Industry experts say @anywhere could be crucial for the company's upcoming ad platform and for its continued usage growth
Many South by Southwest attendees reportedly walked out halfway through the keynote appearance by Twitter CEO Evan Williams this week citing boredom, but the announcement he made on stage deserves careful attention, according to industry experts.
A general site outage took down access to the site for almost 30 minutes
Users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter were unable to access the site for almost 30 minutes early Wednesday.
Called @anywhere, the technology involves dropping a few lines of javascript into a Web page, and no APIs
Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets Web publishers display 'tweets' on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the company's APIs (application programming interfaces).
Twitter turned on its geolocation feature Thursday allowing you to tell share your location when you tweet.
Twitter users can now add their current location to their tweets. The micro-blogging service on Thursday activated an optional new feature that appends geographical information to your posts.
A new location-sharing tool lets you tell the Twitterverse where you are
Twitter knows where you are -- at least in the U.S.
Author Mark O'Neill explains what the service does, why it's actually worth using, and how to sign up for an account
Still not sure what the heck Twitter is or why you'd want to use it? I understand completely: Friends and family members are constantly asking me, "What the heck is Twitter, and why would I want to use it?"
Intel and other companies pour $20 million into the company to get insight into real-time user behavior
Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday.
Criminals jump on Ashton Kutcher
Criminals started targeting Twitter in earnest during a key period in early 2009, and security company Barracuda Labs has worked out why. During the same few weeks a key list of a-list celebrities joined the site.
Twitter will shorten some links sent through the service to twt.tl
Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
Barracuda Networks finds most Twitter users not committed, but numbers are improving
A study released today supports the oft stated notion that most of Twitter's 75 million registered users are less than committed to the microblogging site.
UMPC distributor revamps website and hunts for more resellers to prepare itself for a tablet PC explosion.
Tegatech is banking on riding the tablet PC wave, overhauling its website as part of a reseller recruitment drive in anticipation of big business this year.
Online poll to save under threat 6Music and Asian Network
In what is a familiar response to unwelcome news, the power of social networking and online campaigning is being used in a bid to secure the future of two radio stations seemingly under threat as a result of BBC cutbacks.
A Twitter phishing attack has hit several prominent British Twitter users
The latest phishing attack on Twitter users swept the U.K. overnight claiming several prominent users.
Google, Twitter, Facebook and others are being used to offer and seek help and information
After Chile's massive earthquake and potential Pacific Rim tsunami damage, relief organizations, government agencies, corporations and throngs of people are on Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other services to seek and provide information and help.
From tech celebs to hidden gems, our Mac expert names 10 sources whose Apple-related tweets he couldn't do without.
Who knew that "140 characters or less" could change the way people interact?
