RSS twitterTwitter: Four per cent 'news', 40 per cent 'pointless babble'
News Just over 40 per cent of posts on Twitter - or tweets - can be classified as "pointless babble", according to a new study from Pear Analytics. Pear Analytics published its investigation, which was conducted through a... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter turns to search to turn a profit?
News Twitter is working to convert its popularity into a business and Google has shown that search can make money. So it's notable that Twitter is giving its search function new prominence. Rather than... [23 Feb 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and more outright downtime. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly,"... [06 Aug 2009]
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
News Twitter's servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. Twitter posted an update to its... [12 Aug 2009]
Twitter's on-page search goes live
News Twitter's post-purchase integration of Summize is now complete. On Thursday the company added the on-page search tool to every user's Twitter homepage after having switched it on for selected users... [01 May 2009]
Back @ you, Twitter: Facebook adopts 'at links' tagging
News The move is clearly inspired by the popularity of Twitter's "@-replies". This is yet another sign that Facebook is gradually encroaching upon Twitter's territory in its attempt to own the web's trove of... [11 Sep 2009]
Twitter: We won't charge companies to tweet
News Companies using Twitter to interact with their customers won't have to face a charge for the service after all. In recent interview, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone seemed to suggest commercial tweeters... [11 Feb 2009]
Twitter puts real-time tweets in Google search
News Google has announced it will integrate real-time Twitter posts into search results. For more on Google's intergration of Twitter see Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too on CNET... [22 Oct 2009]
Twitter? Not for me, thanks
News In the latest silicon.com poll, readers were asked how they use Twitter: over 75 per cent of those who responded said "not at all". For those who do use Twitter, however, the motivations are mostly... [26 May 2009]
Twitter unveils official retweet API
News The development team at Twitter has released a mockup of its forthcoming "retweet API" - basically, the first formal way that Twitter has baked retweets, the copying and attribution of other... [21 Sep 2009]
Twitter to charge businesses to tweet
News Twitter has confirmed it will be introducing paid-for business accounts. In an interview with VentureBeat on Thursday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone elaborated on the company's goal to put out a revenue... [25 Aug 2009]
Twitter not for sale says Biz Stone
News The popular microblogging and social networking service Twitter is not for sale, one of the company's founders said on TV on Wednesday. When host Barbara Walters - mentioning rumours that Google, Microsoft and Apple... [08 May 2009]
Twitter's malware filter has 'disappointing results', say security experts
News Twitter's new malware filter is a sign the social media site is stepping up efforts to stem attacks but the measure has its shortcomings, say security experts. Twitter's filtering mechanism was... [04 Aug 2009]
Twitter: The CIO's new best friend - or chocolate teapot?
News Twitter may have doubled its user numbers last month but CIOs are split over whether or not the microblogging service makes a useful business tool. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, seven out of the 12 members said... [22 Apr 2009]
Twitter's fake tweeters to be unmasked
News Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has revealed the company is to start experimenting this summer with a beta preview of a feature, rumoured for some time, called "Verified Accounts". Twitter's Terms of... [08 Jun 2009]
