Thursday, September 9th, 2010

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter is closing in on two billion tweets per month. The microblogging site reports that its users sent about 65 million tweets per day, or 44,500 tweets per minute. At the end of March, Twitter announced that it had reached 15 billion tweets. The new activity milestone comes only months after the [...]

San Francisco (ip-192.com): A new Twitter client application is available for phones running on Google's Android operating system 2.1 and up. The Android app will allow users to access and share tweets and pictures, view trending topics, and use the timeline widget on the home screen. One of the more interesting features is the ability [...]

Waterloo (ip-192.com): A new application co-developed by Twitter and Research in Motion (RIM) will allow BlackBerry users to interact with the popular micro-blogging site "on the go." Currently available as a public beta, the application can be set to notify users of new tweets or mentions. Through an intuitive menu bar, users can upload pictures [...]

San Francisco (ip-192.com): 50 Million Tweets per day and counting: this is the amount of coverage Twitter users produce now, said Kevin Weil, an analyst with the micro blogging site. These numbers do not include Tweets from accounts identified as spam. Added up, this amounts to about 1.5 billion Tweets a month. In 2007, Twitter [...]

San Francisco (ip-192.com): You can Tweet on and enjoy the weekend – Twitter is set to raise about $100 million of new funding that would value the company at around $1 billion. This is remarkable since Twitter has big plans but no discernible revenue yet. However, the 60-employee company is teetering with advertising on its [...]

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter has announced that it will release API’s to third-party developers so that users can connect based on latitude and longitude preferences. According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, the company has been working on the service for a while. Location based services become more important as users move to smart-phones to Tweet. [...]