Twitter has started testing a new CoTweets feature this week with users of the social network. The CoTweets feature allows two accounts to co-author a tweet and both be tagged in a single tweet. Twitter has confirmed to The Verge that this new feature is now live for some users for a limited amount of time after the company started experimenting with the idea earlier this year. “We’re continuing to […]
Movie fans are getting in on the action this awards season. Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 94th annual Oscars, as well as revealing a new fan-voted category. On Monday, the Academy shared details on the new award, including how anyone can vote for any 2021 movie to win the title using the #OscarsFanFavorite hashtag on Twitter between now and Thursday, […]
Twitter on Thursday said it’s introducing several new updates to its direct messages, which will roll out to some users in the next few weeks. The changes include the ability to send a direct message to multiple people in separate conversations, because who among us has not accidentally started a group chat that way. Now, you can share a tweet in up to 20 separate DM conversations, if the goss is hot […]
The Tom Cruise-led Mission: Impossible films have been going strong since 1996 and while the first sequel wasn’t exactly met with praise, every movie after only got better and more thrilling. The latest in the franchise, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, was the most revered yet, and the movie’s star and director aren’t quite ready to hang up their latex masks. Earlier this week, we learned from a Variety exclusive that Tom Cruise was teaming up with the Rogue […]
When Twitter first launched a test expanding its tweet character limit to 280 characters, some users were excited and others upset. The social media company announced Tuesday that it will roll out the new limit to all users for languages where cramming is an issue, such as English. The former limit was 140 characters. "We are making this change after listening and observing a problem our global community was having (it wasn't easy enough […]
Veteran TV director Jeremy Podeswa has helmed some of Game of Thrones’ moodiest, most striking moments over the past two seasons: Jon Snow’s resurrection, Sansa’s Winterfell wedding to Ramsay, and Melisandre’s jaw-dropping reveal of her true age, among others. For Season 7, he was tasked with both Sunday’s premiere and the finale — and the show’s biggest, most divisive musician cameo yet. Pop singer Ed Sheeran appears midway through “Dragonstone” as a nameless Lannister soldier, serenading […]
After breaking a historic box office record, “Wonder Woman” has broken another record, becoming the most tweeted-about movie of 2017 in the United States. “Wonder Woman” has garnered more than 2.19 million tweets so far this year, according to exclusive information obtained by Variety from Twitter. Those 2.19 million tweets make “Wonder Woman” the most popular movie on Twitter of 2017, surpassing “La La Land” and “Beauty and the Beast,” which topped the box office […]
New York Comic Con wrapped on Sunday after four jam-packed days of pop culture news. Thousands gathered from Thursday to Sunday at the Javitz Center in New York City to check out panels and events around hit shows, including "The Walking Dead" and "Stranger Things," and upcoming movies like "Power Rangers." Netflix also had a strong showing with its Marvel shows, including a surprise appearance from a possible new villain, […]
Twitter, just 10 years old and less than three years since its blockbuster IPO, appears set to throw in the towel. Having struggled to repeat the magic formula that has turned Facebook and Instagram into social media behemoths, and wrestling with repeated losses, an array of suitors is now believed to be circling the company. On Friday, Twitter shares rose 21 per cent, to their highest level this year, amid […]
