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- December 28th, 2009
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Not So Lazy: The Sunday Times
The promise of technology is to help people help themselves. At Twitter, we are united in our belief that software has the ability to augment humanity in productive and meaningful ways. For us, it has…
- December 23rd, 2009
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Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St
In August, we previewed expanded location support for developers. Last month we launched our Geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients. When current location is added to twee…
- December 22nd, 2009
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SMS Tweets for Telstra Australia
Today we have launched Twitter SMS in Australia with our partner Telstra. As always, it is free to receive notifications and standard text messaging rates apply to sending. It's the same pricing as…
- December 18th, 2009
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Update on Last Night\'s DNS Disruption
Domain Name System or DNS is an Internet protocol used to translate IP addresses into domain names so instead of typing in a long string of numbers we can enter urls like www.twitter.com into a browse…
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DNS Disruption
As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications w…
- December 17th, 2009
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What do Indonesia and Ireland have in common?
They both have carriers that launched Twitter's Text Messaging service today. We are excited to announce that our friends at 3 Indonesia and O2 Ireland have both made the Twitter SMS service availabl…
- December 16th, 2009
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Was gibt\'s Neues?
Deutsch ist eine der weitverbreitetsten Sprachen der EU und ist die letzte Sprache, die wir im Jahr 2009 auf Twitter.com einführen.Mit der unentbehrlichen Hilfe unserer vielen fantastischen Übersetz…
- December 15th, 2009
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Top Twitter Trends of 2009
My name is Abdur and I'm part of the Research team here at Twitter. As Chief Scientist, it's my job to interpret data so we can understand and appreciate how Twitter is constantly evolving. Since it's…
- December 14th, 2009
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A feature test with businesses
My name is Anamitra and I work in the product team at Twitter. For some time now, businesses of all sizes have been using Twitter to deepen their engagement with customers. The simple features that Tw…
- December 10th, 2009
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Ed ecco l\'italiano!
Siamo emozionati perché oggi con il lancio della versione italiana del nostro sito diventiamo ancora di più una piattaforma di comunicazione globale. Come sempre, desideriamo ringraziare tutti i tra…
- December 7th, 2009
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A Tool for Business
It’s not uncommon to stumble upon a store that encourages its customers to follow them on Twitter. Without even looking I see this happening more and more, which says a lot about the wonderfully sim…
- December 3rd, 2009
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Takeout dogfood
Hi all, this is @leland, user experience lead on the @twittermobile team. I wanted to share a little bit of what we've been working on and thinking about.It’s probably no secret that Twitter has an…
- December 1st, 2009
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AIDS is Preventable and Treatable
Over the course of several meetings with the dedicated people behind (RED) we have learned a lot about fighting AIDS in Africa. Personally, I was struck by how effective treatment can be—someone on…
- November 25th, 2009
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Movember!
Once a year there is a very special and potentially awkward event: Movember. Here's what it's all about according to Movember.com:Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highli…
- November 19th, 2009
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Nouvelle saveur : Twitter en Français!
Avec l'ajout de la version espagnole du site le mois dernier, de nombreuses personnes ont rejoint les conversations sur Twitter. De plus en plus de personnes twittent en dehors des États-Unis et nous…
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Think Globally, Tweet Locally
In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.This release is unique in th…
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Refreshed Privacy Policy
As part of rolling out geotagging today we've updated our privacy policy to explicitly include geotagging and to describe the public nature of most of what people post to Twitter. We've tried to keep…
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What\'s Happening?
Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, "What are y…
- November 16th, 2009
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Another First in the UK
The UK has had an outsized cultural impact on the world. From music to sports to literature... and now – MMS with Twitter.Today, not only has Orange UK turned on Twitter SMS, but it has added a firs…
- November 10th, 2009
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The Perfect Combination
As our platform team works with more and more developers to expand access to information, users are able to tweet and read tweets in expanding ways across the web. Today, LinkedIn launched a smart int…
- November 9th, 2009
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SMS for AXIS Indonesia
As director of mobile products and partnerships at Twitter, one thing that always makes me smile is the growing demand for sending and receiving tweets via SMS. The ease of composing a text message co…
- November 5th, 2009
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Retweet Limited Rollout
We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting twee…
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Get to the Point: Twitter Trends
As Twitter grows and the number of tweets each day continues to astound us, we’ve noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics. Trends began as a u…
- November 3rd, 2009
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¿Qué estás haciendo?
