Yes, you may tweet from the North Pole
Twitter’s uses get stranger and stranger as people outfit hardware to tweet on the social network.
There’s a device that that will tweet when bread is ready out of a baker’s oven and Kickbee’s a product that tweets whenever a baby kicks inside its pregnant mother…. Continue Reading
Sorry Morgan Stanley, Twitter forgot to mention you
When Twitter announced its latest round of funding on Friday, it oddly left out one investor: Morgan Stanley.
The investment bank put less than $10 million into the financing round that reportedly valued the company at $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. (Twitter later… Continue Reading
Twitter confirms its latest round; no word on size
Twitter confirmed its latest round of funding, reportedly valuing it at $1 billion. The new investors are Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price. Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital raised their existing investments in the microblogging network.
The company didn’t release any info… Continue Reading
Trendsmap gives us a look at Twitter’s location API possibilities
While Twitter gears up to release a way to let users share their exact coordinates every time they tweet, Australian developers have given us a hint of such a service’s possibilities with Trendsmap.
Developers at Melbourne, Australia-based Stateless Systems have taken latitudinal and longitudinal data from… Continue Reading
Report: Twitter may close $100 million round today
Twitter, the microblogging upstart, is close to raising as much as $100 million in new funding today, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The previously unreported new investor is T. Rowe Price. New York-based Insight Venture Partners is the other new player, as previously reported, while… Continue Reading
MySpace adds two-way Twitter connection
Social network site MySpace is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon. It’s letting users sync their status updates with Twitter, adding another social networking service to the list of companies integrating with the fast-growing microblogging network. (See right for an example.)
The News Corp.-owned property is using… Continue Reading
How accurate are BAM Investor’s stock predictions? Check Twitter
BAM Investor, a company that provides stock market predictions to hedge funds, boasts that it has an “uncanny” record of predicting crucial market shifts. Of course, unless you’re one of the institutional investors buying predictions from BAM, it’s hard to know whether to take those… Continue Reading
One billion users, $1 billion: how did Twitter get the numbers?
A company valued by its private investors at $1 billion, with nary any revenue in sight?
Color most traditional investors incredulous.
But the company — and its investors — must have justified its value somehow. Earlier this summer, leaked company documents showed Twitter was gunning for 1 billion… Continue Reading
Seesmic and TweetDeck: Two ways to immerse yourself in your social nets
Do you still use Facebook and Twitter by opening facebook.com and twitter.com in a browser? Or, have you tried using a desktop client to organize all the incoming status updates, tweets, comments, and other notifications into one little window on the side of your computer’s… Continue Reading
Report: Insight Venture Partners is new Twitter investor
Who’s responsible for boosting Twitter’s valuation to around $1 billion?
It looks like East Coast money. New York-based Insight Venture Partners is the new firm backing the fast-growing microblogging network, according to TechCrunch. With more than $3 billion, Insight is a late-stage, private equity buyout fund,… Continue Reading
Report: Twitter close to another round at $1 billion valuation
Twitter is closing in on another round, valuing the company at around $1 billion.
CEO Evan Williams recently told employees about the fundraising at an all-hands meeting, TechCrunch reported. The startup last raised $35 million in February from Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital, making a… Continue Reading
TC50: Dick Costolo on becoming Twitter’s new COO
Twitter chief operations officer Dick Costolo spoke briefly about his new position at the fast-growing microblogging network during the TechCrunch50 trade show in San Francisco.
Costolo, who sold Feedburner to Google two years ago for $100 million, started at Twitter last week. Costolo presumably never needs to… Continue Reading
Facebook adds support for Twitter-like @ symbol
Facebook is now supporting the @ symbol for tagging friends in posts and status updates. The company said last week it would move toward adopting the convention, which started on Twitter.
The symbol has been part of Twitter etiquette for a long time. When you want… Continue Reading
Facebook adopts Twitterspeak for tagging friends in updates
Facebook is taking cues from Twitter’s playbook by supporting the ‘@’ symbol when you want to tag friends in a status update or post.
The symbol has been part of Twitter’s grammar for a long time. When you want to say something publicly to someone, or… Continue Reading
Twitter reveals one more branch of its retention strategy
Despite its massive growth, Twitter has always had a big user retention problem: most people who sign-up don’t get it.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed a bit more today about how he plans to resolve that. The company’s designers are working on a search function that… Continue Reading
AIM sends and receives status updates from Twitter, Facebook
A social hub born in the 1990s is finding new life by piggy-backing off today’s ones.
AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) is becoming a proper Twitter and Facebook client, letting you send status updates to both social networks and receive a feed about your friend’s items. Before… Continue Reading
bit.ly launches even shorter URL shortener j.mp
Name-shortening service bit.ly is Twitter’s default service for scrunching long Web addresses into short ones that leave more room for text in users’ tweets. Twitter switched from previous provider TinyURL.com in May. At the time, a New York Times report suggested that reliability was a… Continue Reading
While you were tweeting, RSS fund quietly died
Yesterday, Twitter announced the hiring of FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo to be COO of Twitter. Costolo’s career path from one of the most prominent RSS companies to Twitter is being talked about as proof that “RSS is dead.”
peHub writer Dam Primack circled back to find… Continue Reading
Is social media worth your marketing dollars?
As social media has reached mainstream consciousness this year, businesses have been inundated with the message that they must immediately get on board or risk doom and calamity. The hyperbole (and the frenzied buzz it creates) is confusing and many businesses could use a practical… Continue Reading
Twitter ups ante on RSS by recruiting Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo
The race between Twitter and RSS readers to be the best personalized source of news just got a little more interesting. Former Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo is joining Twitter as its new chief operations officer starting next week, the company tell us.
Costolo left Google in… Continue Reading