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• Twitter to promote marketers' special offers

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 July, 2010 05:42

  Twitter has introduced another advertising service, hoping to generate revenue this time by promoting special offers, events and one-time deals from marketers.

• Twitter application Grader.com hacked

  By Robert McMillan | 12 February, 2010 07:50

  A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.

• Twitter Local Trends: What's the tweet in your area?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 28 January, 2010 07:08

  People logging on to their Twitter accounts this morning found a new feature waiting for them.

• It's the first Twitter-only mobile device, but why?

  By David Coursey | 04 November, 2009 04:28

  How much would you pay for a mobile device that does only one thing: Send and receive Tweets? A company called Peek is betting $199 and has created just such a device.

• Report: Twitter to release revenue-generating feature in Q4

  By Sharon Gaudin | 10 September, 2009 05:05

  Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the companmy expects to add revenue-generating features to the microblogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report today on Bloomberg.com.

• Twitter helps users track tweets by location

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 August, 2009 05:12

  Interested in tracking the Twitterers in your city or even your neighborhood? Or maybe you want to track the tweets sent from an area where there's a major event or disaster?

• Developers eager to see Twitter improve platform stability

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 August, 2009 05:32

  Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company's platform stability.

• Twitter: latest application platform problems solved

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 18 August, 2009 12:56

  The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.

• Twitter down on Saturday, external apps to be affected

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 August, 2009 05:14

  Twitter experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API.

• App developers stung by Twitter's DOS woes

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 August, 2009 05:04

  Developers who built applications for Twitter and generate money from them have been hard-hit by the micro-blogging service's many hours of downtime in the past day, as hackers pummel Twitter with an ongoing denial-of-service attack.