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Twitter Announces @anywhere Platform

Twitter should soon become more ubiquitous across the Web.  Today, the company’s cofounders announced something called @anywhere that should help integrate the Twitter experience into standard sites, and a number of impressive organizations have agreed to take part in the initial rollout. Evan Williams essentially handled the SXSW side of things this afternoon, discussing @anywhere during...

Twitter Reaches 140-Employee Milestone

Twitter’s long been associated with the number 140; it is, of course, this number that defines how the site’s users communicate with each other.  And the number now represents the size of the company’s payroll, too, as Twitter’s hired its 140th employee. Biz Stone announced the milestone late yesterday by simply tweeting, "Today we are celebrating our 140th employee...

Twitter Earns Itself a Candy Heart Phrase

You know those candy hearts everybody has around Valentine’s Day with the little sayings on them? Showing just how much of a stronghold Twitter actually has on pop culture, this year, one such saying that will appear on these candies is "Tweet me." NECCO, the company that makes Sweethearts announced today that this (and "Text Me") were among the top user-generated choices...

Stone Makes “Several Billion Tweets Per Hour” Prediction

To some degree, it’s part of a cofounder’s job to act as a corporate cheerleader; a pessimist could hurt his company by scaring people away.  Biz Stone appears to have all but literally grabbed a megaphone and shouted "rah, rah," though, as he predicted that Twitter usage will hit monster levels next year. A 600-word document written by Stone appeared in the Times Online...

Twitter Expands Into More Languages

Update 4 : Twitter is now supporting the German language. Update 3 : Twitter is now supporting the Italian language. Update 2 : Twitter is now supporting the French language. Update: Twitter is now supporting the Spanish language. Original Article: Twitter announced that it intends to roll out the service in the French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages. Currently it’s...

Twitter Cofounder Talks Again About Acquisitions

There’s no need to start refreshing the Twitter Blog every five seconds; it doesn’t sound like any pens are poised over paper at the moment.  However, Biz Stone has made some statements concerning acquisitions that point to more of them taking place in the future. "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone said at a press conference in Israel, according to...

“What’s Happening” with Twitter?

There’s a lot of change going on with Twitter these days. Recently we got the highly-anticipated Lists feature, which helped us to organize our streams and discover new, interesting people to follow. Then Twitter began rolling out its retweet button feature, which seemed like something that had been strangely missing from the service for a long time, but has ultimately caused something of an...

Paid Twitter Accounts To Debut This Year, Says Stone

Corporate Twitter accounts are still on the way, and should be introduced by the end of this year, according to cofounder Biz Stone.  Stone chatted a little more about these accounts – along with the company’s problematic growth rate – while on a NESTA panel in London. "One of the first things we are going to do explicitly is commercial accounts," Stone said, as reported...

Twitter To Make Suggested Users Feature More Like Twellow’s?

Last month Twitter CEO Evan Williams made some comments at the Web 2.0 Summit, indicating that the company was strongly considering ditching the "Suggested Users" list. This is a list that co-founder Biz Stone once discussed as being a way to get new users engaged with Twitter. This has historically been an important thing for Twitter to consider, as user retention rates have suffered in...

LinkedIn, Twitter Connect Through Status Updates

LinkedIn has developed a reputation for being a rather sedate, professional site.  Twitter, on the other hand, is at the anything-goes, trend-of-the-minute end of the social networking spectrum.  But last night, the two companies announced a partnership that should see a bit of back-and-forth result. A post on the LinkedIn Blog explained, "When you set your status on LinkedIn you can...

Is Twitter Smart to Ditch the Suggested User List?

Twitter CEO Evan Willams made some comments at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that have some Twitter enthusiasts in debate. He reportedly said that he wants to retire the Suggested User List (SUL) as the company prepares to launch its highly anticipated "Lists" feature. The Lists feature would let people create lists of Twitter accounts, or group together certain accounts that they...

Twitter Cofounder Speaks Out (Again) Against Sale

In case you were wondering, it doesn’t look like Twitter’s going to get new owners anytime soon.  Biz Stone, who happens to be in Tokyo for the launch of a mobile site, said today that a sale is pretty much not something anyone’s considering. Martyn Williams reported that Stone stated at the launch event, "Twitter is not interested in being acquired by a bigger company,...

Twitter Officially Partners with First Charity

Twitter has for the first time in the company’s (relatively short) history, formally partnered with a charity. The company has teamed up with Room to Read as part of a "Corporate Social Innovation" initiative. Room to Read is a San-Francisco-based non-profit, which aims to "empower millions of children in the developing world through education." Twitter staff will participate...

Twitter Denies Rumors of Video Inclusion

Seems like just yesterday that the Telegraph was reporting that Twitter was considering the introduction of video tweets into its playbook (actually it was just yesterday). Interesting and scary thought all at once (honestly, do you need to actually see some of the folks who pass along their nuggets of 140 character wisdom?). So while it makes for a nice article and creates the some speculation, what...

Stone: Twitter Not Interested In Video

Twitter users shouldn’t feel any pressure to start carrying around bags of cosmetics or spare shirts.  A rumor that Twitter might introduce a "video tweeting" option has been denied by cofounder Biz Stone. Yesterday, Amy Willis wrote, "Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernise the site. . . .  The upgrade,...