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Company Sues Former Blogger Over His Twitter Account

by Jeff Weisbein December 30, 2011
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We may soon find out how much a tweet or Twitter follower costs in dollar terms. An interesting lawsuit filed by PhoneDog Media L.L.C. against Noah Kravitz, a former blogger for PhoneDog.com.

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10 Signs You’re Using Twitter Wrong

by Jeff Weisbein November 13, 2011
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10 signs you may be using Twitter wrong. Find out why and how to fix your mistakes!

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Twitter Exodus Proves Jack Dorsey Is Taking Control

by Jeff Weisbein November 11, 2011
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Twitter is currently experiencing some employee shakeup, since late July Twitter has either been clearing house or losing talent such as Loren Brichter (developer of Tweetie, acquired by Twitter), Mike Abbott (VP of Engineering), Sean Garrett (Head of Communications), and most recently Pam Kramer (VP of Consumer Marketing).  Even some investors are heading for the [...]

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Twitter Announces 100M Active Users. I’m Not Impressed.

by Jeff Weisbein September 11, 2011
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Twitter has 100 million active monthly users and 400 million monthly visitors to its Web site, said CEO Dick Costolo, at what he called Twitter’s “state of the union” this past Thursday.  However, Costolo went on to say that 40 percent (or 40 million) of active users don’t create their own tweets, meaning of course, that [...]

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Twitter and Bing’s Awkward Tweet Conversation Raises Questions

by Jeff Weisbein September 6, 2011
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In a rather odd and clearly scripted conversation on Twitter (screenshot below), it appears that both Twitter and Bing may be working on some kind of new partnership.  It could be further integration of Twitter within Bing or perhaps even other Microsoft services and products.  Whatever it is, we don’t know at this point.  Nonetheless, [...]

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Why Does Twitter Want to Acquire TweetDeck?

by Mike Mansell April 20, 2011
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With rumors that Twitter is in the works of acquiring Tweetdeck, what does the social networking site stand to gain from the estimated $50 million acquisition?

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Twitter Users: The Guinea Pigs of the Technology Industry

by Mike Mansell December 14, 2010
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Believe it or not, teen pop-star Justin Bieber isn’t the only one who has received extravagant levels of attention on the micro-blogging site Twitter in the past year.  This is because the site’s audience goes beyond that of teenage girls and has what appears to be a very technologically savvy user-base, many of whom are more than willing to [...]

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Tweetie 2 for Mac Isn’t Dead, Just Being Developed Super Slowly.

by Jeff Weisbein October 20, 2010
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Last week we reported that Tweetie for Mac was in fact dead.  It seemed to have come straight from the horses mouth, that of course being, Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter).  Not so fast says Loren Brichter, developer of Tweetie and founder of Atebits software which was acquired by Twitter back in April. Now, since the [...]

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Tweetie for Mac Is Dead. At Least Right Now.

by Jeff Weisbein October 15, 2010
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Today is #AskEv day on Twitter.  Where you can ask Ev Williams (former CEO and Co-founder of Twitter) basically any question you would like.  He has been answering a bunch of questions, but here is one that really stood out to me when it passed by in my Twitter stream. One user, @Chris24 asks Ev, [...]

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Is Twitter Still Interesting?

by Jeff Weisbein July 13, 2010
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Is Twitter still interesting?  I think that is a legitimate question.  I’m not asking if people are still using the service (because they are), what I am asking is if Twitter is up to anything interesting and what they are planning to do for the web.  Twitter was always expected to blow our minds with [...]

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