Twitter is testing out a new feature that would help users find others who share their interests.
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Twitter announced that it had acquired Cloudhopper, a Seattle text-messaging start-up. Evan Williams, Twitter’s chief executive said at Chirp that there is “untapped potential” with Twitter text-message use.
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According to Twitter blog, Twitter is launching the first phase (looks like this Wednesday) of Promoted Tweets from Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America. Others will follow. Users will start to see Promoted Tweets at the top of some Twitter search results pages.
in the next phase, Twitter plans to allow [...]
The debate over distracted drivers ramped up a notch on Thursday as Ford Motor Co. announced technology to let computers read their Twitter feeds to them while behind the wheel.
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Twitter said Wednesday that it had acquired Mixer Labs, which has developed a location-tracking tool called GeoAPI.
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The social-networking site will get about $25 million from agreements with Google and Microsoft, enough to push it into the black for the first time, sources say. Twitter Inc. will make about $25 million from Internet-search deals with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced in October, enough to push the site into profitability, people familiar [...]
Twitter was the target of a cyberattack Thursday that disrupted its microblogging service for many users, especially those accessing it directly through the company’s Web site.
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Iran’s controversial presidential election was the top Twitter topic in 2009, according to the wildly popular microblogging service.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Earthquake experts have found a new way to “follow” earthquakes in real-time: Twitter.
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