Twittering Away...June 21st, 2007 I just got hooked into twitter, a service which exists for the sole purpose of letting others know what you are doing at this moment. However it is more than that.
Twitter is Blindingly Slow...June 22nd, 2007 While Twitter is an useful service and pretty enjoyable too, it has become blindingly slow to the point of being unusable, the price of popularity I presume. Now you can look in my twitter profile to find out everything, which I decide to write about, I am doing.
How many Twitter users are there?October 4th, 2009 I was playing around with the twitter API and I found a way to find the exact number of Twitter users. Note: The number of twitter users is continuously increasing by dozens every second, however it will still be accurate at the time of this writing for the higher order digits.
Twitter Overloaded... Again and AgainJune 26th, 2008 Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails.
The Secret To TwitterMarch 29th, 2008 Robert Scoble recently commented that the secret to twitter is to follow more people, that way you get to learn more. I agree that is it important.
Daily Twitter DigestSeptember 4th, 2007 You can get my daily twitter digest here. Here is the RSS feed of the daily digest.
Twitter Announces New API for Integrated Retweet August 14th, 2009 Twitter co founder Biz Stone recently announced on the Twitter blog that they are all set to integrate retweets into the service and application programing interface. Currently the method of retweeting on twitter.com is a cumbersome process of copying and pasting.
Twitter Denies Facebook on A $500 Million Takeover!November 25th, 2008 Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons:
And they can be,
At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a far cry from the billion-dollar dream)
Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year.
Pair of pawty anipals and owners use Twitter to make money for charities around the worldSeptember 30th, 2009 Animal friends have 'pawpawties' for charityLOS ANGELES — Dougal and Romeo live in different countries and have never met in person. One's a dog, one's a cat.
Tweet this! Tweeting too frequently can cause you health problemsApril 28th, 2009 With any exciting updates comes a note of precaution. Take Twitter for an example.
How to Manage Twitter Followers by email? TopifyJune 30th, 2009 Managing new Twitter notifications and direct messages is a hassle that aggravates with Twitter's interface. To match this you would need a tool that could revamp the new follow notifications and adding support for following back and relying to direct messages via email.
Google to Acquire Twitter: SourcesApril 3rd, 2009 Washingtonpost today has just brought in a heck of a rumor that Google may be in the last stage of acquiring Twitter. No one knows the price or exact transactional details yet, nor there is any official source to that, but its said that the deal may be well over $250 Million.
How to Add Twitter to OrkutJanuary 21st, 2009 Twitter and Orkut have attracted millions of people in the world into social networking. To each, its own.
Twitter is Vulnerable to worms : Computer Security ExpertsMay 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Social networking site Twitter suffers security breaches, an expert has warned. According to Graham Cluley of antivirus firm Sophos, the microblogging site is prone to viruses created in the Javascript web-programming language.
UK's oldest Twitter user is a 103yr old womanMay 15th, 2009 LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.