Twitter

Name:	Twitter
Industries:	Internet
Employees:	29
Headquarters:	539 Bryant St Suite 402 San Francisco, CA 94107 United States
Website:
www.twitter.com

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams and launched publicly July 2006. Twitter has received an estimated $60 million in funding thus far. Twitter is considered

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams and launched publicly July 2006. Twitter has received an estimated $60 million in funding thus far.

Twitter is considered the "SMS of the Internet." Twitter is estimated to have 4-5 million users and is considered to be the third most used social network (after Facebook and MySpace).

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LG's New GT350 Lets You Social Network Like A Pro

LG has announced the launch of the LG GT350, a new QWERTY messaging phone with built-in applications for major social networks, all optimized for its 3-inch full touchscreen. The LG GT350 improves upon the earlier LG KS360, a messaging phone that has sold over five million units worldwide since its ... - read more at SlashPhone

tags: Facebook

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Why Google won't give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut tomorrow

OK, I've given you the reasons why Google will be successful this time, but why won't what they announce tomorrow give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut? Funny aside, I found this photo of Matt Mullenweg (the entrepreneur behind Wordpress) getting a buzz cut by using Google's Social Circles search. Some ... - read more at Scobleizer

tags: Google Facebook YouTube Microsoft Zynga FriendFeed Larry Page Sergey Brin Mark Zuckerberg

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Google Just Added Status Updates To Gmail (Again)

Move by search giant takes aim at Facebook, Twitter. - read more at Forbes

tags: Google Facebook

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vaday

Foursquare continues to sign interesting deals with major players in a wide range of fields. Following the service's Bravo deal a couple weeks ago, they've reached a deal with restaurant rating guide Zagat, according to The New York Times. And AdAge has some details about deals with even more partners, ... - read more at TechCrunch

tags: History Channel Facebook

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Riverbed releases gigabit-speed WAN optimizer

Riverbed Technology Inc. today released two new models of its WAN optimization engine, the Steelhead appliance, which can now achieve network throughput speeds of up to 1Gbit/sec. over Ethernet or OC-12 connections. The new appliance, the Steelhead 7050-L (low) and 7050-M (medium), are the first to ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Riverbed Mac Microsoft Computerworld Yankee Zeus Kerravala

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Google Hosting A Special Event On Tuesday

Reports are coming in that Google is sending out invitations to a special event on Tuesday at the company's Mountain View, California campus. Details aren't abundant just yet, but apparently “some new product innovations” are promised at the event. It's speculated that Google will be launching ... - read more at Ubergizmo

tags: Google

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Truphone 3.3 Update Brings New Twitter Features to this Free ...

Screenshot courtesy of Software Cellular Network The Truphone blog announced... New Twitter features added to Truphone for iPhone and iPod touch New features in the 3.3 update include... - Integration with yfrog and Twitpic, so you can post photos to your Twitter account - Integration with bit.ly, so ... - read more at mediabistro.com: MobileContentToday

tags: bit.ly

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leena

Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns. But buzz and social dialogue on the web is tough to quantify. General Sentiment has released a report that ... - read more at TechCrunch

tags: American Express American Express Apple eBay Google Microsoft Yahoo

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Google to add social networking features to Gmail

As per WSJ reports, Gmail users will get a module that will display status updates from the selected Google contacts, quite similar to MySpace or Facebook offering. Even Yahoo has embraced this feature. gmail-hacks-tricks.jpg Google Inc. (NASD: GOOG) reportedly is planning to add a new social networking ... - read more at The Money Times

tags: Google Wall Street Journal (WSJ) MySpace Yahoo Facebook

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Sarah Granger: Practical Strategies for Breaking Gender Barriers ...

Sunday I sat down with a small group at the Government 2.0 Camp LA to pow-wow about how to get more women involved in the movement that has many names: e-government, open government, government transparency, and finally government 2.0. While the conference took on many forms, but one of the primary ... - read more at Huffington Post

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