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18 links, first saved December 3, 2007, latest June 3, 2021.
- Introducing Twitter Blue - Twitter’s first-ever subscription offering
I was excited that Twitter was coming out with a subscription offering, but there are two things that it should have to me and this has neither. No ads for subscribers. Nothing.…
- Building DistributedLog: Twitter’s high-performance replicated log service | Twitter Blogs
At Twitter, we’ve used replicated logs to address a range of challenging problems in distributed systems. Today we’d like to tell you about DistributedLog, our high-performance…
- Improving communication across distributed teams | Twitter Blogs
As a global company, Twitter has offices in numerous locations around the world. Optimizing collaboration and improving productivity between employees across offices is a…
- Twitter Working with Girls Who Code
All of which leads to our new partnership with Girls Who Code, a program founded by Reshma Saujani (@reshmasaujani), designed to introduce high school girls to software…
- Measuring Tweets
As a member of the Twitter analytics team, part of my job is to measure and understand growth. The graph above tells a story of how we've grown over the past three years in terms…
- @google Nice!
Our friends down in Mountain View want to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A fast growing amount of information is coursing through…
- Soon to Launch: Lists
My name is Nick Kallen (@nk) and I'm the project lead on Lists, a new feature we're testing with a small subset of users. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter…
- Location, Location, Location
Twitter platform developers have been doing innovative work with location for some time despite having access to only a rudimentary level of API support. Most of the…
- Visualize Whirled Tweets
Way back in 2007 during the olden days of Twitter we set up plasma screens in the hallways between panels at SXSW Interactive. Tweets from SXSW'ers floated by hypnotizing…
- Finding A Perfect Match
Last month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union…
- Obama, McCain Debate Via Twitter
Silicon Alley Insider has the details: "Want to know what Barack Obama thinks about net neutrality? John McCain's views on white space spectrum? Good luck learning about that…
- Another Card
This is another Twitter card by the someecards guys. Funny.
- Twitter Your Signature
Use Twitsig.com: "Many forums, Blogs, and other web services allow you to have images as part of your signature. twitsig.com allows you to display your current twitter status as…
- Twitter Meter
Twitter meter let's you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter's public timeline and displays a handy graph so you can see what folks are talking about.
- Play Wordy Birdie on Twitter
Wordy Birdie is a game that works within Twitter. The creator, Dan Grigsby describes it as "part buzzword bingo, part drinking game." You earn points by predicting what words…
- Twitter Web Traffic Around the World
Click image to see bigger graphTwitter's traffic comes from SMS, Instant Message, Mobile Web, and all those wonderful API projects out there. However, we also have good…
- Hey, We Won!
Best Web LittleCo of 2007: Twitter: "Twitter is undoubtedly new and disruptive. In a year in which you can count on one hand the number of disruptive Web products (iPhone would be…
- Vint Cerf: "Twitter Is The Future!"
The Guardian asked Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and current Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, to tell readers what the future holds. That's easy:…