Tweets equal dollars for Obama and Romney, according to Twitter

Tweets equal dollars, according to Twitter.

Exclusive: Buffer partners with “#1 Twitter client” TweetCaster to make you more popular

Social engagement tool Buffer will be announcing an integration with top Twitter web and mobile client TweetCaster tonight.

Buffer tweets for you, when the time is right

Buffer, a social network scheduling service, chooses when to send out your status updates for you and just added LinkedIn to its repertoire, along with Facebook and Twitter.

Several companies have taken on the service of scheduling tweets and Facebook …

Mojang reveals 20M registered users for Minecraft

In a tweet sent out on Saturday, Markus Persson, aka Notch, the developer behind gaming sensation Minecraft, made note of the 20 million registered user milestone. He joked,

“Minecraft now has 20 million registered users. At 70 kg each, that’s …

Facebook adds “subscribe” function to profiles

Social networking titan Facebook today unveiled a “subscribe” feature, which adds news feed updates to a user’s profile from other profiles without having to become “friends” on the site.

Any updates a Facebook user posts publicly go into news feeds …

Twitter starts rolling out promoted Tweets

Twitter has started rolling out “promoted Tweets,” which Twitter users will see regardless of who they follow, the company announced Tuesday afternoon.

“Promoted Tweets are entering a new phase,” the company said in a statement. “We’re expanding testing in the …

Twitter barking up Twittad’s tree over slogan using the word “tweet”

Someone’s got their feathers in a ruffle. Twitter is suing Twittad, a marketing company focused on promoting through Twitter, over the use of the word “tweet” in its slogan, “Let Your Ad Meet Tweets.”

Twitter told TechCrunch, “Twitter’s organic growth …

Twitter confirms investment from Facebook, Zynga investor DST

Twitter today confirmed that it is raising a large funding round from Russia’s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.

“Now we have an opportunity to expand Twitter’s reach with a significant round of funding led …

Regulatory filing indicates Twitter raising $400M round

Twitter is raising $400 million in its seventh round of funding, according to documents uncovered by venture capital information service VCExperts.

The company is issuing around 10.1 million shares of Series G-1 preferred stock and 14.8 million shares of Series …

Twitter raising $400M round, valued at $8B

Micro-blogging service Twitter is in the process of raising $400 million in funding that would value the company at $8 billion, according to a report by the New York Times.

The site has more than 300 million registered users who …

200 million Tweets flow through the Twittersphere daily

Micro-blogging service Twitter said its users now send short messages called tweets more than 200 million times every day.

Whether the messages convey bits of conversations, the latest news or something from one of the site’s thousands of novelty accounts, …