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Paranormal State Goes on Tour to Find Paranormal Experiences...a story of its own to tell. Beginning November 20, fans can log on to the interactive Paranormal State tour site and join the official Paranormal State Facebook Fan Page and Twitter feeds, all in advance of the tour. Throughout the tour fans... In this article: Paranormal State, Ryan Buell, United States, California State University, Fullerton, Twitter, and Los Angeles |
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PR Newswire: Health / Biotech | November 19, 2009
New GoMeals(TM) iPhone Application from sanofi-aventis U.S. to Help People with Diabetes Eat Healthy Anywhere, Anytime
...of the nutritional content of any meal. Along with the app, sanofi-aventis U.S. has launched a Twitter presence at http://twitter.com/GoMeals to encourage conversation amongst users of the app. "The development of new technologies like...
In this article: U.S., Iphone, Sanofi-Aventis, Insulin, Carbohydrate, Itunes, Hormone, and Glucose
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter's Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress' Picks Up
...like Seesmic and TweetDeck have seen no slowdown). The weakness Twitter has been experiencing in the U.S. since last summer is now finally hitting its worldwide visitor growth as well. In October, comScore estimates that Twitter had 58.3...
In this article: WordPress.com, WordPress, Microblogging, TweetDeck, Seesmic, and U.S.
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 3 days ago
Film review: Paranormal Activity
...budget of $15,000 (AGBP9,000). Cynics can sniff all they want that this is just clever marketing from its US distributor Paramount, who exploited Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to generate demand for the film. But that doesn't change the fact...
In this article: Blair Witch, Depeche Mode, San Diego, Facebook, and MySpace
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washingtonpost.com | November 17, 2009
Twitter to overhaul user list seen as partisan
...to 1 million during the same three-week period. Twitter also added Carly Fiorina, who is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer next year. The list's expansion drew praise from Kim Alexander,...
In this article: Gavin Newsom, Biz Stone, California, Jerry Brown, San Francisco, California Republican Party, and Sacramento State University
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CNET News.com | 4 days ago
Judging the top 10 Internet moments of the decade
...voters, and online fundraising. The Iranian election protesters in 2009 using Twitter to spread their word, a movement that prompted the U.S. State Department to ask Twitter to keep the site up and running. That's a pretty good list, but of...
In this article: Webby Awards, Firefox, Salesforce, Iphone, Craigslist, Google Chrome, File sharing, E mail, and Cloud computing
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Sunday Mirror | November 16, 2009
Kelly Osbourne abused on Twitter for mum's Susan Boyle outburst
Kelly Osbourne abused on Twitter for mum's Susan Boyle outburst Kelly Osbourne has suffered a torrent of abuse on Twitter following her mum's outburst at Susan Boyle. Bitchy Sharon Osbourne cruelly poked fun at SuBo claiming she looks like...
In this article: Kelly Osbourne, Susan Boyle, and US
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Reuters | November 12, 2009
FDA tackles gray area of social media
...media WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Drug makers, Internet companies and nonprofits packed a hearing into what is a gray area for U.S. health regulators: how far Twitter, Wikipedia, blogs and other social media can go in promoting drugs. The...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Wikipedia, Thomson Reuters, Eli Lilly, Small business, and WebMD
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | November 21, 2009
Internet activists discuss online democracy
Examples include simultaneous global protests on climate change, democracy activists using Twitter in Iran or a French campaign against legislation that threatened to cut people's Internet connection for downloading copyrighted material.
In this article: Barack Obama, Democracy, Joe Rospars, Personal Democracy Forum, Andrew Rasiej, YouTube, and U.S.
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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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