A principios de mes invitamos a algunos voluntarios a traducir Twitter en más idiomas. Gracias a estos entusiastas voluntarios hispanoparlantes, Twitter está ahora oficialmente disponible en españo…
- October 30th, 2009
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There\'s a List for That
We’re putting the finishing touches on our new Lists feature and we're really excited about the folks who have already taken a lot of time creating awesome lists. From the @time list of funny people…
- October 21st, 2009
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@google Nice!
Our friends down in Mountain View want to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A fast growing amount of information is coursing through Twitter very quickly,…
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Bing Goes The Dynamite!
We very firmly believe the open exchange of information can have a positive impact on the world. Every day we see evidence supporting this belief. Most Twitter accounts are public for a good reason—…
- October 15th, 2009
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Good Wine and Books
We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right direction to make a difference as both a technology and a b…
- October 14th, 2009
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Hello, Bharti Airtel
Twitter is committed to fostering the open exchange of information because we passionately believe it can have a positive global impact. When people can exchange information freely and publicly they a…
- October 13th, 2009
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Help us nail spammers
Today we've added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter.Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile th…
- October 8th, 2009
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Coming Soon: Twitter in More Languages
Photo: Sandy's PhotosTwitter is currently available only in English and Japanese. With some help, we will soon be rolling out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish. These languages are comm…
- October 4th, 2009
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Join the \'Philanthropic Throwdown\'
Donorschoose.org is running a Social Media Challenge and it's easy to get involved. You can pick a Twitterer to support or you can create a giving page of your own. Last year this program raised $270,…
- September 30th, 2009
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Soon to Launch: Lists
My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I'm the project lead on Lists, a new feature we're testing with a small subset of users. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example,…
- September 25th, 2009
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New Twitter Funding
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.…
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New Twitter Funding
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.…
- September 23rd, 2009
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One More Thing: Twitter+AOL
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…
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One More Thing: Twitter+AOL
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…
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MySpace Gets Twitterized!
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…
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MySpace Gets Twitterized!
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…
- September 14th, 2009
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Four More Themes
If you like using Twitter.com as your Twitter client, then you might be interested to know that we've added four more themes to the design collection. We've also updated the default theme and avatar t…
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Four More Themes
If you like using Twitter.com as your Twitter client, then you might be interested to know that we've added four more themes to the design collection. We've also updated the default theme and avatar t…
- September 10th, 2009
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Twitter's New Terms of Service
At the start, critics often said, "Twitter is fun, but it's not useful." At one point @ev responded dryly with, "Neither is ice cream." Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized poten…
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Twitter\'s New Terms of Service
At the start, critics often said, "Twitter is fun, but it's not useful." At one point @ev responded dryly with, "Neither is ice cream." Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized poten…
- August 27th, 2009
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140: The Twitter Conference LA
Alex Payne, Ryan Sarver myself, and a whole bunch of Twitter enthusiasts ranging from businesses to celebrities will be gathering at a Twitter conference in Los Angeles later next month. If you're int…
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140: The Twitter Conference LA
Alex Payne, Ryan Sarver myself, and a whole bunch of Twitter enthusiasts ranging from businesses to celebrities will be gathering at a Twitter conference in Los Angeles later next month. If you're int…
- August 26th, 2009
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Twitter Sesh
Check out this funny video Ben Stiller (@redhourBen) made with Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest). "Yeah, why don't you come on Idol because that will help me. You showing up on American Idol. Again."
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Twitter Sesh
Check out this funny video Ben Stiller (@redhourBen) made with Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest). "Yeah, why don't you come on Idol because that will help me. You showing up on American Idol. Again."
- August 25th, 2009
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Twitter Wit
There's a new book out called Twitter Wit featuring "the Funniest Tweets of All Time." When Nick Douglas asked us about his ambitious plan to curate this collection it sounded good provided the right…
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Twitter Wit
There's a new book out called Twitter Wit featuring "the Funniest Tweets of All Time." When Nick Douglas asked us about his ambitious plan to curate this collection it sounded good provided the right…
- August 20th, 2009
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Location, Location, Location
Twitter platform developers have been doing innovative work with location for some time despite having access to only a rudimentary level of API support. Most of the location-based projects we see are…
