posted his sketch of the service he envisioned, “I'm happy this idea has taken root; I hope it thrives.” Thanks to you, it is.

Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter. This team has built an innovative product that makes sharing across the web and mobile devices simple—a goal we share. Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.

Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.

We’re always looking for talented people who have the passion and personality to join Twitter. Acquisitions have given us people and technology that have enabled us to more quickly build a better Twitter for you.

Here’s the Posterous post on today’s news.

With delegates from 10 states up for grabs, Super Tuesday has been a highly anticipated day on the path to the Republican nomination. This chart maps the conversation about each of the candidates over the course of the day. You can see the volume of Tweets increase sharply around the time the first results were reported, and additional lifts as each candidate addressed citizens and voters on TV.

#Romney family misspells its own name in the world's most epic Freudian slip. March 6, 2012See more in our March 7, 2012

If Santo wins Ohio, the one thing he'll really want and need is another debate. The last one wasn't so good for him.

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) earlier blog post with charts that show the road to #SuperTuesday on Twitter in Tweets that mention candidates and candidate follower growth.

Today we’re launching Twitter in four new languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.

We first added these four languages to the
These 13,000 volunteers are a vibrant and diverse group. Among those who donated their time and translation skills to make right-to-left languages a reality on Twitter: a Saudi blogger, Egyptian college students, a journalist at the BBC, IT professionals in Iran and Pakistan, an Israeli schoolteacher, the co-founders of the grassroots #LetsTweetInArabic campaign, academics specializing in linguistics, and teenagers in Lebanon.

Some of these volunteers live in regions where Twitter is officially blocked. Their efforts speak volumes about the lengths people will go to make Twitter accessible and understandable for their communities.

Twitter is now available in 28 different languages around the world. Right-to-left languages posed a unique technical challenge, particularly with Tweets containing both right-to-left and left-to-right content. To solve this, our engineering team built a new set of special tools to ensure these Tweets, hashtags and numbers all look and behave correctly.

We want to thank all the volunteers for helping us making Twitter available to every person on the planet. If you want to help translate, join the community to discuss existing translations or suggest a new language for future translation, visit our Translation Center.

Since the beginning of the 2012 election season, many of you have turned to Twitter for breaking news about the latest GOP primary results,

Update: Here is a chart of GOP candidate follower growth leading up to Super Tuesday.



Follow @gov for more highlights about Super Tuesday and the ongoing election season.