Twitter rocks on Blackberry
Sunday, November 30th, 2008When it comes to hammering out short bursts of text to get your message across, BlackBerry owners and enthusiasts are no stranger to the concept. We are are constantly tap tap tapping on our qwerty keyboards and sending these types of messages to every contact on our list. It is to the point for many [...]
Facebook not buying Twitter
Monday, November 24th, 2008Several rumors related to a possible aquisition of Twitter by Facebook owners turned to be wrong today. Well, some say that there were some talks, but Twitter wants at least 500 million dollars, far too much for Facebook, wich right now is very short on cash.
Twitpay - micropayment service for Twitter
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Twitpay it’a a new service built on top of Twitter by a third party developper. It is interesting both on its own right and as an example of the way the Twitter ecosystem continues to grow. You may remember a number of attempts to launch micropayment services a few years back - none of which [...]
Zend Framework 1.7 now supports Twitter
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Zend Technologies is releasing the 1.7 update of Zend Framework (ZF), the open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and developed with the goal of simplifying web development. There are many improvements, but this includes Twitter support. In version 1.7 Twitter can be used within a Zend-based application instead of requiring the [...]
Bloomberg: Twitter to charge companies
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008Twitter, the wildly popular microblogging service, may be forced to charge companies for access to its users, founder Evan Williams told Bloomberg News. Williams, who recently replaced Jack Dorsey as CEO, said he wanted to start weaning the company off venture capital, especially as the economic climate sours.
Twitter kills “Reply, users move to another site
Monday, June 30th, 2008Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had to take its “Reply” feature down when the service started to slow on Friday. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington notes that Twitter has taken to disabling certain features to keep its infrastructure from failing completely, having successfully tried the tactic out during Apple’s recent WWDC keynote. “But here’s the problem,” Arrington [...]
Twitter back
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Service went down around 3:30 p.m. PDT and lasted over two hours. Twitter resumed normal service just before 6 p.m. PDT Thursday following an unscheduled outage, the company confirmed on its blog.
James Buck, freed by Twitter
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Last weekend CNN lead with a big story about James Buck, a graduate student in journalism from the University of California-Berkeley who was arrested last month in Mahalla, Egypt while covering an anti-government protest. Thinking quickly, James was able to send a one-word Twitter update: “Arrested.”
Twhirl bought by Seesmic
Friday, April 4th, 2008Seesmic acquired Twhirl, the number one Twitter client, representing more than 7% of all Tweets posted daily. With this acquisition, users of Seesmic, Twhirl and Twitter soon will be able to start video conversations straight from their desktops, without going to a browser. The leading desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service, Twhirl offers many [...]
Secret of Twitter
Monday, March 24th, 2008Robert Scoble writes about the secret or Twitter, what makes is addictive and why it draws so much attention. He says that you should be intrested not by how many people follow you, but how many people you follow…
