Twitter in its earliest days. Photo: Twitter

Twitter turns 10 years old today — with the company having been founded back in the halcyon days of March 2006, when V For Vendetta had just arrived in theaters, James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” was being played on repeat by every radio station, and the iPhone was still an excited rumor on tech sites.

#ManyHappyReturnsOnYourBirthday.

HTC has started teasing the One M10. Photo: HTC

Not to let LG and Samsung get away with all the spotlight this week for launching their flagship phones of 2016, HTC has posted a One M10 teaser image on Twitter. The teaser image features the hashtag #powerof10, which confirms that HTC is indeed teasing the One M10 here.

I’m not famous enough to lose promoted tweets. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Our Twitter timelines have become swamped with ads and sponsored tweets, but if you’re famous enough, you don’t have to see them.

To provide its “VIP” users with a greater experience, and to prevent them from wandering to rival services, Twitter has all but stopped injecting ads into their timelines.

Amazon’s new Fire tablet looks hot. Photo: Evan Blass

Despite scaling back its hardware division in a big way, Amazon is hard at work on a new Fire tablet with a 10-inch display that just leaked out ahead of its official unveiling.

Twitter is now a better place to chat. Photo: Twitter

Twitter has finally delivered on its promise to remove the 140-character limit from direct messages, so you’ll no longer have to send several of them when you’re feeling chatty. The new 10,000-character limit will be available on the web, and in first- and third-party Twitter apps.