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We’ve been tipped by websiteFusiblethat Twitter has purchased the domain re-tweet.com. This seems to indicate that it may be planning on building a competing service to the websiteTweetmeme, which supplies a button that allows websites to offer instant retweets of a blog post or article.Updated with response from Twitter below. Apparently the domain was purchased from David Quinlan on June 12, 2011 by Twitter. The domain had previously sold at public auction for $15 on March 28th of this year according to domain sales siteFlippa....

If you’re still playing the game of figuring out whether Twitter, Facebook or Google+ will win, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo would like to take your ear for a minute. Costolo is doing a Meet the Press style gathering at Twitter headquarters today and he’s had a lot to say aboutusers, growth,advertisingand now about the differences between Twitter and the rest of the pack. Speaking specifically about Google+, Costolo talks about that little red number for notifications:...

If you weren’t convinced about Twitter’s advertising platform, new statistics from the company’s CEO Dick Costolo might have you looking back into putting some money aside to advertise on the service. Spreaking toWalt Mossberg at AllThingsD’s D9 event, Costolo said that Twitter was a “remarkably successful business” that currently has over 80% of its advertisers choosing to renew their campaigns on the service. Referring again to Twitter ads as “orders of magnitude higher” than traditional web adverts, advertisers including Volvo have seen 50% engagement rates via one advert on the Twitter website....

It started with just some slight changes to the width of the detail panel in New Twitter, but digging deeper we’ve found some other changes as well. Here’s a rundown of the new things that we’ve spotted today. Have you seen them yet? Thinner Details Pane In New Twitter, the right side is now a bit thinner, offering a bit more real estate to the main tweets versus the context information....

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has denied rumours that the company is in talks with JP Morgan Chase & Co, dismissing reports that suggested the social networking company would sell the investment firm a 10% share of the company for a reported $450 million. Stone told Reutersthat the reports were “made up”, but did admit to discussions with Facebook “a couple of years ago … (but) nothing formal since and it’s mostly rumors all the time”....