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.”
Google’s mobile Maps lead Daniel Graf will be joining the flock at Twitter, where he will help mold the company’s product development efforts, especially on mobile devices. Read more »
Twitter is buying Gnip, the data startup that has full access to the Twitter firehose. Twitter now has what it needs to deliver meaningful data to companies that want to examine… Read more »
According to one estimate, less than half of all the users who have created Twitter accounts have ever posted a tweet. While that should be of interest to Twitter and its… Read more »
The more Facebook tries to control the News Feed in order to make sure the content in it is “high quality” enough, the more likely it is to irritate users who… Read more »
Twitter (s twtr) announced Thursday that it will roll out new web notifications for its online platform slowly over the coming weeks. If a user is logged in on Twitter’s website and receives… Read more »
A drugstore’s decision to tweet a photo of a famous actress leaving its store raises the question of where to draw the line between news and endorsement rights. Read more »