So we all recall the kerfuffle when Facebook snatched Instagram away from Twitter and co-founder Jack Dorsey stopped using the tool in a tiff.

And then Twitter took away Instagram’s API access, solidifying the rift. But then Instagram was all “in yo’ face, Twitter” as it came out with a workaround that promised to convert Twitter’s  photo-loving users faster than your favorite cult.

Well, according to The New York Times, Twitter is planning some pretty cool updates in the coming months, including photo filters “that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram.”

Don’t you love tech wars? All that’s missing are battling avatar-style robots.

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Over the summer, Twitter announced that it would be working with select partners to create expanded tweets – tweets that display rich content, such as embedded videos or articles, when clicked on.

And now you have yet another reason to never, ever leave Twitter for your content needs: over 2,000 more brands and companies have signed on to offer expanded tweets.
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Do you use any of Twitter’s suite of promoted products?

If you do then we have some good news – you can now target and push ads towards individuals on Twitter based on their gender, which will help your message reach the most relevant audience.

But Twitter doesn’t ask for our gender when we sign up, and it isn’t always obvious whether a user is male or female (often intentionally so), so how have they solved the problem of mistargeting ads?

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In a change to the user interface that many analysts are already hailing as one of the most innovative design risks in the history of social media, the profile pictures on Twitter.com now behave very differently when you click on them.

Previously, the picture would open in a new tab on your browser.

And now? It pops-up.

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Twitter has quietly launched a Profiles Directory meant to organize every single Twitter user alphabetically by name.
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Twitter underwent a redesign in December of 2011, bringing (among other things), the Discover tab.

And today it updated this tab to bring more real-time results your way.

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In an announcement made live this morning on the TODAY show, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo explained that some pretty big changes are coming to everyone’s Twitter profiles.

Namely, we all now have the option to upload a cover photo to our Twitter profiles that will display on Twitter.com, Twitter for Android, iPhone, and iPad.
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Twitter has been testing out a new feature on its mobile site: the ability to upload photos captured directly from the user’s smartphone or uploaded from the phone’s photo library.
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@Anywhere, the way websites used to integrate Twitter into websites (from the way back 2010 time) is disappearing.

Now that you can embed entire timelines into websites, there’s really no point to keep this service, now is there? So there’s no reason to pout. Unless you like hovercards, that is.

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In a move that will likely disappoint narcissists, Twitter has come up with a cool new offering that we hope will soon apply to every Twitter account: the ability to filter out replies when viewing a user’s Twitter stream.

For now, this will only work for verified users, unfortunately. But it’s a start!
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