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How to Speak Twitter April 03, 2009

A TWITTER GLOSSARY At Reply, or "@reply": A direct tweet sent to another Twitter user. Dweet: Tweet sent while drunk Hash Tag: The "#" sign. Allows Twitter users to ...

Twitter and Gender June 02, 2009

Posted on Conversation Starter: June 1, 2009 2:15 PM Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about ...

Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet June 17, 2009

Media across the globe have been focusing on a "Twitter Revolution" in Iran as hundreds of thousands of street protestors purportedly mobilized their demonstrations ...

The Trouble with Twitter August 18, 2008

Twitter's business model is starting to show. An early sign came in April, when the popular microblogging service launched in Japan and the home page for every ...

Is Twitter Worth a Billion Bucks? September 24, 2009

Twitter's home crowd can be pretty tough. When reports emerged on Sept. 24 that the microblogging service was close to securing $100 million in funding that valued the...

Twitter's Blackout: Bad for Business August 06, 2009

Pitching products and talking to customers on Twitter has become so easy for companies, many may forget how they ever did without it. They got a sharp reminder on Aug....

In Business, Early Birds Twitter Most Effectively October 08, 2009

Like so many others, Lionel Menchaca, Dell Computer's chief blogger, thought Twitter was "fairly worthless for business" when he first looked at it in March 2007, but ...

Twitter's Innovation Drought June 05, 2009

I love Twitter. I'm in the minority of users who check it and comment at least a couple of times each day. I even have two accounts—one personal (@ericjackson), ...

Does Twitter Work as a Music Discovery Engine, Too? October 04, 2009

Twitter is a remarkably flexible application—an efficient news service, a way to keep up with friends, a replacement for RSS feeds, a resource for links worth ...

Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover March 01, 2009

Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company's directors and largest investors says....

Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter May 08, 2009

Few would dispute that Twitter is the hottest social medium around. The microblogging application, which enables anyone with Internet access to issue short public ...

How a Tiny Startup Used Twitter to Find App Store Success August 20, 2009

With some 58,000 iPhone applications in the iTunes Store, developers face an uphill battle when it comes to building a user base for their applications. But thanks to ...

Twitter Diplomacy June 18, 2009

"Sorry, my first tweet not pleasant; dust storm in Baghdad today & yet another suicide bomb. awful reminder that it is not yet all fine here." — First Twitter ...

Twitter: Friends for Sale April 14, 2008

When it's all said and done, Andrew Baron might not even sell his Twitter account. But whether he does or not, Baron has stirred up plenty of questions about the ...

Twitter Now Knows Where You Are August 23, 2009

By Juan Carlos Perez Miami - Twitter is jumping on the geolocation bandwagon, with plans to let users geocode their posts and make the information accessible both on ...

Is Twitter Pimping Porn to Family Users? September 01, 2009

Back in March, I wrote a column about how Twitter is a closer competitor to Facebook than MySpace is. Twitter and Facebook are more utility than media sites, I argued....

The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision March 05, 2009

Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph showing Facebook gaining on MySpace in some made-up ...

Building a Better Twitter November 07, 2008

In March, engineers at the music software startup Fuzz Artists began designing a tool that would help independent musicians distribute their songs virally, online. But...

Tr.im URL Shortener Blames Twitter for Demise August 10, 2009

By Gregg Keizer Framingham - The Mac and iPhone (AAPL) developer that's been running the tr.im URL-shortening service called it quits Sunday, saying it was shutting ...

Twitter Gets Help from Bezos June 26, 2008

When the news broke on June 24 that microblogging sensation Twitter picked up new venture investors, including Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, the company—as ...