How to Enable Two Step Verification in Twitter?

Twitter finally launched two step verification system to use Twitter more securely. Two factor Authentication or Two Step Verification protects the users account by adding extra security and prevents from hacking accounts. Google, Microsoft and more popular web services are implemented this two way authentication system already because of low security in using passwords only.

Two-factor authentication enables your online account more secure and you have to enter additional security password when you are trying to login your account on any new device. Generally you have regular password for your account, and the second password will be generated and sent to your Mobile by SMS or call. Even if anybody hacks your password, they cannot login your account without the second password.

How to Enable Two-Step Verification in Twitter?

• Sign in to your Twitter Account and go to Account settings page. Otherwise you can directly go to your Twitter settings here. https://twitter.com/settings/account.

• Scroll down the page and you can see the option “Account Security” in left side. Tick the check box near “Require a verification code when I sign in” option.

• Click on “Add a Phone” option to add your country, phone number and service provider.

• You have to send an SMS from your mobile to the number provided on the screen.

• After your phone will be verified and now Twitter will send a text message that contains your two factor password.

• Finally save your settings.

After the activation of 2-Step verification system, Twitter will send you six digit security code to your phone number through an SMS, every time you login to your Twitter account with a new device.

Note:  There are 3 mobile operators only supported currently in India are Reliance, Airtel and Tata Docomo.

Twitter Launches Vine - Capture Looping Videos and Sharing App for iPhone

Twitter launched a new mobile video sharing app named “Vine” that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Vine inspires creativity, so that you can capture motion and sound to show your creativity in six or less than seconds. Like Twitter’s 140-character limitation, Vine makes it easier to create a scene and share to social networks. Vine labs company has acquired by Twitter recently.

Vine allows you to create short loopable videos within six seconds only, like animation which can be embedded to their tweets on twitter website. That videos will be displayed under the tweets in the timeline and videos will play automatically when you expand it. You can hear the sound of the video, if you dislike the audio you can mute it.

Features: 

• It is free and unlimited uploads of videos
• Capture your world in a fun and simple way.
• You can post videos on vine app and then share to Twitter, Facebook
• Discover new posts and make new friends
• You can explore whats going trendy posts, Editor’s picks
• Search and follow and interact with people you care about

Vine is currently available for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices and they are working to bring it to other mobile platforms soon. Vine supports iPhone 3GS and higher versions.

Download Vine App from iTunes

Read the news from Twitter and Vine Labs.

Download all your Tweets as archive from Twitter

Twitter introduced a new feature that you can download all of your tweets in Twitter website. If you think to save your twitter tweets to your local drive for some reasons, here is the good news to you. You can download all tweets and also retweets as archive. This will be useful when you want to see your past tweets. Here is the steps to download your tweets.

1.Login to your Twitter account.
2.Click on the Gear button that shown at the top right side. Then click on Settings menu.

3.In the Settings page, scroll down your mouse to the last section "Your Twitter Archive"
4.Click on the button "Request your Archive"

All done. Your request will be sent to the Twitter team and you have to wait some time. When your download archive is ready, they will send a email with your download link.

How to Add Cover Photo to Twitter Profile?

Twitter released some new features including cover image for twitter profiles same as Facebook cover photos. Twitter adds this personality feature that called as Twitter Header Photo. So we can easily know people through their header photos.

This header image looks like a background image of your profiles, while your profile photo appears at center of the header image. When you send a tweet to others, header image will be appears inline. This can be viewed from any devices like iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Personalize your Twitter Header

1. Sign in to your Twitter profile and click Gear button at top upper side.

 2. Click on Settings->Design

 3. Scroll down to “Customize your Own” and click on “Change Header”

 4. Now you can upload your image. You can zoom in/out your image to appropriate position and finally click to save changes. That’s it.

 Note:

 • Minimum width and height for image - 1252 x 626
 • Maximum Image file size – 5 MB

How to use Twitter within Gmail?

Twitter is one of the popular social bookmarking site. All are like to share something on web. Generally there are so many sites in social networking category, the annoying thing is login with each sites. But many of the peoples usually using anyone of mail services like gmail,yahoo and etc.