Posts under ‘Twitter’

We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you’ve been up to, whether it’s sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend’s tweets. To help you and your Twitter network stay connected no matter where you are on the web, [...]

If you are going to use Twitter, here is a great video to watch.

Folks who use m.twitter.com to access Twitter on a mobile browser have long lamented the lack of replies. Today we’re happy to say that @replies can be accessed via the mobile site. There’s a link at the bottom of your timeline and here’s a hint: you can just hit the number 1 on your keypad [...]

This morning’s tour of Twitter trends.

Apple has captured the top trend today as people react to the company’s bold threat to close the world’s biggest music store if American music publishers raise royalties 66%.
NDA and iPhone are also trending because Apple has announced it will no longer require app developers to keep their projects under wraps.
Halloween is trending this morning [...]

A quick look at the newest trends on Twitter this morning.

Rosh Hashanah is trending on Twitter as folks reflect back on the year in 140 characters or less—shofar sho good?
Iron Man was released today on DVD and Blu Ray and Twitter is teeming with plans to watch it at home tonight.
#atlgas is still trending as people in Atlanta [...]

Andrew Ratner from the Baltimore Sun takes a little tour of history’s short messages in his article, We’re all a-twitter being succinct.
Samuel Morse tapped out this historic message upon inventing the telegraph: What hath God wrought?
22 characters long.
Alexander Graham Bell’s first spoken words on a telephone: Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
41 characters.
Neil [...]

We’re getting ready to launch a refresh of parts of the Twitter.com interface. This release does not include any new features (well, one). It’s mostly cosmetic changes. This post describes what we’re doing and why.
Moving the tabs

The most significant change you’ll notice on the logged-in homepage (/home) is that we’ve moved the tabs that were [...]

Did you know YouTube has an official presence on Facebook and Twitter? Sign up for these groups to receive the latest company news, product updates, hot video alerts, and much more. Here’s how…
…to become a YouTube Facebook fan:
* Create a Facebook account if you have not already
* Sign in to your account
* Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/YouTube/7270241753
* Once you are [...]

Twitter is all about what’s happening right now but sometimes people like to see what has already happened to add a little context. If you’re one of those folks, we want to point out a few recent improvements that may have gone unnoticed. The timeline on home pages now goes back 40 pages instead of [...]

I wanted to take a moment to share more than 140 characters about Twitter’s continued reliability improvements and how we’ve made it here.
I’ve always respected a good sense of pacing. It’s easy to be fast and loose, but it takes a certain discipline, foresight, and patience to guide something through the right way. For most [...]

The Twitter API has grown over the past 2 years and become very important to Twitter as well as developers who build on our services. This has all happened despite the fact that we could only spare one engineer to work on the API about half of his time. Things are changing.
Alex Payne has been leading much [...]

Malicious Software or “Malware” is rampant on the web. Some experts have estimated 1 in 10 web pages contain malicious code that could infect a user’s PC. While Twitter can’t actually host malware, it does allow hyperlinks and is therefore not immune to those who would attempt to point others directly towards malware elsewhere on the web.
We’ve already removed [...]

How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.
Several weeks ago we invited folks in New York City and San Francisco to share with us a little about how and why they use Twitter. We talked to lots of interesting people. Alas, we had to edit way down for time so only a few people made it into [...]

Macworld has some reviews up in case your trying to decide which Twitter iPhone app is right for you.