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Tweetbot for the Mac is now live
MacStories reports: I’ll get to the point right away. Tweetbot is, in my opinion, the best Twitter client for Mac. From my perspective, no other app gets closer to the amount of polish and functionality that Tapbots poured into their latest creation, making it the most powerful, fast, and elegant Twitter app I’ve seen on […]
Continue reading...Twitter for Mac development is done
Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Well this blows. Twitter for Mac, which is essentially Tweetie for Mac developed by Loren Brichter before it was acquired by Twitter will no longer see any new releases, this according to a tweet from MG Siegler about a week ago. So yes, that sucks, and part of an ongoing trend from Twitter where they […]
Continue reading...The value of Twitter’s social graph, and the importance of keeping others out
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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With all of the hoopla regarding Twitters new terms of service for developers, the always insightful Dustin Curtis drops some knowledge on some key, albeit subtle, differences between Facebook and Twitter. Curtis also opines on the reasoning behind Twitter’s recent decision to pull a feature (accessible via its API) which enabled Tumblr users to search […]
Continue reading...The problem with advertising on Twitter and Facebook
Thursday, March 15, 2012
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Not every medium lends itself to advertising, even if we’re talking about tends if not hundreds of millions of active users. Sir Martin Sorrel insightfully points out: The point is that Facebook is a social medium, not an advertising one, like search or display. It certainly is one of the most powerful, if not the […]
Continue reading...Loren Brichter leaves Twitter
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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Whether you’ve heard of Loren Brichter or not, if you use a mobile version of Twitter, you can thank Brichter for providing such a great user experience. Brichter, who formerly worked as an engineer at Apple, left the company a few years back to start his own development company called Atebits. One of Brichter’s projects […]
Continue reading...Gary Vaynerchuk – 250 million tweets/day equals less meaningful tweets [Video]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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An interesting video from Gary Vaynerchuk where he explains why it’s getting harder and harder for tweets to be meaningful given the firehose of information we now have to sift through on Twitter.
Continue reading...Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Steve Jobs
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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The outpouring of emotion, memories, and tributes to Steve Jobs is immense. We’re still sorting through it but thought this tweet from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo nails it. “Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn’t just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.” When Steve Jobs introduced the […]
Continue reading...Robert Scoble tweets that iOS 5 will feature deep Twitter integration
Friday, June 3, 2011
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Corroborating previous reports, Robert Scoble tweeted earlier that Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 update will feature deep, deep Twitter integration. News of joint Apple/Twitter cooperation first surfaced earlier this week with a TechCrunch report that iOS 5 will enable users to share images directly to Twitter much like how video footage can immediately be uploaded to […]
Continue reading...iOS 5 rumored to come with system-level Twitter integration
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Now that we know Steve Jobs will officially handle the keynote duties at WWDC, we can get back to your regularly scheduled programming of iOS 5 rumors. To be honest, iOS 5 rumors have been hard to come by aside from wide sweeping reports of a focus on location awareness and voice recognition. But TechCrunch […]
Continue reading...Twitter lays the hammer down on third party clients
Sunday, March 13, 2011
TechCrunch reports: Specifically, Platform lead Ryan Sarver has a fairly lengthy outline of Twitter’s line of thinking with regard to third-party clients and services. And while there’s a little bit of dancing around the topic at first, it quickly gets very clear: third-parties shouldn’t be creating straight-up Twitter clients any further.
Continue reading...Twitter’s numbers
Saturday, March 12, 2011
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Twitter has over 200 million registered users but only a small percentage of those users are actually active – 25 million to be exact. And of that 25 million sampling, only 7 million users are “meaningfully active.” via PC Mag
Continue reading...How Charlie Sheen got verified on Twitter so fast
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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Charlie Sheen has been off his rocker lately, saying, among other things, that he’s not bi-polar, but “bi-winner.” Yesterday, Sheen created a Twitter account to tell his side of a story that has been spiraling out of control. In about a day, Sheen’s Twitter account has amassed over 1 million followers. Moreover, Sheen was able […]
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
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