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Archive for September, 2009

We’ve been hearing about “Project Retweet” for a while, since Twitter announced the upcoming API change in August. “Project Retweet” is Twitter’s plan to integrate retweets (RT) into the Twitter architecture natively, as opposed to the current home-brewed implementation.

Thing is, we’re not…

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The flaw that many people fall into when analyzing Twitter’s strategy is assuming that Twitter views itself as being in competition with other social networks like Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. It’s not a difficult mistake to make. Clearly Facebook believes that they’re in direct competition with…

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After I wrote earlier this week about some steps to protect yourself from Facebook identity thieves, I got a few questions about how to tweak and customize your Facebook security and privacy settings. It’s actually a lot easier than you think – the problem is that Facebook doesn’t make it…

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There’s a lot of talk today about our financing. Yesterday we closed a significant round of funding with a group of investment firms that we’re excited to publicly thank: Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Morgan Stanley.

It was important to us that we find investment partners who share our vision for building a company of enduring value. Twitter’s journey has just begun and we are committed to building the best product, technology, and company possible. I’m proud of the team we’ve built so far and I’m confident in the future we’ll build together.

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Like we said earlier today, people should read or write tweets wherever they prefer and there’s a large portion of Internet users who prefer AOL. As a proud partner in AOL Lifestream, Twitter will be smoothly integrated into AIM, Bebo, and AOL.com. Some of your other favorite services like YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and Facebook are also part of the action. Did I mention that our Platform team has working overtime lately? We love those guys!

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There are tens of thousands of mobile, desktop, and web applications creating a variety of ways to interact with Twitter on your favorite device or service. We think people should read or write tweets wherever they prefer so we work with social networks, mobile networks, television networks, and search engines to make that happen. This week, fans of MySpace have started taking their @usernames with them by syncing their accounts with Twitter.

When you sync your MySpace account with Twitter, you’ll be able to update your status as you normally would from your home page, status and mood page, or mobile phone. When you update your status on MySpace it will also update Twitter—and, the reverse is true. We’re already seeing many accounts syncing up and we expect more to follow. Kudos to Ryan Sarver and the Twitter platform team for helping to get this worked out with our friends at MySpace.

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We’ve been hearing a lot about Facebook identity thieves, social networking, privacy and personal information lately – especially in light of Facebook’s recent decision to strengthen its privacy policies after the Canadian government found that Facebook’s prevailing privacy policies were “woefully…

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We’ve been hearing a lot about Facebook identity thieves, social networking, privacy and personal information lately – especially in light of Facebook’s recent decision to strengthen its privacy policies after the Canadian government found that Facebook’s prevailing privacy policies were “woefully…

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For those of you old enough to remember the first Twitpocalypse, you’ll remember the horror – people rioting in the streets, overturning police cars, burning tires; you’ll remember the panicked runs on groceries, fuel and water; you’ll remember the rampant, unbridled terror as millions of people…

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Viorel Spinu, co-founder of Sety, wrote in today letting us know about this twitter story last Friday in Bucharest, Romania.

"Friday, the 18th of September 2009, the first auto-tweet has been sent
from a helium balloon during the local WebStock IT NewMedia conference.

As an example of…

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