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Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams’ Blogging Platform Medium Opens Signups To All
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has a new blogging platform called Medium, which has been a closed-signup affair since its introduction. Today, the platform sent out an email with the news that anyone can now sign in and start writing. Read More
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Lots Of Hollywood Interest In Making Bilton’s Twitter Book A Movie
Interest is swirling at Sony and several other major Hollywood studios around Nick Bilton’s book “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal“, TechCrunch has learned. While we’ve only heard Sony named, word is several other major studios are nibbling at the worm. At least one of the studios involved wants to explore producing the project as an HBO or… Read More
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Twitter’s IPO Roadshow Video Unites Dorsey, Stone And Williams, Emphasizes News And Media Uses
Twitter has posted media related to its upcoming IPO Roadshow, scheduled to begin next week. The video accompanying the posting unites Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey, who all pitch the company to investors together. Seeing all of the founders together pitching the company wouldn’t be such a strange thing with any other firm. But there have been some recent… Read More
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Vine Update Lets Users Edit Videos, Save Multiple Drafts
Vine, Twitter's six-second looping video app, has just released an update that brings two new big features to the video-sharing platform: Sessions and Time Travel. Time Travel essentially lets you edit videos, which has always been something Vine was very rigid about. In the past, you could never go back in time with Vine, but would rather have to shoot continuously without a mistake. With… Read More
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Twitter Sets Up $1 Billion Credit Line, MoPub Had $6.5M In Revenue In First Half Of 2013
Twitter has just announced via an S-1 amendment that "the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement with certain lenders which provides for a $1.0 billion revolving unsecured credit facility maturing on October 22, 2018." The credit could help Twitter if it suddenly wanted to make an acquisition, expand, or pay for unforeseen costs. Read More
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Twitter’s #Music App Could Be On The Way Out, Says New Report
Twitter's #Music app, which offered social music discovery culled from activity on the 140-character sharing service, is reportedly nearing the end of its brief life, according to a new report from AllThingsD. Twitter is "strongly considering" shuttering the mobile app, after its download and usage numbers have dropped precipitously following a respectable launch. Read More
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In Which Jack Dorsey Reads Us Some Poetry And Lists And Plays Us A Jazz Tune
Jack Dorsey seems to be at the tech world's center of attention over the last few weeks, thanks to a series of articles and an upcoming discussing the early days of Twitter, and whether or not he screwed over friends and coworkers in the early going. But the co-founder of Twitter, which also just happens to be in a quiet period while it prepares for IPO, sidestepped any unnecessary or awkward… Read More
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Twitter Exec Makes Really Inopportune BART Strike Joke
The thing about race, class, religion and gender is that, for the most part, it is out of people's control. This all-encompassing feeling of lack of control is why when chronically underpaid service professionals like teachers or transport workers strike, there is an equally out of control discussion around the societal and economic value of these professionals. It becomes the real life version… Read More
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A Standalone Messaging App Is The Last Thing Twitter Needs
Despite being one of the most popular and powerful social networks on the planet, Twitter is far from perfect. With only a quarter of the 1 billion registered accounts actively using the service, the platform clearly lacks mainstream appeal. So what's missing? According to AllThingsD today, Twitter may be launching a standalone messaging app to compete with the likes of Line, KakaoTalk and… Read More
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Twitter’s Theoretically Temporary URL Messaging Ban Due To Massive Wave Of DM Spam
Late yesterday afternoon many Twitter users began to notice that they could no longer send Direct Messages containing URLs. The complaints about the issue gained steam late into the night, when we reported that Twitter said a ‘technical issue’ was behind the problem with DMs. Updates below. Well, it turns out that the technical issue may have been referring to the handling of Direct… Read More
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Bluefin’s Deb Roy Sees Twitter As The Shared Semiotic Bridge For All Live Experiences
Today at Wired's 2013 event in London, Twitter's Deb Roy (co-founder of TV social impact analytics firm Bluefin Labs, acquired by Twitter earlier this year), the MIT researcher discussed how his company took the academic subject of semiotics and made it something "central" to the future of Twitter's business. On essentially the eve (generally speaking) of Twitter's IPO, Roy's discussion provides… Read More
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Twitter Says A ‘Technical Issue’ Is Preventing URLs From Being Sent In Direct Messages For Some
Earlier this afternoon Twitter users began experiencing difficulty sending URLs or ‘links’ via Direct Message. Depending on the client used, error messages popped up that indicated the DMs being sent included links to ‘malware’, or simply indicated that the message could not be sent. A Twitter spokesperson said only that “there is a technical issue with URLs in Direct… Read More
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Twitter User Growth Decelerating: +6% In Q3 To 231.7 Million Now Vs +10% In Q1
Twitter's percent user growth is slowing. In a new S-1 amendment to its IPO filing, Twitter notes it hit 231.7 million monthly users by at the end of Q3 2013, up 6.13% from 218.3 million at the end of Q2. If you look back, you'll see Twitter had 6.86% growth in Q2, 10.27% in Q1, and 10.77% in Q4 2012. The slowing growth could indicate trouble signing up new users or retaining older ones. Read More
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Twitter Announces It Will List On The NYSE Under TWTR
Twitter has amended its S-1 filing to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was omitted from the original filing. The new document was uploaded to its EDGAR archive today. There is still no valuation or IPO estimation listed in the document. Twitter notes that it now has 230 million MAUs, marking a growth of 15 million MAUs over the last… Read More
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Twitter Solves The Follow-Back Tango, Enables Direct Messages From All Your Followers
Twitter has pushed out a feature update that is extremely useful for journalists like myself, and anyone else who hopes to use Twitter to communicate both publicly and privately. The social network now lets you receive Direct Messages from any of your followers, regardless of whether you follow them or not. Read More
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iTunes Radio Product Manager Gareth Paul Jones Joins Twitter To Work On Ad Partnerships
Apple product manager Gareth Paul Jones is leaving the company to join Twitter, he announced in a tweet. According to Jones' LinkedIn profile, he was a product manager on iTunes Radio (which recently launched as part of iOS 7), and he's also worked as a product manager at TRUSTe and as an engineer at Google. We wrote about Jones when he launched a site called TechCompanyPay after leaving… Read More
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Twitter Plans To Use What You Follow And Tweet To Target MoPub Ads On Other Apps. Here’s How
Everything that happens on Twitter could become fuel for targeting off-site ads run through its recent ad network acquisition MoPub, according to the Financial Times' sources. In theory, users logged in to Twitter could see ads related to who they follow and words they tweet on sites with MoPub-powered ads. Twitter could then earn money on its data rather than by showing more ads on its service. Read More
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You’re Not Just The Product, You’re The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You)
Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online, tech giants have found a way to grab people's attention: using your name, face, and words. Are we okay with that? Maybe we should be. Read More
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Twitter Launches An Android Tablet Optimized App For The First Time — On One Tablet
In what is a poignant statement about the state of Android tablet apps, Twitter has announced the first tablet-optimized version for the platform. It’s been 3 years since the iPad hit and Android tablets have blown up in the meantime, but this is the first time they’re being served with a real app. Twitter says that the app is rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 first but will… Read More
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Twitter Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment
Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication. An account called @eventparrot has garnered around 1,500 followers and promises to deliver ‘direct messages that help you keep up with what’s happening in the world’. Update: Yep, it’s official, the account has just been… Read More