In addition to the ability toview the Twitter streamsof people that you follow, Twitter has added a new button on the Following page that allows you to shuffle through the Twitter streams of your followers. This should make for an interesting way to stumble upon interesting Tweeters that your followers like. When you hover over the button it tells you that you’re able to jump to another one of your followers....
Starting today, Twitter hasannouncedthat developers will have access to a new field in the Twitter API called “possibly_sensitive”. This field will eventually allow developers to build an option into their clients that allows users to flag links or pictures that they post on twitter as NSFW or “Not Safe For Work”. Currently if users post questionable content, they can be reported by other Twitter users. Once reported, Twitter follows a procedure to review the content:...
Fortune publisheda story about Twittertoday that hasattracted attentiondue to the mention of Google offering $10bn to acquire the company late last year. It’s certainly juicy, but there’s nothing to get excited about here. The ‘news’ was widely circulated months ago, and as wereportedback in February, CEO Dick Costolo has dismissed any offer from Google, saying “I don’t know where these things come from. It’s just a rumor.” According to Fortune, Twitter’s board members, including VCs Peter Fenton, Fred Wilson, and Bijan Sabet, former Netscape CFO Peter Currie, former Doubleclick CEO David Rosenblatt, and Flipboard founder Mike McCue, are “alpha males” who disagree on a lot of things, but apparently one thing they agreed on was not to sell the company to Google, Facebook or anyone else....
Bing has extended its deal with Twitter to access the social company’s vast amount of data. The companies announced the deal via a conversation between the @Bingand @Twitteraccounts on Twitter, a somewhat unconventional way to announce a deal whose value is likely measured in the millions. This is the exchange: Google had a similar deal with Twitter previously, but let it expire. It thenshuttered its real-time search product. That Bing is continuing with Twitter is something that may yield the Microsoft search engine a competitive advantage over time....
Twitter has todayannouncedon its blog that there are 1 million registered Twitter apps, built by more than 750,000 developers. This is a huge increase over the only 150,000 apps that were plugged into Twitter a year ago. This is also a marked increase of 100,000 from numbers that werereleased by Twitter in May. Twitter says that a new app is registered every 1.5 seconds. Twitter has also announced a brand newTwitter Developer sitethat developers that integrate Twitter can use to talk to Twitter team members, converse with fellow developers and access resources....
