To be sung in sexy, Marilyn Monroe voice… “Happy birthday, Mr. Twitter, happy birthday to you!” Did you know that Twitter just turned five? It’s true.  Twitter was launched publicly on July 15, 2006.  It’s pretty amazing to think about where Twitter has gone since it first launched. Where were YOU five years ago?  See [...]

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Relax, Twitter users, all is well with the world.  It looks like the predicted Twitpocalypse has been averted. Twitter got proactive and, rather than wait around for disaster to strike, they triggered the cataclysmic event today instead.  It seems to have worked. “As planned, we averted the twitpocalypse with a deploy this afternoon,” Twitter co-founder [...]

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Despite various rumors floating around the internet, Twitter has not settled with Tony LaRussa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals manager, over an account impersonation case. Twitter is not going to sit back and take this one on the chin, write co-founder Biz Stone.  After all, what kind of precedent would that set?  Next [...]

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Despite the rumors that were running rampant around the web yesterday, Twitter now denies that there is a potential TV show in the works. Twitter’s Biz Stone has, however, confirmed that Twitter did in fact enter into an agreement with Reveille and Brillstein for a Television show, but states that this is not an “official” [...]

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Twitter might have brought themselves back from the dead after yesterday’s suicidal #fixreplies fail. Today, they posted a fairly sincere apology and explanation for yesterday’s debacle.  Twitter co-founder Biz Stone explained that, in his first post, he really should have discussed the technical issue at hand as well as the product design problem. He also [...]

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Google is buying Twitter. No they’re not. Yes, they are. Well, maybe. That’s basically how the blogosphere looks this morning. Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that Google was in “late stage talks” to buy Twitter.  Quote: “Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter.” Not so fast.  They later posted that the talks were actually [...]

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Twitter does in fact have a business plan and an idea of how it is going to monetize itself.  Its investors just aren’t going to tell you what it is yet. Todd Dagres, the founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that invested another $35 million in Twitter recently, laughs it off when [...]

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