Twitter is currently developing and testing out an app for Google Glass. There has even been a tweet from the official Twitter Glass app spotted by Jonathan Gottfried, a developer evangelist at Twilio. Gottfried sent out the tweet below with a screenshot about how he spotted the official Twitter for Glass app.
[Screenshot from Jonathan Gottfriend's Twitter account]
Twitter acquired social media communication tool TweetDeck back in May 2011. Now Twitter will stop supporting TweetDeck on Adobe AIR, Android, and iPhone on May 7th. The Facebook integration of TweetDeck will no longer be supported on May 7th also.
Twitter has announced a new music discovery application called #music. The app has been launched as a separate app for the iPhone on the Apple App Store also. The #music app helps users find music that is popular on Twitter based on the bands that you follow. The app’s navigation includes Popular (new music trending on Twitter), Emerging (hidden talent found in the tweets), Suggested (artists you might like), #NowPlaying (Tweeted by people you follow), and Me (Artists you follow).
This morning, Ribbon announced that they have launched an in-stream payment service on Twitter through Twitter Cards. In just a few hours, Twitter shut-down access to the payment service according to Ribbon co-founder Hany Rashwan.
Twitter’s Vine video app is now the most popular free application on the Apple App Store. Twitter acquired Vine in October 2012. Vine allows users to create and share six-second videos and it re-launched in January. That means it took under 4 months to become the most popular free app on the App Store.
Twitter’s video app, Vine, now lets you browse the service using trending hashtags. The displayed hashtags are based on what is rising in popularity. This is a great way to discover interesting content that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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Cue the Prince jokes from the Chappelle Show, Prince’s record label sent Twitter’s Vine service a DMCA take-down notice. Twitter was hit with the notice from NPG Records because of 8 video clips that was posted on the Vine social video service. This content allegedly violates Prince’s intellectual property. Twitter ended up complying with the request by taking down the clips.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is going to be launching a new mobile startup company called Jelly according to AllThingsD. Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams stepped down from their day-to-day roles at Twitter in June 2011. The two relaunched Twitter’s parent company, Obvious, with Twitter’s product boss Josh Goldman.
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