San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter has announced Early Bird, a service build around promoted tweets. Early Bird aims advertise special promotions based on tweet and account patterns to Twitter users. Deals will be time- and supply-sensitive, according to Twitter. "We partner with select advertisers and retweet offers that they have crafted only for the Twitter community," [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Smallthought Systems, a company that tracks user trends from websites, was acquired by Twitter. The microblogging site obviously wants to increase its analytics capabilities using the analytical dashboard Trendly before fully jumping into its Promoted Tweets advertising program. Twitter did already use Smallthought's Dabble DB online database that allows applications to run [...]
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 [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): A new advertising platform that will display advertiser backed Tweets was unveiled by Twitter. Partners for the new service called Promoted Tweets include Sony Pictures, Red Bull, Starbucks, Virgin America, Bravo and Best Buy. "Over the years, we've resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model because we wanted to optimize for value [...]
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 [...]
