Twitter Analytics Now Available for Everyone

Twitter analytics previously available to only Twitter advertisers are now available for everyone.

With Twitter analytics you can view the performance of your Twitter accounts with details such as how many retweets, favourites or mentions you are getting.
These analytics also allow you check the details about followers such as their geographic location.

Analytics data can be downloaded as CSV file to computer.

Go to analytics.twitter.com and use your Twitter login. Then allow access to Twitter Ads app. Click Analytics tab.

Wider screen, Improved Notifications, New Tweets Composer with Updated Twitter for Android and iPhone

Twitter 5.7 for iOS changelog:

• The new Tweet composer for iPhone makes sharing photos easy and lets you preview how your Tweets will look.
• Enjoy a more beautiful design on iPhone with wider timelines in all parts of the app.
• Receive a notification when a friend has joined Twitter.

Twitter 4.1.0 for Android changelog:

• The new Tweet composer makes it easier to share with quick access to your camera roll and clear previews of how your Tweets will appear.
• notifications now include details like avatars and indicate how people are interacting with you (reply, retweet, etc.) for devices running Android 4.0 and higher.
• Enjoy wider and taller timelines in all parts of the app including profiles, search, and Discover.
• Receive a notification when a friend has joined Twitter.

Viber Android and iPhone Updates and New Windows Desktop Version

Viber have released updates for its Android and iPhone mobile applications. With these mobile updates Viber have also announced Viber Windows and Mac desktop clients.

New Viber mobile updates include:

• Support for all new Viber Desktop on Windows and Mac OS
• Transfer live calls between Viber on mobile and Desktop
• Video messaging
• Improved sound quality for both Wifi and Mobile networks
• Online status indicator for contacts
• In app banner notifications
• Automatic downloading of new received photos
• Caption adding to photos and videos before sending them
• Photo galleries for contacts or groups
• Improved photo features with larger size and large photos thumbnails
• Updated contact information screen
• New stickers
• Several other bug fixes and performance improvements

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SMW4 Cable Repaired: Internet Speeds Coming Back to Normal in Middle East and Pakistan

Updates:

• 10:37 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- @PTCLCares: The Undersea Cable repair work is complete and v are shifting traffc on SMW4. We now hv more than sufficient bandwidth on east and west side (Will take one to two days for full speed restoration)
• 7:06 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- @TH_ServeNET: The link to Europe via Submarine Cable (SMW4) is coming up and taking traffic since 05:00 morning (26 April 2013)
• 3:31 AM - 26 Apr 13 -- Algeria Telecom: End of maintenance of international cable (SMW4), Recovering Traffic.
• 7:00 AM - 23 Apr 13 -- @AaqilsBlog: SMW4 Egypt undersea cable problem: Repair work started on 21st April and repair is expected to completed by 26th April.

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On 27th March Egyptian Naval forces claimed that they had caught divers sabotaging a submarine cable off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. In any event, SMW4 clearly suffered a major failure caused widespread disruption of Internet services from Egypt to Pakistan.

Several internet and telecom service providers were either degraded or unavailable due to the SMW4 cut off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. These providers fell back on eastbound transit through the Far East, but those backup paths couldn't provide enough capacity for bandwidth load causing slow or below than slow internet speeds.

Outlook Gets Two Step Verification Security Feature and 32 New Domains

Microsoft have announced two step verification security feature for Outlook (available for all accounts Hotmail, Live mail, Outlook etc).
Start setting it up at https://account.live.com/proofs/Manage --it only takes a few minutes.

Windows Phone Application: For Windows Phone, Microsoft have released Authenticator app. The advantage of authenticator applications is that they use advanced cryptography to generate codes to access your account without the need to be online.

Two Step Verification isn't required every time:  On devices you use regularly, you can select an option to not ask for security codes. This makes two-step verification painless — you use a code sent to a phone or email only once (per Web browser per device) and Microsoft remembers that device in the future. If you don’t use the device for 60 days, they prompt you for a code again for your security.

-What is two step verification?
Two step verification sends you security code at your phone by SMS or by an automated phone call before you try to sign in into some new device. Which makes your account more secure. For example if somebody steals your password they won't be able to use it if they don't have your phone.

