May242010
The Twitter Platform
Enduring ValueWhen we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API to the platform’s functionality, and ensuring the long-term health and value of the user experience…
Ecosystem Clarity
We heard loud and clear at our Chirp Developer Conference last month that developers desire clarity—clarity about what we believe Twitter must provide, what Twitter looks to the ecosystem to provide, and where the lines, if any, are drawn. We have outlined above the services and responsibilities we will provide in the context of the platform. In order to provide further clarity to the ecosystem, we will also be specific about the boundaries we will draw in order to preserve the integrity, health, and value of the network…
Fostering Innovation
There has never been more opportunity for innovation on the Twitter platform than there is now. In order to continue to provide clarity, our guiding principles include: (full article…
Twitter Blog | The Twitter Platform (by Dick Costolo @dickc)
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March302010
Twitter Launches A New, Dynamic Homepage
All of our recent changes embrace the notion that Twitter is not just for status updates anymore. It’s a network where information is exchanged and consumed at a rapid clip every second of the day. With so much being shared, we know that there’s something of value for everyone. People who internalize the value of Twitter understand the power of this simple medium. But it hasn’t been easy to make that value transparent or obvious for curious folks coming to Twitter for the first time. (full article…)
Twitter Blog | Tweaking the Twitter homepage (by @stop)
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January62010
Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers
[ I need your help! If you landed here by following a link, would you please take a short moment to leave a comment about whether or not you find my posting format (abstract w/link to full article) of value to you, and what, if anything, you would change about this technique? Any other comments are always welcome. I appreciate your feedback, thanks! -@93octane ]
Does that mean Twitter’s follower counts are lying? No. Instead, Twitter accounts that have over half a million followers listed actually represent (at most) a few hundred thousand people who’ve chosen to become organic followers of someone, along with millions who are passively along for the ride. Some of them are inactive users, some are spammers, some just ignore the noise of the accounts that don’t interest them, like spam in an email inbox. But they can’t count as “followers” in any meaningful sense. A few people have asked what my goal is in writing about the experience of being on the [Twitter’s suggested user] list…Well, perhaps the best way to articulate it is that I think the list is being used as a useful fiction for distorting the value and promise of this new medium. (full article…)
Anil Dash | Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers
January52010
Twitter Kicks Off 2010 Hiring People Away From Google, Bebo, Ning And More
Starting today at the new Twitter offices in San Francisco are no less than 10 new staff members in a variety of roles. The biggest fish Twitter caught is likely Bakari Brock
, a former attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton who has served as Corporate Counsel for YouTube and Google since September 2007.
It’s not only Google losing key staff to Twitter, though. [Louis] Gray also tracked these people, who are likely starting at Twitter today:
- Paul Soals
- Nancy Broden
- Florian Leibert
- (full article…)
TechCrunch | Twitter Kicks Off 2010 Hiring People Away From Google, Bebo, Ning And More (by Robin Wauters
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December302009
Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features
Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver followed up on earlier public announcements this weekend with an email to developers explaining plans to raise the limit on the number of times an application can request information from Twitter for a single user to 10 times what it is today (from 150 req/hr to 1500/hr), and to offer everyone the same kind of paid access to the full “fire hose” of user updates that Google and Bing enjoy. (full article…)
ReadWriteWeb | Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features by Marshall Kirkpatrick
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December42009
Next year’s Twitter? It’s Foursquare
As 2009 draws to a close, with Twitter undoubtedly this year’s media darling and Facebook continuing on its path to global domination, you may wonder which social-media service will become tech’s poster boy in 2010. Among the Web’s early adopter set, the answer is nearly unanimous: Foursquare (full article…).
CNN.com | Next year’s Twitter? It’s Foursquare (by Pete Cashmore, Mashable)
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