It was exactly four years when three friends, a computer programmer (Jack Dorsey) and the two creators of Blogger.com (Evan Williams and Biz Stone) decided to create one of the largest and most simple technological innovations of all time. This platform, sometimes criticized as being too simple. It has much “junk” now, account for about [...]
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Tweeting from Space
The internet has taken a giant leap. An American astronaut, the Expedition 22 flight engineer of International Space Station (ISS), TJ Creamer, sent for the first time a Twitter message from space on Friday, Jan 22, 2010. NASA described it as, The “ultimate wireless”. “Hi Twitterverse!” (pun in English between worlds “universe”, and Twitter), says [...]
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Twit’ Tweetup diction!
The Oxford University Press-commissioned ‘word of the year’ project has revealed micro-blogging site Twitter’s dominating contribution to the list of 2009. According to the press, Tweeter-related words like Tweetup, Tweetarati, Twitterverse and Tweet have gained considerable popularity. However, Unfriend was nominated as the word of the year. Unfriend, which means removing someone from the friend’s [...]
Dec
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Twitter seeks to dominate geoloc services with Mixer Labs acquisition
Understanding the increasing trend of GeoTagging the microblogging star Twitter has acquired the Mixer Labs, company behind GeoAPI services On Wednesday Twitter announced the acquisition on their blog. Twitter is making various progresses in the geotagging field and this acquisition comes in line with their step to preview expanded location support for developers in August [...]
Dec
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2009
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Yahoo integrates Tweets to its search results
After trying with Yahoo! News Shortcut with Twitter, Yahoo has now integrated Twitter tweets to its web search result page. Yahoo will showcase the tweets related to buzzing topics at bottom of the page of your search results. With the integration of tweets in its search result Yahoo aims to provide an improved search experience [...]
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Bing & Google search now index Twitter tweets
Twitter’s treasure trove of tweets could now be accessed via Microsoft’s Bing and Google search. Both the search engine giants have finally announced their data- mining deal with Twitter for including tweets in their respective search results. The real-time search results and openness of Twitter attracted Bing and Google to include tweets in its search [...]
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Video Tweeting may soon hit Twitter
Twitter plans to bring in more fashionable look to your tweets with video tweeting. The microblogging site is occupied to bring the idea into real so that every twittarian can express their thoughts and idea with various video clips. San Francisco based online messaging site until now provides its users with the facility of unlimited [...]
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Google, Microsoft search may soon tweet Twitter’s data
Twitter is planning to bring your tweets to real time searches of both Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Twitter is separately in talks with both the search engines to foster the search results with its “data-mining deal”. The deal if stamped will allow full Twitter’s feed to be incorporated into the search results of both the [...]