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Five Ways Startups Are Tapping Into LinkedIn's API...to build applications around the platform. While LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, Research In Motion and others, this will be the first time startups can tap into the platform. While LinkedIn is releasing 11 different... In this article: LinkedIn, Twitter, Box.net, TweetDeck, Facebook, Oauth, Research In Motion, Flickr, MySpace, and IBM |
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CNET News.com | 4 days ago
Millions using social media on Xbox Live
...social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xbox Live users access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. And while the manifestation of each of those services is scaled...
In this article: Facebook, Microsoft, Last.fm, CNET, CBS Interactive, Digital, and Boost Mobile
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010
...June, up 15-fold from a year earlier, according to tracker comScore. Twitter last month forged deals with Microsoft and Google to allow access for its real-time content. It also linked up with professional social network site LinkedIn...
In this article: Biz Stone, Insight Venture Partners, Tel Aviv, Revenue, T. Rowe Price, LinkedIn, Google, and Microsoft
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AP Online | November 19, 2009
Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search
...Internet search market to Google and Microsoft. Google also plans to include Twitter's chatter in its search results, but has yet to say when that change will occur. Both Microsoft and Google announced their Twitter deals last month.
In this article: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft Corp., and California
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San Francisco Chronicle | 4 days ago
Firms channeling apps to TV
...DVD players, and also more traditional cable and telecom video providers. Microsoft turned on Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm apps for its Xbox Live platform last week. A handful of Blu-ray players from LG and Samsung support Netflix and could...
In this article: Roku, Potato, Blu-ray, Vizio, Facebook, Yahoo, Adobe, DVD, and Iphone
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | 4 days ago
The Definition of Evil: Microsoft's Search Wars Hurt Us All [Search]
...search them all to find what we want? Hell! This started when Microsoft and Google paid for access to Twitter's millions of tweets and Bing paid Facebook and Twitter for access to their pages. Think about this perspective, if you ran Fox...
In this article: Microsoft, Google, Bing, Facebook, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Zune
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Xconomy | November 19, 2009
Microsoft Will Buy Twitter, Adobe to Buy Picnik, and Other Bold Predictions for 2010
Microsoft Will Buy Twitter, Adobe to Buy Picnik, and Other Bold Predictions for 2010 It wasn't so much the predictions as the discussion that was most interesting at last night's annual predictions dinner, organized by the Washington...
In this article: Adobe, Microsoft, Picnik, Seattle, Redfin, and Amazon
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PC World: Latest Technology News | November 17, 2009
360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming
...by a factor of two. Microsoft teased Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter integration at E3 this summer and rolled it out to beta testers several weeks ago, and it's finally available to everyone starting today. While Twitter comes across...
In this article: Facebook, PlayStation 3, Sony, Xbox 360, Microsoft, Dashboard, and Modern Warfare 2
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Forbes.com Technology News | November 19, 2009
Microsoft, Nielsen Track Xbox Live Ads
...social and entertainment features into their consoles. Microsoft launched Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm apps for Xbox Live this week, as well as its Zune Video HD instant-streaming service. Sony's PlayStation 3, which has a built-in Blu-ray...
In this article: Microsoft, Nielsen, Xbox, Sony, Facebook, Netflix, and Blu-ray
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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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