With the announcement of the new security feature, Microsoft also announced 32 new domain names for Outlook. List of new Domains are below (image).
These domains will be available for new account registrations within next few days.

Twitter launches trends for Pakistani cities

Twitter have launched trends for more 160+ locations and Pakistan got city based trends for the first time for following cities:

• Faisalabad
• Lahore
• Rawalpindi
• Karachi
• Multan

Slow Internet Problem Will Be Fixed Before Friday

Telecom Egypt CEO have said that slow internet problem will be fixed before Friday.

• According to reports, the SMW4 maritime cable was cut around 750 meters north of Alexandria, which slowed internet service in Egypt and other countries including Pakistan.

• Other reason from different sources that a massive and relatively new form of cyber attack aimed at a anti-spam company is interrupting services and causing traffic slowdowns particularly in Europe.

Microsoft shutting down MSN messenger and Users will be moved to Skype

Microsoft have announced to stop MSN messenger services from March 15 2013. MSN messenger will continue in the China only.

But don't worry, All live/hotmail/msn/outlook users will be able to login their ID into Skype. All of your MSN contacts will be available in Skype for chat/video call and voice calls.

Skype has already added Microsoft Account login option (as shown in the screenshot)

Fake Female Profiles to Gain Popularity on Social Networks

Tagged and Badoo websites are known for using and running fake female profiles to gain users, especially Badoo.

If you don't login to Badoo, they keep sending messages like, One female is waiting for you, New females have joined Badoo etc etc.
Doesn't matter how many times you disable this kinda email notifications from you Badoo account settings but they are never stopping. (then I send such sites to my spam folder)

If you login to Badoo site, they will show you fake female profiles, advertising messages in inbox to pay and send gifts to fake female profiles or even "hi" from fake female profiles which then they promise will reply only if you send them paid virtual gifts from Badoo site.

Download ALL of your Tweets

Twitter is rolling out feature to its users which allows to download Tweets. It includes all tweets since the first tweet of your account.

To download your tweets, go to Settings from Twitter web and look for Your Twitter Archive option at the bottom.

This option may not be available for many right now because Twitter is rolling out this new feature gradually to users.

Upon using Twitter Archive option, Twitter will send email which contains Tweets archive download link.
Archive will open Tweets history in the browser (offline too) with ability to easily filter Tweets by month or year.

Twitter Becoming Instagram by Adding Instagram like Photo Editing Features

New Twitter Photos features add instagram like photo editing options to Twitter Android and iPhone applications.

Twitter users will be able to tweak photos while uploading them with different effects, cropping, auto tuning.

Rumors that Twitter is also testing large size high quality photos uploading.

Twitter is surely improving its photo community. In past Twitter launched profile headers, profile wall photos album, photos preview within tweets and now this new fun way of adding photos to tweets is a competition for popular image sharing site instagram. Before I had to switch to instagram for the tuning of my photos to share on Twitter but now I shall be doing that within Twitter.

How to Add Twitter Cards Support for Your Blogspot Blog

Want to show your blog posts summary with Tweets? This feature is available for anyone by Twitter. It is called Twitter Cards. You need to configure your blog/site according to Twitter guide in order to display your links summary in tweets. WordPress.com blogs already have this support but for WordPress.Org blogs you need some Twitter Cards plugin or edit your template.

Here I am going to tell you how can you make your blogspot/blogger blog posts to display summaries of your blog links in Tweets.
It is very easy, just copy paste this code into your blogspot blog template before </head> tag. You need to edit only one thing in this code, that is Twitter username. Put your Twitter username and use the code given below.

New Twitter Web Features and Mobile Apps Updates

Twitter is rapidly adding new features. Recently they have announced following mobile and web updates.

Send a Tweet to someone at Email:
You can send tweet to someone from Twitter web.
Expand a tweet, Click More > Email Tweet

Tweet sharing feature to email is rolling out to all users slowly.



