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Loren Brichter leaves Twitter
By John Hiesler: 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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Apple creates official Twitter account for the iTunes App Store
Monday, January 24, 2011
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Apple this evening unveiled an official Twitter account for the iTunes App Store where users can get info about new and exciting apps in addition to being privy to exclusive offers. Since launching a few hours ago, the number of followers has skyrocketed to 39,000+. As you might expect, the official name for the account [...]
Continue reading...Tweetie 2.0 will be available on the Mac App Store tomorrow
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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Razorianfly got an exclusive sneak peek at Tweetie 2.0 for the Mac. The brain child of former Apple engineer Loren Brichter, Tweetie originally found fame as an elegant and popular Twitter app for the iPhone. Building upon that success, Brichter released a desktop version of the software in April of 2009. Now, a little over [...]
Continue reading...Apple Senior VP of Marketing Phil Schiller is all up in Twitter
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of marketing is all up in Twitter ya’ll, haven’t you heard? Though a member for over two years, Schiller didn’t tweet very much, if at all, until 9to5Mac noticed a flurry of activity from Schiller’s account recently. Somewhat impressively, when you consider how secretive Apple is, Schiller not only posts [...]
Continue reading...Apple and Twitter strike deal over Ping/Twitter integration
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Twitter today announced that it would be integrating Ping, Apple’s social networking service in iTunes, with Twitter. Users will now be able to share musical discoveries, song previews, and links to purchased and downloaded music from iTunes right into their Tweets. On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users [...]
Continue reading...Official Twitter app for the iPad is now available for download
Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Loren Brichter is up to his old tricks, having worked on the recently released Twitter app for the iPad. It’s available as a free universal binary and can be downloaded here. Below is a video of the app in action. \ Engadget has a review of the app over here.
Continue reading...Loren Brichter working on “amazing” Twitter client?
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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Or so it would appear from this tweet he sent out on Monday afternoon. Brichter, of course, is the mastermind behind the Tweetie iPhone app, which was subsequently purchased by Twitter and repackaged as their default Twitter client. But who knows what other concoction Brichter has cooking up in the labs, Tweetie for the iPad perhaps?
Continue reading...Scott Forstall, Apple’s Senior VP of iOS software, joins Twitter
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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It’s verified and good to go. Apple’s Senior VP of iOS software, Scott Forstall, is up on Twitter and as of now is only following one person, Conan O’Brien. Apple is notorious about keeping Apple employees from blogging and the like, so it’ll be interesting to see what Scott ends up using his Twitter account [...]
Continue reading...Roger Ebert pulls a 180 on Twitter
Saturday, June 12, 2010
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The alway eloquent Roger Ebert has pulled a complete 180 on Twitter. No longer a critic, he’s now a fan. And an addicted one, at that. I vowed I would never become a Twit. Now I have Tweeted nearly 10,000 Tweets. I said Twitter represented the end of civilization. It now represents a part of [...]
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
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