• Movember!

    Wednesday, November 25, 2009

    check out our Twustache Team!
  • Nouvelle saveur : Twitter en Français!

    Thursday, November 19, 2009

    lopera pour vos sorties gastronomiques, que vous lisiez @loic. Les spécialistes de notre plate-forme, Ryan Sarver (@noradio) y présenteront, entre autres choses, une session développeurs. Si vous êtes dans la région ces jours-là, n'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre!
  • Think Globally, Tweet Locally

    Birdfeed, Twidroid, Settings page and click "Enable Geotagging".
  • Refreshed Privacy Policy

    As part of rolling out geotagging today we've updated our [email protected] if you have comments or suggestions.
  • What's Happening?

    Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, "What are you doing?" However, when we implemented the service, we chose to leave something out. To stay simple, Twitter did not require individuals to confirm relationships. Instead, we left things open.

    People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature of the network to share anything they wanted, completely ignoring the original question, seemingly on a quest to both ask and answer a different, more immediate question, "What's happening?" A simple text input field limited to 140 characters of text was all it took for creativity and ingenuity to thrive.

    Sure, someone in San Francisco may be answering "What are you doing?" with "Enjoying an excellent cup of coffee," at this very moment. However, a birds-eye view of Twitter reveals that it's not exclusively about these personal musings. Between those cups of coffee, people are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more.

    The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore—starting today, we've shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, "What's happening?"

    We don't expect this to change how anyone uses Twitter, but maybe it'll make it easier to explain to your dad.
  • Another First in the UK

    Monday, November 16, 2009

    Snapshot. The best part is that it is incredibly simple to use:
    1. Take a photo on your Orange mobile phone
    2. Select 'Send via MMS' or 'Send multimedia message'
    3. Send it to 86444

    Twitter does not charge for this service. It's just like sending and receiving messages with your friends — your carrier's standard messaging rates apply. Give it a try by sending a text message to 86444 with the word "START." This means that with the same shortcode, 86444, UK users can tweet via SMS with Vodafone, O2, and now Orange.
  • The Perfect Combination

    Tuesday, November 10, 2009

    LinkedIn launched a smart integration that lets you sync up your account with Twitter to allow for an easy flow of information to take place between your networks.

    You’ll be able to set your professional status and display more fresh content on your LinkedIn profile via Twitter. And, showing your stream in places off of Twitter.com will connect you to even more people. Shared interest in tips, news, leaders and perspectives can thrust conversations into virtual brainstorms and even business opportunities.

    The peanut butter and the chocolate have come together to make the perfect combination. Enjoy!

  • SMS for AXIS Indonesia

    Monday, November 09, 2009

    As director of mobile products and partnerships at Twitter, one thing that always makes me smile is the growing demand for sending and receiving tweets via SMS. The ease of composing a text message combined with the "interruptiveness" of getting an alert for an account you follow is a powerful combination. This has always been the aspect of Twitter that excites me most. It's cool to think that a café in Jakarta can write their Twitter username on a chalkboard and tell people to text "follow username" to our shortcode for alerts about the daily special.

    Today we are are announcing a partnership with AXIS (here.

    If your country isn't supported with Twitter SMS, we're working with lots of folks around the globe and it's possible that your network will be up and running soon.
  • Retweet Limited Rollout

    Thursday, November 05, 2009

    We've just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.

    You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps. Now we're ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we'll know right away. If things look good, we'll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%.
  • Get to the Point: Twitter Trends

    As Twitter grows and the number of tweets each day continues to astound us, we’ve noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics. Trends began as a useful way to find out what’s going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation.

    So, today we're starting to experiment with improvements to trends that will help you find more relevant tweets. Specifically, we're working to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful. The improvement won't be very noticeable at first, but this is a small step toward unearthing more value in search and getting you more relevant results.
  • ¿Qué estás haciendo?

    Tuesday, November 03, 2009

    @PepeAguilar), Manu Ginobili (@FONSECA) y La Moncloa en España (@desdelamoncloa) habían descubierto el valor de Twitter incluso antes de que lanzáramos esta versión traducida. Esperamos que ofrecer Twitter en español signifique más gente capaz de acceder y disfrutar de este servicio.

    ¡Bienvenidos!