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• Twitter is Growing Like a Weed

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 15:00 in microblogging, twitter, twitter+growth

  Mashable reports that Twitter is growing like a weed. The Mashable post cites new figures from Nielsen Online that show Twitter has grew 422% from August, 2007 to August, 2008. The latest numbers a...

• Plurks Let's Users Mute Unwanted Plurks

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 23:15 in microblogging, plurk, plurk+responses, plurking

  Plurk - the microblogging service that is gainging popularity for its easy to follow discussion threads and horizontal timeline - has given its users the ability to mute discussions. The feature was ...

• Plurk Adds Twitter Friend Import Tool

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 17:03 in microblogging, plurk, twitter

  Twitter's woes have continued this week. Plurk is a unique microblogging alternative. To attract more Twitter users Plurk has added a Twitter import tool that tells you which of your Twitter friends ...

• Plurk Offers Horizontal Microblogging

  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 in microblogging, plurk, plurking

  You can microblog sideways on a new service called Plurk. As The Inquisitr reports the early adapters are already flocking to the latest microblogging tool. Posts on Plurk (plurks) flow from left to r...

• Twitter Connects Popular Twitter Users to Twitter Problems

  Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 17:21 in microblogging, robert+scoble, twitter+uptime

  Bloggers here, here, and here are discussing Twitter developer Alex Payne's recent comment that Twitter is hit the hardest when popular Twitter users "perform a number of actions in rapid succession."...

• TinyURL Outage Breaks Links on Twitter

  Posted on Monday November 19th, 2007 at 14:50 in microblogging, tinyurl, tinyurl+outage, twitter+links, urltea

  Twitter.com has been working consistently over the last couple days but the redirection tools Twitter users rely on have not been. Today, the popular TinyURL.com link shortener and redirection servic...

• Google Buys Jaiku. Twitterers Tweet About It

  Posted on Tuesday October 9th, 2007 at 16:51 in google+jaiku, Jaiku, microblogging, twittering

  Google has acquired Jaiku. Jaiku is a microblogging and mobile blogging that competes with Twitter. Google probably wants Jaiku for its mobile features and there are rumors Google may use it with an ...

• Twitter Gets Funding

  Posted on Saturday August 4th, 2007 at 22:15 in fred+wilson, microblogging, twitter+funding, twitter+inc, union+square+ventures

  Twitter, Inc., the company behind the popular microblogging and communication tool called Twitter, recently received an infusion of venture capital funding (see here, here, here, here and here). Rex H...