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Technology to Help Navigate Black Friday Sales...and pull up prices of that item at competing retail shops. Twitter: Keep an eye on CheapTweet, a site that scans Twitter for any tweets that mention sales or bargains. The company has revved up its services for Black Friday and is... In this article: Black Friday, Facebook, Iphone, Amazon.com, Motorola, Suicide, Landing page, Uranium, Thanksgiving, and E-Commerce |
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TechCrunch | November 20, 2009
Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry
...the users. In addition you can also block or unfollow a user. While Twitter rolled out the geolocation API yesterday, Seesmic hasn't integrated its API into the app. But the app still features a geolocation tool that lets you embed...
In this article: Seesmic, BlackBerry, Android, Facebook, Iphone, Android, and TweetDeck
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Engadget Mobile | 4 days ago
HTC HD2 review
...Windows Mobile and Android now, not all of these applications will seem completely fresh. For instance, the company has bundled its Twitter client, Peep, with the HD2 (as on the Hero / Eris), as well as the geotagging photo program Footprints,...
In this article: HTC, Windows Mobile, Microsoft, Iphone, Android, Apple, Pininfarina, and Palm OS
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Cnet | November 20, 2009
Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android
...on BlackBerry and Google Android phones. The free Seesmic, like its proliferate rivals, lets you read, manage, and compose Twitter messages much more flexibly than you can do from Twitter's Web site. We crash-tested both mobile versions as...
In this article: BlackBerry, Seesmic, Google Android, Raccoon, URL Shortening, and CNET
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TechCrunch | November 09, 2009
Ten Apps All New Android Users Should Check Out
...version available for around EUR3.39 (around $5) Description: We're seeing more and more Twitter clients hit the Android Market as of late, but Twidroid still seems to be the crowd favorite. The free version offers up all the basics...
In this article: Android platform, Iphone, Flixster, Ustream, Short URL, TED, Qik, Google Product Search, and Larry Page
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Editorial: Chrome OS is what I want, but not what I need
...the amount of communication whizzing past us. I shouldn't have to hack things into my OS as core to my life as an integrated notification tray that pulls in email, IM, calendar and Twitter updates. Luckily, it sounds like this is something...
In this article: Chrome OS, Google, Android, Ubuntu, Firefox, Linux, Gmail, Engadget, and YouTube
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | October 29, 2009
Motorola looks to Google-powered phones for turnaround
...smartphone, the Cliq, in September. The Cliq is heavily geared toward social networking and younger users with features built around sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Jha, who was brought in last year to turn around...
In this article: Motorola, Google, Revenue, Sanjay Jha, Android, Mobile Devices, Android, Apple, Wall Street, and Verizon Wireless
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The Register | November 05, 2009
Samsung Galaxy i7500 Android smartphone
...with the basic Android UI. There has been no attempt at social networking integration a la HTC and Motorola, though you can of course download apps for Facebook, Twitter and others from the Android Market. All the basic Android elements...
In this article: Android, Android, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, and Facebook
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Digital Trends | November 07, 2009
Augmented Reality Past, Present and Future: How It Impacts Our Lives
...alerting users to nearby train stations in London) and Tweetmondo for Android smartphones (which shows the status updates of nearby Twitter fans), offer an early glimpse at how the technology works. Even the unlikeliest candidates such as...
In this article: Tweetmondo, Android, Iphone, Web 2.0, Google Earth, Ogilvy and Mather, Facebook, US Postal Service, and A&E Network
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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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