If you are a regular reader of our site, you may have seen us tweet out links to our content via our Twitter account, @md2news.
Like anyone else who uses Twitter, we abide by the microblogging site’s strict limit of 140 characters per post. An announcement made by Twitter earlier today will make using the service a bit easier for you, us, and everyone else.
In the coming months, items such as usernames, photos and videos will no longer count towards the 140-character limit, which will remain in place. Previously, adding these items to posts counted towards this limit, with URLs taking up to 23 character in total.
Twitter has been mired in an uphill battle recently, with user growth remaining stagnant. The modification is the latest in a series of new enhancements made by Twitter over the past year.
Read more here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-characters-idUSKCN0YF21M
TV on the Radio is a band known for making noise on the indie rock scene since 2001. If YouTube has their way, they will make TV on the Internet a reality by 2017.
Already home to millions of hours of video content, many of which includes clips and episodes of popular TV shows, YouTube is planning to enter the world of pay TV. They’ll do it with the launch of a new service that would offer users a bundle of cable channels that would be streamed online.
Branded as Unplugged, the service would be available for under $35 per month. YouTube has already begun initial discussions about Unplugged with several major media companies, but has yet to get any of them on board.
Unplugged isn’t the Google-owned company’s first foray into paid video streaming. YouTube launched its Red premium subscription service last year.
Read more here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-04/youtube-said-to-plan-unplugged-online-tv-service-for-2017
