Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced the launch of a new, uniquely tailored app for Windows 8 and Windows RT devices.

Following the data request trend which Internet search giant Google has set in the last two years, popular microblogging site Twitter has also decided to release biannual reports about the user-information demands by US and foreign governments.

With LinkedIn and Twitter recently ending their three-year cost-posting partnership, business network LinkedIn said in an announcement that it will no longer integrate tweets from the popular microblogging site.

On Thursday, popular microblogging site Twitter witnessed two service outages, with affected users from all over the world reporting significant down-time and slow service across the Twitter website as well as mobile applications. The service has now resumed for all the affected users.

In what, according to Microsoft, is the "most significant" Bing update ever since the release of the company's search engine three years back, Bing has been given a notable overhaul such that it now boasts integration with popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

In a Tuesday report, hacking news aggregator Airdemon. net revealed that nearly 55,000 Twitter accounts had been attacked by hackers seemingly linked to the Anonymous hacktivist group. The microblogging site, however, downplayed the reports of the data breach, saying that the hackers’ claims of the attack on the site were largely bogus.

In a move which marks Twitter's attempts to fight spammers, the popular microblogging service Thursday took the legal route against five websites, accusing them of creating tools to automate posts to Twitter and follow people on the site.