Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter was created in 2006 and rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users in 2012 and 340 million tweets per day. In 2013 Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites, and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet.”
Apache Mesos co-creator and former Twitter lead engineer Benjamin Hindman is joining the startup Mesosphere, which provides commercial backing for the open-source Mesos resource management system. Hindman will help Mesosphere build… Read more »
Facebook’s James Pearce came on the Structure Show this week to talk about how Facebook handles open source projects, and how the new TODO group it’s part of is going help… Read more »
What happens when brands become media entities in their own right, with all the same tools for reaching readers or viewers? Journalists and traditional media outlets have to try harder to… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, Facebook’s James Pearce and how the new TODO group can help people better maintain and manage open source software after it’s released. Read more »
The speed with which several otherwise unconnected Twitter users — on different sides of the country — managed to identify the suspects in a brutal attack on two gay men in… Read more »
The 64-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) products will help users, most likely in emerging markets, save money on data without needing to install anything. Read more »
As the legal budgets of traditional news rooms keep shrinking, they have been unable to fight the public interest battles of the past. Will tech companies be willing or able to… Read more »
I visualized a trove of data from MapLight about the issues on which internet companies are lobbying Congress. Here are the results of that, as well as links to the raw… Read more »
The news is no longer contained in an object we can hold, but flows around us through a variety of apps and services, and the design or algorithmic choices those platforms… Read more »