Twitter have updated mobile apps for Android and iOS:

See headlines and photos: Now you can preview photos and article summaries without a tap in Discover and search results. This new design for mobile brings the content of each Tweet front and center, so you can easily enjoy the view.

Discover popular Tweets: Find out what’s popular among the people you’re connected to in a simple stream of Tweets, like Discover on twitter.com. Just tap “View all Tweets” to see a continuous stream of news, photos and other stories shared by the people in your network.

Search for a new perspective: In search, photos from relevant results also appear right at the top of the stream so you can see what’s happening from multiple perspectives. You can also understand what's resonating in your network with context like who Favorited a Tweet.

Use Google Services on Mobile for Free (coming soon)

If you know about Facebook Zero, they provide free Facebook browsing on mobile phones with several partnered networks around the world. Users open Facebook site with mobile internet but aren't charged.

Similarly, Google is also testing a service called Google Freezone. Users will be able to use Google search, Gmail, Google+ with mobile browser without paying data charges.

Currently Google Freezone is being tested in Philippines but later Google will partner with other providers of different countries to provide free services through mobile browsers.

Google Freezone Philippine page: http://goo.gl/xeplI

Twitter Removes User Agent Information

in above screenshot, you can see the second person posted tweet via Mobile Web (old screenshot)

Twitter removed user agents information from their mobile clients back in July 2012. Now they have removed it from web too.
Expect it to be removed from Tweetdeck also. Tweetdeck is owned by Twitter.

What I mean by user agent is, you cannot know from which client your friends are posting tweets. Like before you were able to see whether they are using web, mobile web, twitter for android, twitter for iPhone, twicca, Hootsuite, twitterfeed etc.

Twitter SMS now available for Warid telecom Pakistan customers

Twitter SMS services are now available for Warid Pakistan customers. Warid customers can update their Twitter status via SMS. Can receive SMS notifications from their favourite Twitter users.

Charges:

• SMS notifications receiving is free
• Sending SMS to Twitter number 40404 charges are 1Rs per SMS
• No hidden or other rental charges

These Twitter Usage Limitations Many Don't Know

Some Twitter users feel frustrated when they are having issues when tweeting, creating lists, sending DMs. They should know following limits which apply to all Twitter users.

• Twitter have lists limits, every account can create 1000 total lists (private or public)
• Every list can have maximum 5000 number of people
• Every Twitter account can send 250 Direct Messages per day
• Twitter allows 1000 tweets per day. About 40 tweets in an hour. If you exceed per hour limit, wait for your hour to complete to start tweeting again
• You can follow 1000 people per day. There are other following limits too which Twitter team does not disclose to stop spam abuse
• When you have followed 2000 people, twitter applies strict following policies on your account to follow more people. These policies are also hidden but in simple words, you should have more people following you than the people you are following.
• You cannot change your account email more than 4 times per hour
• 25 pictures per day upload limit
• 5000 SMS receiving limit/day

How to Open Blocked sites in Pakistan Easily

Twitter was blocked by Pakistan Gov. for protests against NATO crimes by the order of Pakistani government.

Twitter is back but you should configure your Twitter with Hootsuite and Seesmic in case if twitter is banned again.

Following are the ways you can still use Twitter or access/unblock other blocked/banned sites.

Use SpotFlux. Download it and get all sites unblocked very easily. Using spotflux software is the easiest method to unblock sites in any country, even YouTube.

Coming soon: New Gmail version

A new version of Gmail web is coming soon. You can preview incomplete version of new Gmail by changing your Gmail theme to "Preview" theme from Gmail settings.

New Gmail version is clean more simple and few extra tweaks/features.

Google is adding their Google+ (Google Plus) service integration to their every service. New Gmail will also have Google+ integration, you will be able to see people profile pictures in Gmail conversations.

Your Email ID Yahoo Hotmail is Automatically Sending Emails to Your Contacts [solution]

A problem common among several these days that their Yahoo or Hotmail email keeps sending spam email messages without their consent to all contacts saved in the email.

It means that your email account password have been hacked. Usually hacked of those who are using Microsoft Windows and installing several useless Internet toolbars and other emoticons etc stuff. Not all software should be trusted they track your passwords then send them to software owners.