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It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps -- it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter…
September 2 2010, 1:59pm | Comments
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Google Chrome Is The New “Down For Everyone Or Just Me”
You hit a site; it’s down. You immediately reload; it’s still down. You start to freak out. “How the hell are they down again!? Is anyone in charge over there?! WTF?!” But quite often, it’s just you. And…
September 1 2010, 10:53am | Comments
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17-Year Old Twitter Spammer Scores Facebook CEO as New Friend
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is following the tweets of James Cunningham, the 17-year-old developer from Scotland who took a place in Twitter's trending topics today with a basic app that auto-tweeted about itself from users' accounts. And Cunningham…
August 18 2010, 2:57pm | Comments
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Google Buzz Gets A “Who To Follow” Feature Too
After your initial surge of people connecting to your social graph what do you do to strengthen it? Launch a “who to follow” feature. It worked for Facebook. It’s working for Twitter. And now Google Buzz is going…
August 18 2010, 11:35am | Comments
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Twitter’s “Followed By” And “You Both Follow” More Useful Than “Mutual Friends”
On Friday Twitter start mass roll out of its “Followed By” and “You Both Follow” features, which we covered in more detail last month (It seems as though Tlists, a feature which allows users to see what Twitter…
August 16 2010, 6:34pm | Comments
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Meet Twitter’s New Real-time Architecture
Twitter rolled out User Streams to its users for the first time this week, through limited beta offerings by third-party applications TweetDeck and Echofon for Mac. This new, streaming API has been long in the making for Twitter,…
July 30 2010, 5:44am | Comments
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Memo to Startups: Speed and Scale Are Not the Same Thing
If there’s one thing that web startups –particularly engineers at web startups — think about a lot, it’s what they call “scale.” What they usually mean by that is the ability to take the beta service tested with…
July 29 2010, 7:15am | Comments
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Twitter Opening Its Own Custom Data Center In Utah Later This Year
As you may have noticed, Twitter has had some reliability issues over the past few months. Part of this was related to the World Cup, part of it is because they just continue to grow at a fast…
July 22 2010, 10:14am | Comments
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First Look: TweetDeck Now Supports Foursquare and Buzz [SCREENSHOTS]
Popular cross-platform social app TweetDeck is announcing an update to its desktop client this morning which will add Foursquare and Google Buzz to its arsenal of supported streams which already includes Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and Facebook. In addition,…
May 20 2010, 10:40pm | Comments
