search.twitter.com - 3/19/2009
businessinsider.com - 3/25/2009
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businessinsider.com —
More revenue for Twitter on the way: The
company confirms -- for the first time we've seen,...
at least -- age-old theories that they'll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using Twitter. In exchange for a fee, companies will get ...
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Twitter Confirms Paid Pro Accounts On The Way
micropersuasion.com - 3/20/2009
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micropersuasion.com —
Twitter traffic data from comScore ( via TechCrunch
) I have been active Twitter user since January...
2007 . And it's been remarkable just how much it has changed since. In the last six months, Twitter has gone nuclear . There are three reasons why and ...
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Twitter is Peaking
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Twitterville Falls For Premium Accounts Hoax
TechCrunch —
It was mildly funny and very obviously a hoax, but this article on humour site BBspot didn’t stop many a Twitter user from thinking it is real.
The author of the post mocks Twitter’s lack of an apparent business model after 3 years in operation, and writes that the startup’s CEO Evan Williams today finally announced plans to introduce a paid premium account scheme. Never mind that the news would have gotten broken on an obscure blog when the U.S. is mostly asleep, but other things should have given away that this concerns a ...
Users outraged by Twitter's Premium Paid Accounts
TG Daily - All News —
... . I had been punked, hoaxed, duped, and so had the most of the Twittersphere . Twitter didn't have a new plan. It was just a concoction created to do exactly what it did: Fool us. The ...
Users outraged, falling for "Twitter's Premium Paid Accounts" hoax
TG Daily - All News —
... . I had been punked, hoaxed, duped, and so had the most of the Twittersphere . Twitter didn't have a new plan. It was just a concoction created to do exactly what it did: Fool us. Unfortunately for both users and Twitter as a site, many people still ...
Twitter ‘Premium Accounts’ Fake
Screenwerk —
... An article was published announcing “Twitter premium accounts.” It’s fake but it raises an interesting question: would you pay and if so how much?
I would pay about $20 per year I think.
Through this hoax Twitter also gets a bit of a focus group on these questions.
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News Bits: Sony, Google Gang Up on Kindle
Contentinople: —
... points out, many did not , even after reading this bit of subtlety: In other sad Twitter news: Twitter has been banned from an NBA locker room. Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles had told forward Charlie Villanueva he ...
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arstechnica.com 3/26/2009 —
After three years, three rounds of funding , and a lot of speculation, Twitter has finally confirmed that it will introduce paid accounts that offer enhanced features. There is no word on when these accounts will arrive, but they will ...
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Google Accounts Help
google.com 11/11/2008 — You can allow anyone with a Google Account to send you a message through your profile, without ever revealing your email address to them. To enable this feature, click Edit profile and select the 'Messages' option on the far right. When you save this ...
Phishers hijack 750+ Twitter accounts
betanews.com 3/7/2009 — Trend Micro is reporting, and Twitter confirms, that Twitter users are once again under attack by people who need to upgrade their ethics. Targets receive a tweet from someone claiming to be female, 23, and in possession of a webcam. Click the link ...
Twitter May Begin Charging for Commercial Accounts
technologizer.com 2/11/2009 — Twitter may yet prove that it is more than the gilded plaything of venture capitalists , and a productivity killer for those of us who tweet while we should be working. In an interview with UK-based Marketing newspaper, co-founder Biz Stone said ...
Twitter premium account hoax fools Twitterverse
blogs.zdnet.com 3/20/2009 — Ever been to Brian Briggs’ fake tech news site BBSpot? A whole lot of people have today after it was reported that Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams “today announced part of the company’s long-awaited business model: Twitter ...
TinyURL, your configs are showing —
The Register 3/18/2009
Twitter pal leaves server wide open TinyURL - the site that converts unwieldy web addresses into short, manageable URLs - has been caught running a server so poorly configured it represents a serious risk to its millions of trusting users, a ...
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