The Palin Peak (6)
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Governor Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention last night corresponded with a dramatic increase of tweets per second. This graph represents hourly update activity on Twitter over two days this week. Like hurricane Gustav on Monday, and Google's new browser launch on Tuesday, Palin's official nomination acceptance on Wednesday is another example of Twitter being used in real-time during a massively shared event. We continue to see increased activity during storms, earthquakes, breaking news, ...
HuffPo Twittering from the DNC (3)
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The folks over at The Huffington Post have put together a Twitter account updating live from the Democratic National Convention. You can visit their site or follow them on Twitter.
Twitter Blog: Turning Up The Heat On Spam (26)
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Twitter is not in the inflatable boat business contrary to this week's flavor of spam. Despite the fact that there are apparently lots of "surprisingly attractive" inflatable boats available for financing, these updates and other spammy accounts are unwanted junk affecting good user experience. Inflatable boats will sink as we work to fry all forms of Twitter spam. So, what are we doing?Suspended AccountsToday, we launched a new admin tool which allows us to more ...
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Jess said:
Spam Marshal, eh?
Mobilizing His Followers (6)
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This AP story points out that Mr. Obama is harnessing the real-time power of Twitter to mobilize his followers to vote. I can just picture the tweet come November: "Hoping you'll go make me president—right now!"Obama's campaign has used the Internet to boost fundraising, building upon Howard Dean's Web strategy in 2004, but the campaign's use of text messaging has the potential to mobilize voters in a new way.Obama's campaign has encouraged supporters to sign ...
MySpace and Twitter (1)
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The folks over at MySpace chose Twitter along with eBay, Yahoo!, and Photobucket as launch partners for a new Data Availability initiative announced today. We're excited because it adds value to Twitter—after all, finding friends to follow on Twitter makes it much better.We're still exploring all the cool stuff we'll be able to do with this Data Availability. We'll keep you posted as we take advantage to make improvements to Twitter features and functionality.
Alex Payne, API Lead (9)
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The Twitter API has grown over the past 2 years and become very important to Twitter as well as developers who build on our services. This has all happened despite the fact that we could only spare one engineer to work on the API about half of his time. Things are changing.Alex Payne has been leading much of our API development since he started working on Twitter in March, 2007. As part of a larger ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
This is a good role for him - I worry he was taking on too much core development before. Good for Alex.
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Clint Ecker said:
Congrats Al3x!
Some SMS Perspective (31)
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On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number. The blue in the chart above illustrates the percent of outgoing SMS we stopped sending. 2% of our user base consumed 4% of our outbound SMS over the UK number at a price which disproportionately impacted overall operational cost. Nevertheless, this 2% is important to us and the UK number remains active for incoming SMS. We send out a large amount ...
Here's the link to the twitter blog re: sms (42)
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Let's start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you have been receiving SMS updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, you'll notice that they've stopped and you may want to explore some of the alternatives we're suggesting. Note: Updating via our UK number remains fully supported and these changes do not affect users in Canada, India, or the United States. Before we ...
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Peter Warnock said:
brilliant! i buy sms in bulk because of twitter
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orie said:
Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number.
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dewitt said:
"We took a risk hoping to bring more nations onboard and more mobile operators around to our way of thinking but we've arrived at a point where the responsible thing to do is slow our costs and take a different approach" -Biz Stone, explaining candidly why Twitter is dropping outbound SMS support in most geographies.
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Linden said:
Great. No more cell phone contact to my buddies on Twitter. It made me feel a little closer to home. Hopefully they figure something out with Germany soon.
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Jenna said:
I agree with @allen - Really sucks.
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Allen said:
Sucks
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ThiagoCampezzi said:
Twitter vai parar de enviar updates de amigos para todos os países do mundo, exceto Estados Unidos, Canadá e Índia. É isso mesmo, o Brasil também foi excluído. Tudo (óbvio) graças aos custos altíssimos de envio de mensagens SMS pra tanta gente.
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Mook® said:
no more dm, no more.. why dont they just limit to 250sms/ month (instead of the current 250sms/ week)? ;pps. this is the first time i saw m.slandr.net and cellity. they look nice (to try... haha).
