25 years ago, on 3 December 1992, a British engineer sent a message to a colleague. The contents were unremarkable, a simple “Merry Christmas,” but this dispatch of seasonal cheer happened to be the first text message ever sent.
These days, the humbl…
Category: Text Messaging
Twitter testing a feature that shows how many are ‘talking about’ tweets
Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that will show how many people are “talking about” individual, popular tweets. The metric shows up under some embedded tweets when they appear elsewhere on the web, and seems to replace both the retweet and replies totals with one, cumulative total. The new look for embeds as seen above is just a small experiment according to Dan Jackson,… Read More
Twitter to revoke verification for some accounts as part of overhaul
Twitter says that it’s making progress on its plan to review its authentication system, which it’s conducting in the wake of backlash against the social network verifying the account of a white supremacist rally organizer. As a result, it’s going to change how it treats verification of accounts, and will unverify some users “whose behavior does not fall within”… Read More
Twitter to revoke verification for some accounts as part of overhaul
Twitter says that it’s making progress on its plan to review its authentication system, which it’s conducting in the wake of backlash against the social network verifying the account of a white supremacist rally organizer. As a result, it’s going to change how it treats verification of accounts, and will unverify some users “whose behavior does not fall within”… Read More
Judge sentences man to send 144 compliments after he sent 144 ‘nasty’ messages to ex
A Hawaii man got his comeuppance for sending more than 100 mean texts to his ex-girlfriend.
Last week, Daren Young, 30, was ordered to send his ex 144 compliments after he texted and called her 144 times, violating a court-ordered protection issued i…