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Archive for April, 2010

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Twitter made a few big announcement during last week’s Chirp conference, one of the largest of which was the announcement that they’re re-building the Twitter API, creating a feature called "annotations" which will let Twitter developers attach arbitrary extra information to…

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 Here is another browser option for you and your Android.  

Skyfire 2.0.  Here are some highlights:

- Flash support

- Pinch to zoom

- Visual multi-tabs (8 of them)

- Video service 

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 Nokia is no slouch when it comes to sheer volume of handset sales, in fact they are the largest with a market share of about 37% of global handsets.  The vast majority of these phones are lower level phones or "feature phones" however.  Basically, they have…

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Facebook’s new Instant Personalization features, launched last week despite the protests of a significant proportion of Facebook’s user base, have already caught the attention of the United States Senate – and not in a good way.

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Let’s start this article out with a simple truth: Facebook will not charge a fee starting in July. In fact, Facebook will almost certainly NEVER charge a fee.

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This Friday April 30th it’s Giants vs Rockies at San Francisco and we’re throwing our first ever official baseball tweetup together with the Giants at AT&T Park. Lots of us from Twitter HQ are going to walk over to the stadium to meet before the game and we would love for you to join us! Tickets for the tweetup plus the game are less expensive than the regular game tickets, and $2 from each ticket purchased will be donated to one of our local partners, Room to Read.

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Last week Facebook announced the launch of a new set of Facebook Connect features that allow instant "personalization" of your browsing experience at websites like Docs.com and Pandora. The idea is that if you’re already logged into Facebook and you visit those sites (and, in…

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Malaria threatens one half of the world’s population, resulting in 350 million cases each year and nearly one million deaths on an annual basis—many of them children. World Malaria day is this Sunday, and the impact of organizations devoted to the cause has already begun. In partnership with Malaria No More and The Case Foundation, Twitter is offering a way to help put an end to this disease. You can help starting today with just one tweet.

A worker in Tanzania inspects mosquito nets before delivery.

When you send a tweet about Malaria and pledge your donation of $10, you are providing a life-saving bed net to protect against this mosquito-borne infections disease. Your generous donation will be matched by The Case Foundation, providing the opportunity to double the impact of each tweet. For more information about Twitter and the fight against Malaria, visit our Hope140 site dedicated to helping all of us become a force for good.

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Twitter was inspired by SMS and we continue to embrace this simple but ubiquitous technology. In fact, Twitter’s 140 character limit was designed specifically to allow for any tweet to be read in its entirety whether you’re using a rudimentary mobile phone, or a more sophisticated Internet enabled device.

Over the last eight months we have been working with a startup called Cloudhopper to become one of the highest volume SMS programs in the world—Twitter processes close to a billion SMS tweets per month and that number is growing around the world from Indonesia to Australia, the UK, the US, and beyond.

To help us further grow and scale our SMS service, we are happy to announce the acquisition of Cloudhopper, a messaging infrastructure company that enables Twitter to connect directly to mobile carrier networks in countries all over the planet. Please join us in welcoming both Joe and Kristin to Twitter’s mobile team.

Local businesses use the power of Twitter SMS

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Facebook announced at the f8 conference this week the launch of the latest version of the Facebook platform, including notably the new Facebook Connect features that they’d previously announced via their Facebook blog.

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