happily handing over one Occupy Wall Street protester’s tweets. The company appealed a ruling today that forces Twitter to package the protester’s tweets for use in a lawsuit against him.

Twitter’s legal counsel Benjamin Lee announced the appeal …

Silicon Valley tweets about Marissa Mayer’s new job at Yahoo

What’s a big executive hire like Yahoo tapping Google’s Marissa Mayer without a look at what Silicon Valley has to say on Twitter? Mayer, who was Google’s 20th employee, started us off with her own 140-character announcement:

“I’m incredibly excited …

Are your brand’s tweets too hot for kids? Age-screening tool comes to the rescue

Content too hot for Twittering youngsters? Buddy Media to the rescue.

The social media analytics firm, which was recently acquired by Salesforce, is today releasing a free age-screening tool for brands that was developed in partnership with Twitter.

The gatekeeper …

LinkedIn: Twitter won’t share, so use LinkedIn to tweet instead

Twitter and LinkedIn have had a very public falling out.

Twitter posted earlier today about “delivering a consistent Twitter experience,” which basically meant, as Owen Thomas at Business Insider noted, they were taking their ball and going home. The impact …

Watch the world unfold in real-time with geo-located tweets

It’s Saturday. Which means you probably have nothing better to do than go to a beauty show in a home in central China. Or join Dionysus at a cafe in Rome. Or, possibly, be on the lookout for small dogs …

Twitter enriches tweets with even more media goodness

Twitter has added a slew of partners to make tweeted content more engaging with photos, videos, and news, the company announced Wednesday in a blog post.

“You’ve probably expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or see photos from …

Twitter goes deeper into Facebook with photo and hashtag integration

Twitter for Facebook integration has been dramatically improved with auto-tweets shared to the social network now featuring photos and links, as well as linked mentions and hashtags, all carried over from your original tweet.

The richer Facebook connection, first noticed …

Twitter cripples just-launched Thunderclap for automating tweets en masse

Twitter today suspended just-launched Thunderclap’s access to its API, rendering the service, which seeks to amplify tweets through automation, completely useless.

Brand-new Thunderclap refers to itself as a “crowdspeaking platform,” and riffs on the crowdfunding model to help tweeters make …

Twitter for iPhone, Android updated with better search and discovery features

Hey Twitter fanatics, your favorite social network for short bursts of information has released updates to its iPhone and Android applications so that you can feed the beast and find out what’s happening even faster.

Twitter for iPhone and Twitter …

March Madness sparked 2M tweets (infographic)

As men everywhere lament the end of spring’s most electric sports competition, now is the time to reflect and make sense of March Madness — in terms of tweets, that is.

The college basketball tourney, which came to a close …

Twitter tops 140M active users, sees 340M tweets a day

Twitter has more than 140 million active users who send upwards of 340 million tweets each day, the company announced Wednesday on the sixth anniversary of the first tweet.

In six years time, Twitter has become a modern-day water cooler …

American Express transforms Twitter hashtags into savings for cardholders

American Express is giving cardmembers one super compelling reason to tweet about promotional offers: instant savings at name brand U.S. merchants.

The company launched a “Tweet your way to savings” program today to encourage members to sync their AmEx cards …