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.
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.
Is Twitter Enabling Stalking?July 16th, 2007 Stalking appears to be the most appropriate way to describe my recent experiences. First of all Twitter (I love the service) has changed the message from so and so is your friend to the eerie message so and so is following you.
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.
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.
Daily Twitter DigestSeptember 4th, 2007 You can get my daily twitter digest here. Here is the RSS feed of the daily digest.
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.
Twitting Twitter... AgainJuly 2nd, 2007 Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages.
Which City is the Most Twitter Addict?February 16th, 2009 Twitter needs no introduction anymore. The sheer popularity speaks for it if not anything else.
Facebook Turns to Real Time Web InteractivityMarch 5th, 2009 After it's failed attempts to acquire Twitter, Facebook has come up with new strategies. It has incurred a number of changes to the homepage/newsfeed.
Twitter Global Visitors Cross Digg, LinkedIn, NYTimesMay 21st, 2009 Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost. Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone.
iPhone App to Keep Your Passwords and Sensitive Data Secure - KeeperJanuary 29th, 2009 I know that iPhone is nout just a phone for many of you. Its a storage place for sensitive information as well as passwords for your accounts.
March 30th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
hi there,
is there a way to know whose twitters you follow ? something like a RSS share (aka google reader ?)
thank you,
BR,
~A
March 30th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
You can go to a twitter page and see the people I follow. For example if you go to my twitter page, you will see all the people I am following (as icons).
May 15th, 2009 at 2:16 am
We love Twitter and can live with the short downtimes…period. If someone comes up with a better tool, then we’ll all check it out, until then, thanks Twitter!
The Songnumbers.com Team