The Gray Lady Is All A-Twitter (25)
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The New York Times has been on a Twitter tear lately. They've got a good collection of accounts that make for some nice variety. Some of the accounts are written straight-up by writers, editors, and bloggers at the Times and others deliver just the Section Headlines. Here's the complete collection if you want to add a little NYT to your Twitter timeline. New York Times Writers using Twitter @themoment @CityRoom @brianstelter @TheLede @TheCaucus @DotEarth Follow ...
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Min Liu said:
if the newspaper industry were to be gone tomorrow, nyt would be the last one putting up a legit fight. i'm willing to donate $$ to them to keep them alive.
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The Big Guy said:
to all you PR folks out there on twitter...here's a good list of the NYT twitterers
What Will You Be Doing 080808? (15)
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A fun project has emerged out of the Chinese community on Twitter. The idea is to share what you're doing during the opening day of the Olympic Games. To participate, just add #080808 to your tweet and to watch, just visit Twitter Search. If you want to dig a little deeper, you can customize your profile pic by downloading the photoshop kit on this blog.
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rorowe said:
I won't be evil, but this will definitely be something to watch if you're curious about Darfur, Burma, the pollution issue, etc.
Internet Users Take Note (2)
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Malicious Software or "Malware" is rampant on the web. Some experts have estimated 1 in 10 web pages contain malicious code that could infect a user's PC. While Twitter can't actually host malware, it does allow hyperlinks and is therefore not immune to those who would attempt to point others directly towards malware elsewhere on the web.We've already removed the Twitter accounts being discussed today in news articles and blogs and we'll continue along these ...
Twitter Blog: Twitter Video (25)
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How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.Several weeks ago we invited folks in New York City and San Francisco to share with us a little about how and why they use Twitter. We talked to lots of interesting people. Alas, we had to edit way down for time so only a few people made it into the final cut. We plan to put this material somewhere on our site for potential new ...
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Marilyn said:
for those non-tweeters out there, maybe this helps?
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Zeus said:
This is fantastic, real people talking about how they use twitter and why...
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Ian said:
Worth the watch!
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/twitter-as-news-wire.html (63)
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Twitter is increasingly being described as a personal news-wire—shared world events like this morning's earthquake near Los Angeles support the definition. This chart illustrates the beginning of this morning's earthquake followed seconds later by the first Twitter update from Los Angeles. About four minutes later, official news began to emerge about the quake. By then, "Earthquake" was trending on Twitter Search with thousands of updates and more on the way.Many news agencies get their feed ...
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Ben said:
this is one of the implications of twitter i find to be most interesting and useful. twitter has informed me in one way or another of pretty much every major news event before traditional news outlets since i've been using it.
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Tim Bounds said:
More and more, twitter is becoming the place where I first hear of breaking news.
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Adam said:
seriously, enough already, we get it. Good thing your "unplanned maintenance" didn't take place during the Quake or this post wouldn't have been possible. /rant
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Eebs said:
I definitely heard about it through Twitter long before any news popped up. Tons of people tweeted at once.
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Jed said:
still can't believe i didn't notice this earthquake
Where Are My Followers? (11)
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Recently, some people began noticing a decline in their following and follower numbers. We investigated and determined this was caused by an error during a database upgrade. We'll be restoring followers throughout the day to those who were affected and keeping the status blog and Get Satisfaction forum updated with specifics.Please note that this is unrelated to our ongoing spam initiative as some folks were wondering. Twitter fights spam by putting rules in place to ...
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Fourbin said:
See that - not spam related. Take that RWW
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Ian said:
Hmmmmmmmm whatever the reason its a cock up
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Adam said:
What if I don't want 'em back?
Follower Stats by TwitterCounter (15)
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Here's a fun new application from Dutch entrepreneur Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and friends that will appeal to anyone who likes simple stats. TwitterCounter is a free service for folks who want to track and share the number of followers they have on Twitter.
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sirmikester said:
The user rankings on this site a fascinating... looks like the TWIT guys are really popular on TWITTER :)
Twitter Blog: An Ongoing Battle (43)
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Because following another account on Twitter is something you must do with intent we don't see the same kind of spam normally associated with email—namely, lots of unsolicited Twitter updates in your timeline. However, Twitter has grown popular and thus attracted those who would try to manipulate various features to redirect traffic or gain some other advantage.We are actively engaged in working to defeat the variety of spam that has made its way to Twitter. ...
