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It seems that Twitter has come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it's coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company's upcoming advertising...

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...users that items posted to Twitter are public unless they make their Twitter stream private. Twitter's geolocation features do not actually work on Twitter.com yet however but will rolled out as part of third party applications like Tweetdeck...

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Earlier this month, Twitter rolled out a Spanish language version of its service. This was the first language to gain native support beyond English and Japanese. Today, it's announcing French support as well. As the service announced in...

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...a staple on Twitter as it grew from a niche community to a major social network. At the same time, Twitter's users have largely ignored it. And so, if Twitter insists on asking a question for users to answer in their status update box, maybe...

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...or less, according to comScore Inc. At the end of last year, 4 million people were regularly using Twitter. As its reach has extended, Twitter has turned into a prized resource for search engines trying to monitor what people are...

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Back in August, Twitter announced that it was getting ready to roll out an ambitious new project: Geolocation. The idea was to be able to attach a location to every tweet. Today, the API is officially turned on, but it's not on the main site...

...possibilities". "We can give away this real-time feed of data to other companies such as Google and Bing to give them a better experience for searching Twitter," he said. However, Mr Stone admitted that Twitter was still finding its way.

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Twitter Now Asks "What's Happening" Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn't such a huge deal but it's definitely worth mention. Twitter's prompting question above the box from...

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...on the site. If you choose to sign in as a guest, you'll need to download your background and upload it to Twitter. It's much easier to offer up your Twitter credentials, so the site can add it automatically when you're all set. I liked...

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...API Announcements Google Group today, there is now a new Find People API. This will extend the "Find People" capabilities that exist on Twitter.com to third-party developers. Presumably, as with Find People on the site, you'll be able to...

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