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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/19/2009

Twitter Plans to Offer Shopping Advice and Easy Purchasing

— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — E-commerce is a likely source of revenue for Twitter, said board member Todd Chaffee. Expect new feeds... and filters, too. (more) Twitter Plans to Offer Shopping Advice and Easy Purchasing

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blog.twitter.com - 6/16/2009

Up, Up, and Away

— blog.twitter.com — Twitter is back and our network capacity is now significantly increased. The planned maintenance that we moved... from last night to this afternoon was a success and it took half the time we expected. When we worked with our network provider yesterday to ... (more) Up, Up, and Away

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businessweek.com - 6/17/2009

Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet

— businessweek.com — Some Iranian election protesters used Twitter to get people on the streets, but most of the organizing... happened the old-fashioned way By Joel Schectman Media across the globe have been focusing on a "Twitter Revolution" in Iran as hundreds of ... (more) Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet

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Track is Back! Steve Gillmor Rejoices
Stay N' Alive — ... “The /track resource allows searching the Firehose stream for a list of keywords. This resource may be a useful adjunct to the Twitter Search API. While the predicates are less powerful than the SearchAPI, results are streamed continuously and with low-latency. For common keywords, a more complete set of results can be delivered than is possible by polling the Search API. Consult the Streaming API documentation for limits and details: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation.” ...

Twitter Track returns – but who will use it?
The Next Web — ... The Track facility will be realtime, unlike Twitter Search which often suffers delays. Still, it’s probably more useful to save a keyword search column in Tweetdeck for monitoring a topic than it is to have its results mixed in with your main feed. Keyword addicts who need search results sent by SMS to their phones will rejoice at the return of track. Everyone else will more than likely shrug and move on. Developers can read about Track and Twitter’s Streaming API here. [via Stay ‘n’ Alive] ...

The Would-Be FFugees Shouldn’t Pack Up And Find A New Home Just Yet
TechCrunch — ... , Twitter recently requested that they update again to a newer HTTP feed called “Birddog”. Birddog is the name of one of the restricted feeds of Twitter data, you can read more about it here. ...