BlackBerry has now pushed a new beta update for the BlackBerry Hub+ Services app to fix a small bug that was preventing new Hub users or those setting up Hub again for the first time from authorizing their Twitter accounts.
As posted on the Twitter blog, the company has now revealed an internal bug caused passwords to be stored unencrypted. However, the changing password suggestion is out of an abundance of caution, not due to any breach.
Although it was initially introduced as 'Save For Later' back in October, Twitter today has announced the full rollout of a new Bookmarks feature that allows Twitter users to privately save Tweets for later.
With BlackBerry World being a bit shall we say unstable lately, it seems as though we missed mentioning one important update to the popular BlackBerry 10 Twitter client, Blaq.
You'll soon be able to fit more characters into your Tweets as Twitter has now officially started expanding character count to 280.
For some Twitter users, 140 characters just is not enough to get out what you need to say. Twitter has now recognized that and has begun testing a new 280 character limit within a small group.
If you've been using Blaq as your Twitter client on BlackBerry 10, you will want to fire up BlackBerry World and get the latest build downloaded if you haven't already.
Twitter is making it easier for anyone to request a "Verified" account with a new online application process open to the public.
Twitter has acknowledged that a number of usernames and passwords have been leaked, but says that its own systems were not breached.
Twitter has announced that it will add a number of exceptions to the social network's previously strict 140-character post limit in the coming months.