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We all know how Facebook responds to threats. A few months back, when Twitter’s traffic was spiking and there were constant stories around how Facebook was simply a neat social network with a robust photo album feature tacked on, they quickly moved to add in their real time news feature, which instantly made their [...]
Lots of buzz around real time search these days, and lots of venture dollars to boot. During the past presidential election, I had what was perhaps my best exposure to the possibilities of real time search with election.twitter.com (down now obviously). The premise of the service was to stream (in real-time) any and all tweets [...]
Check out the graph for yourself:
It’s pretty clear to see that the last month has seen Twitter’s growth curtail to almost nothing. This of course is very strange based on the rampant growth that the service saw in the months prior. Om Malik over at GigaOm had some interesting ideas on this (actually [...]
As usual, it’s been a hectic beginning of the week in the tech world:
At the forefront is the reports that Apple is the latest suitor for Twitter, a role that Facebook failed at, and Google and Microsoft have been rumored as potentially being. Funny enough, I heard this rumor this morning from @Tweetmeme (via @gawker)…haha.
The [...]
WOAH! From Techcrunch this evening comes a crazy rumor:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/
Obviously this is huge – We’ll see what comes of it. As we all know, these rumors come and go quite often, but this one just sort of feels like it’s going to happen after Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted at the possibility of “an acquisition” on [...]
It’s no secret that Twitter is still trying to figure out how to make money. You’ll see from this article that the founders of the company readily admit that fact. New ventures such as ExecTweets and MarchTweetness are good ideas for niche sites that get sponsored by companies in conjunction with an advertising partner (Federated [...]
Very interesting commentary on the birth of Twitter here from @Dom – someone who was present when the idea went down. Very intriguing read:
http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/
