readwriteweb.com - 1/22/2009
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The most extreme developers may find themselves left out in the cold.
Twitter watchers know that a large part of the service's use comes through its Application Programming Interface (API) and that's been a big part of what helped the young service grow. Now that the company has Britney ...
techcrunch.com - 1/25/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Twitter, which just recently turned down a half
billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be...
paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. ...
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Twitter Raising New Cash At $250 Million Valuation
weblogs.hitwise.com - 1/20/2009
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January 20, 2009 Twitter catches up to Digg
Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who...
like to update their daily thoughts and activates, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets. Last week, the market share of visits to ...
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Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - US: Twitter ...
blog.twitter.com - 1/20/2009
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blog.twitter.com —
It was a big day at Twitter HQ
today and it's not even noon yet. We saw...
5x normal tweets-per-second and about 4x tweets-per-minute as this chart illustrates. Overall, Twitter sailed smoothly through the inauguration but at the peak, some folks did ...
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Inauguration Day on Twitter
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Every Time I Try To Embrace Twitter, They Push Us Away
louisgray.com —
... aspects of the service, the community, and its outstanding search engine, this isn't the first time I've been left feeling cold about how the team has impacted its users or development community. Previous Discussion: Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for AirIf you have your head buried in RSS feeds and the tech Web, you've likely already seen the major issue - either from the SocialToo blog itself, or on sites like ReadWriteWeb, CNET and others, including Chris Charabaruk and ...
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