How to Update to the New Twitter Profile Design

Twitter unveiled new profile page designs recently, and the rollout has been trickling down to different users. However, a new release today allows a user to update to the new design manually. Here’s how to update your profile page to the new Twitter layout.

Go to this link, and simply please “Get it now.”

Enjoy the new design!

Social Media Disaster: #myNYPD Twitter Campaign Gone Wrong

Imaging planning a marketing campaign on Twitter with a unique hashtag to promote customer engagement, but that hashtag unintentionally becomes a tool to self-destroy your public image.

Well that’s exactly what happened the New York Police Department’s social media movement yesterday, when the organization promoted users to share aspiring photos with members of the NYPD using hashtag #myNYPD.

Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mE2c3oSmm6
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 22, 2014

Though what started as an initiative for positive image branding soon backfired when the internet used that hashtag, #myNYPD, to publicize photos of accused police brutality.

This major social media fail goes to show how companies ought to be cautious in planning marketing campaigns on social media networks. Brands must understand that marketing on the internet is unlike other forms of media, because the power of the internet belongs to the people themselves.

Netflix Increasing Subscription Prices

Netflix released plans today to initial a price increase for its on-demand streaming services. The company is likely to raise subscription prices by $1 or $2 per month for new customers, and later implement the changes to current customers over the next year.

The announcement comes after strong first-quarter earnings. The price increase will help the company compete with cable companies as well as other streaming services, and also to help manage and grow its original programming content.

Is This The New iPhone 6? Leaked Picture Spreads on Internet

As we get closer to the release of the iPhone 6, we can expect new information on the phone, and even leaked pictures. Today was the first of upcoming images that possibly reveal Apple’s new iPhone 6. As shown above, the phone is compared next to the iPhone 5S to depict its increase screen size.

The phone in the leaked image looks identical to another picture which revealed the front panel of the phone.

As indicated, the phone will have major design changes in size and button layout. The iPhone 6 is expected for release in September of 2014.

Google Glass Available For Purchase Starting Today

Google has opened the sale for Google Glass today in the United States, but only for a limited time.

You can purchase glass for $1,500, including your choice of a frame or shades. There is a limited amount of units availability, and it the sale is expected to close tonight, though Google announced it may consider extending the purchase deadline depending on available and the smoothness of today's release.

To purchase glass, you must be at least 18 years of age and a resident of the United States. Click here to visit the Google Glass store.

Twitter Introduces New Facebook-Like Design

Your Twitter page is about to look a whole lot different. The social media network, Twitter, is beginning to roll out a new design with a renovated look. The overhauled layout includes a screen-wide header photo, a new sidebar layout, and a redesigned timeline with a new featured tweet update that allows users can pin a tweet to the top of their page.

The new design does look familiar to its social media competitor, Facebook. In 2013, the company introduced a similar layout with cover photos and a arrangement much alike Twitter’s new update.

Some Twitter users prefer the social media network specifically because it is much different than Facebook, but now with a copycat design, users don’t seem to appreciate the move.

The new Twitter design will be implemented to all users within the next few weeks.

Major Start Menu Comeback in Upcoming Windows 8.1 Update

Windows recently announced Tuesday that there will be an upcoming update to Windows 8.1, and by the looks of things, this will be pretty big changes.

The update features the return of the start menu – yes, the bar that left millions in a frantic disorientation once it was removed – will be making its comeback after Microsoft has finally come to terms with the mistake three years later.

Half of the start menu looks familiar to the one featured in Windows 7, though an interesting merge has been made with apps, allowing live tiles to be displayed in the menu bar.

Apps will also be able to be run through window screens on your desktop, not a full page takeover as seen now. With this update, Microsoft will manage to break down the brick walls that isolated the desktop with each app that contributed to such a discomforting and inefficient user experience.

The Windows 8.1 update will be available for download on April 8 through Windows Update.