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Bent uses Twitter to make Sunderland racism claim...has claimed his mother was racially abused by a Sunderland fan during his side's 1-0 defeat at Wigan. The striker posted the claim on his Twitter feed shortly after the match, which was settled by Hugo Rodallega's 76th-minute goal. Bent's... In this article: Darren Bent, Sunderland, Twitter, Wigan, Hugo Rodallega, Sunderland, and England |
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite
...like that because they fear inaccurate reports. They'll cite the Balloon Boy example as how things get out of control on services like Twitter. Well you know where the Balloon Boy reports were way more out of control? On CNN and the other...
In this article: BNO News, Walter Cronkite, Tiger Woods, CNN, John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas, Florida Highway Patrol, and Google
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | 2 days ago
Twitter Japan to introduce micropayments
...other location. Last month uSocial, a social media marketing company, offered $500,000 to post an advert on Twitter for 24 hours. Twitter launched in Japan in April 2008 and rolled out its mobile site last month. The mobile version is...
In this article: Japan, Digital Garage, Bharti Airtel, Evan Williams, Chief Executive, Biz Stone, Revenue, Web 2.0, and India
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
This Is Why The Internet (And Twitter) Wins
...to get those details from what officials were saying based on what they had already read thanks to Twitter and Google. Anyone who doesn't understand Twitter should look no further than situations like this. Which has been very clear for a...
In this article: Tiger Woods, Google, CNN, BNO News, Msnbc.com, ESPN, Iphone, and San Diego
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Twitter Japan To Introduce Paid Premium Accounts Next January
...Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge people to view tweets from certain premium Twitter accounts. Twitter Japan, which is operated under supervision of Twitter investor Digital Garage, launched in April...
In this article: Japan, Digital Garage, Biz Stone, and Revenue
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CNN | 4 days ago
From Twitter to advertising treasure
...help Twitter cash in on its own success. He said his company's model would be one way for Twitter to monetize. "Obviously, an acquisition from Twitter would be awesome," he said. But that wouldn't be the only way. "I would pay for a...
In this article: Joel McHale, Kim Kardashian, E mail, Hilton Hotels, Nicole Richie, and CNN
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter's Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress' Picks Up
...trade as "paragraphs." Today, blogs are doing fine, while Twitter is struggling with flattening growth, at least to its Website Twitter.com (clients like Seesmic and TweetDeck have seen no slowdown). The weakness Twitter has been...
In this article: WordPress.com, WordPress, Microblogging, TweetDeck, Seesmic, and U.S.
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
American Express Is Twitter Crazy Too. Unveils Its Small Business Tweet Stream.
Businesses using Twitter; there's something to this idea. Even Twitter itself realizes it, as it's expected to be a part of its own business model launching soon. In the meantime, other companies continue to jump into the ring. The lastest...
In this article: American Express, Small business, and Federated Media
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Reuters | 5 days ago
Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010
By Steven Scheer Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday. "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone told a news...
In this article: Biz Stone, Insight Venture Partners, Revenue, Micro-blogging, T. Rowe Price, LinkedIn, Google, and Microsoft
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washingtonpost.com | 6 days ago
Twitter's Biz Stone says could go IPO route
...to be the revenue year. I don't know if we're going to be profitable, but we have plenty of time," Stone said on Monday. In September, Twitter received a new round of funding from investors including mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price <TROW.O>...
In this article: Insight Venture Partners, Biz Stone, Revenue, Oxford University, T. Rowe Price, Oxford, and England
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AP Online | November 19, 2009
Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search
...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...
In this article: Yahoo, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Bing, San Francisco, Revenue, Facebook, and California
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Description from Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
The 140-character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140 character limit has also spurred the usage of URL shortening services such as tinyurl, bit.ly and tr.im, and content hosting services, such as Twitpic and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
- Name:
- Twitter, Inc
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- San Francisco, California
- Location Country:
- USA
- Founded:
- 2006
- Industry:
- mobile social network service, micro-blogging
- Key People:
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- Evan Williams, CEO
- Jack Dorsey, Chairman
- Biz Stone, Creative Director
- Revenue:
- $400,000 Q3 (2009) (projected)
- No. of Employees:
- 74
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