Acceptance Speeches: The Tweets Are In! (8)
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MG Siegler over at VentureBeat saw our post yesterday about Twitter activity surrounding Governor Palin's acceptance speech and asked if we could share more along those lines. Here is a graph showing Twitter mentions of each presidential and vice presidential candidate during their acceptance speeches at the DNC and RNC. McCain seems to be topping the chart but that's not necessarily a good thing—tweets can be both positive and negative.
The Palin Peak (14)
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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, ...
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Andrew said:
Most of the tweets I read were pretty negative, e.g. "WTF is she talking about?!" :P
Trimming the Sails (7)
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I wanted to take a moment to share more than 140 characters about Twitter's continued reliability improvements and how we've made it here.I've always respected a good sense of pacing. It's easy to be fast and loose, but it takes a certain discipline, foresight, and patience to guide something through the right way. For most of Twitter's early days, pacing could be considered an unattainable luxury. Our effort started with a bang and quickly accelerated ...
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
Making Progress on Spam (11)
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We've previously discussed our efforts to defend Twitter against spam. We are making progress—there are bugs while we find our way—but we're making progress too. Recently, we've seen significant impact by introducing limits around how many accounts can be followed on Twitter under certain conditions. These limits are designed to not affect the vast majority of users. However, some people (who are not spammers) have (and will) run into them. We want to shed some ...
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 Your Dollars (10)
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Our friends over at Wesabe, a great finance app, have added Twitter integration that helps you track where your dollars go: "...you can now add transactions to your Wesabe cash account through Twitter. This is a great way to keep track of you spending on the go — just text Twitter the details, and it will show up automatically in your accounts. Or, use whatever other Twitter client you like."
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Min Liu said:
on a side note: iphone app to split restaurant bill --> not hard
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Ralph said:
This is a terrible idea.
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!
Big Change in Protected-User Model (14)
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This week we rolled out a change that most people won't notice but for those who do it's a pretty big deal. The change effects those who choose to protect their updatesi.e., only allow those whom they approve follow them. Previously, if you were protected you had to follow anyone whom you allowed to follow you. Similarly, if you followed someone, you were granting them permission to follow you. This didn't really make sense in ...
