Twitter to natively support Retweets, launch API
A quirky habit in the Twitter community is finally finding acceptance from the mothership.
Retweets, a way of sharing ideas or content already posted by another user on the microblogging site, will become natively supported by Twitter. The company’s also launching several application programming interfaces that will create retweets, display them in a distinctive way, and track them in a user’s account.
“Retweeting has become one of the cultural conventions of the Twitter experience,” wrote Marcel Molina,… Continue Reading
Twitter vs Tehran goes into overtime
For non-Twitterati, here’s the 140-character version of today’s news: They’ve finally found a use for Twitter. Iranians protesting last Friday’s suspiciously heavy 66% vote for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have been using it to end-run the state media in Tehran’s largest protests since 1979, the year in which militant students captured and held 52 American hostages for over a year.
You can track the current situation by bookmarking a Twitter search for #IranElection. Twitter’s management earlier today decided to… Continue Reading
Twitter conference mixes #work and #play
Sunday’s all-day TWTRCON event in San Francisco drew a couple hundred attendees looking for ways to make money off Twitter’s still-growing popularity. Blogger/photographer/PR guy Brian Solis and journalist-turned-capitalist Gina Smith were among the many bright minds to be found in the hallway.
You can catch up on the event on Twitter, but here’s the gist of what I’m hearing: Right now a lot of people think of Twitter as a cool new place to hang out. Thanks to Twitter’s simple… Continue Reading
Google Trends shows drops in Twitter news coverage, search volume
After a day of intriguing claims about Twitter — younger people don’t use it so much; men follow each other and nobody tweets — here’s something else. Google Trends, the search engine’s automated site analysis service, is showing a drastic drop in “news reference volume” about Twitter, with a relatively less but still noticeable drop in the volume of searches for the micro-blogging service.
How to interpret Google Trends? Through the prism with which you view… Continue Reading
TwitPub aims to bring marketplace to Twitter
TwitPub has set up shop as a Twitter marketplace — that is, a place where you can, say, sell horoscopes or stock tips on Twitter and make money from Twitter users who subscribe to your offering. TwitPub calls these subscriptions “premium tweets.”
All you need to get started is a private Twitter account or an account that has its updates protected. From there, you sign up for a TwitPub account, and the service automates the process… Continue Reading