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19, Apr 2013

Twitter has announced that they are killing support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 starting May 13th. Twitter's Tweet button was first introduced in 2010 and was built around Internet Explorer 6.

13, Mar 2013

Its finally here. Twitter has announced the availability of the new official Twitter app for Windows 8. The app brings along with it some unique features exclusive to Windows 8, such as Live Tile support, Snap view support, and integration with the Search charm.

01, Feb 2013

Well, this is one big oops for Twitter, as today the company has announced that the recent downtime was because of a security breach that gained access to limited user data, including usernames, emails and more worryingly, passwords.

06, Sep 2011

Looks like Microsoft has extended its real-time search deal with Twitter to allow for Twitter updates on Microsoft's Bing search engine results. Microsoft now has a major competitive advantage over its rival, Google, who used to have a similar real-time search deal with...

16, Jul 2011

Twitter, who recently ended its contract with Google to have a stream of tweets displayed alongside search results, is now trying to woo Microsoft in a similar contract.

26, Mar 2011

For those wanting to have real time Twitter updates when using Bing News, fear not, we finally have this neat little feature available for us to use.

22, Mar 2011

This one is going to be classified as very interesting. When Twitter users were doing searches on Twitter for the term 'Firefox' were being led to a 'Promoted Tweet' featuring Internet Explorer 9. Did Microsoft have something to do with this or was it merely a coincidence?...

27, Jan 2011

ReadWriteWeb: Alek Kołcz, Principal Scientist at Microsoft's search engine Bing, appears to have left the company and joined Twitter this week. Kołcz's Twitter messages are protected and he hasn't changed any of...

13, Nov 2010

How hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay and Google? It wouldn't be impossible, but for even a moderate Internet user, it would be a real pain. Forgoing Google and Amazon is just inconvenient;...

14, Sep 2010

Twitter is turning its short-messaging website into a multimedia showcase by adding a new pane that will make it easier for its 160 million users to peruse photos and video.