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There's plenty to be happy about...of the latest technology. Helping me through my day are my high-definition TV, TiVo, Mac Book Pro, Blackberry Storm, Bose noise-canceling headphones, iPod, Facebook and Twitter - things I can't imagine being without. Just call me a gadget... In this article: Steve Roslonek, Life is Good, John Mayer, Natalie Merchant, BlackBerry Storm, and DVD |
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NBC | June 01, 2009
Note to Self: Don't Tweet Vacation Plans
...was heading out of town," he told a local Arizona television station. "And then I have it set up that Twitter goes to Facebook so it could be someone I know on Facebook." The owner of a video podcasting company often uses the social...
In this article: Google, Facebook, MacBook Pro, Xbox 360, Wii, San Francisco, and Arizona
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | September 23, 2009
Twitter faux pas: 20 dreadful types of tweet
...#Moonfruit The website building company must have been stunned by the response to its Twitter promotion, which involved giving away MacBook Pro computers to 10 random people who included the term #moonfruit in their updates. Tens of...
In this article: Apple, Stephen Fry, Self-help, Twitpic, Solipsism, DVD, IKEA, and MacBook Pro
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BusinessWeek Online | August 20, 2009
How a Tiny Startup Used Twitter to Find App Store Success
...excitement to get people to tweet about it. Though tap tap tap's marketing scheme for Convert worked, marketing promotions on Twitter have proven to be a hit-or-miss strategy for other companies. While Web site builder Moonfruit's campaign...
In this article: Iphone, Apple, MacHeist, App Store, Itunes, Itunes Store, and IPod
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Adweek | July 07, 2009
Moonfruit's Twitter Push Provides Cautionary Tale
...system so much, as one brand recently discovered. Moonfruit, a U.K.-based company that offers free Web site building tools, saw a great opportunity to raise brand awareness on Twitter. The company last week kicked off a sweepstakes, giving...
In this article: Moonfruit, MacBook Pro, Michael Jackson, U.K., and Iran
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VentureBeat | September 10, 2009
5 O'Clock Roundup: Chip makers boost tech stocks, Boots get the brig, Microsoft funds open-source evangelism
...State Prison. Companies turn to ChallengePost contests for crowdsourced design - OneRiot, the Twitter-centric search company, has announced a $1,500 prize for "the most compelling data visualization of the realtime Web. " Collecta will...
In this article: Microsoft, Paul Boutin, Wired, Revenue, and Intel
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Wikipedia | August 10, 2009
Moonfruit
...the viral power of Twitter's trending topics. In celebration of their 10th birthday, they offered Twitter users the chance to win an Apple MacBook Pro just by tweeting their tag; "#moonfruit". One PC would be given away each day for 10 days...
In this article: Dot-com bubble, Apple MacBook Pro, London, and UK
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I4U News | January 09, 2009
Jimmy Fallon is what it takes to make the best CES 2009 Video Interview
...P in their suit jackets. Jimmy Fallon is the firs time at CES. He is handling an iPhone 3G and a MacBook Pro and is using Twitter to get pointed to the hot booth at CES 2009. The video interview is extremely fun to watch. See it on...
In this article: Jimmy Fallon, Engadget, Palm, Palm Pre, Iphone, MacBook Pro, Sony, and Saturday Night Live
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Fast Company | March 27, 2009
iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News
...BusinessWeek's John Tozzi and Time] We all know by now that Twitter has captured the fancy of celebrity musicians (50 Cent, Diddy Combs), actors (Ashton Kutcher), and politicians (President Obama). The New York Times breaks today with the...
In this article: Amazon, 50 Cent, Jeff Bezos, Daimler, Kurt Andersen, and Kentucky
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) | June 11, 2009
Terminal Tips: Rebuild your Launch Services database to clean up the Open With menu
...on my MacBook Pro, my Open With menu was a mess. Solution: Lucky for me, I noticed David Chartier's question about this on Twitter around the same time as I was wondering what to do about it. Some friendly person pointed him to a posting on...
In this article: Titanium, OnyX, Parallels, Vmware, MacBook Pro, and Apple
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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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- Jack Dorsey, Chairman
- Evan Williams, CEO
- Biz Stone, Creative Director
- Revenue:
- $400,000 Q3 (2009) (projected)
- No. of Employees:
- 74
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