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We don’t know if Twitter has its own version of Google’s “20 percent time” allowing its staff to work on additional projects but a new Netflix/Twitter mashup created by Robin Sloan, who works on Twitter’s media partnerships team, might well qualify if they did. Sloan, an avid Netflix user, knew that the service would add and retire movies from its Watch Instantly service every day, so he set about creating a service calledQueueNoodlethat would utilise Netflix’s publicly available API to warn Twitter users of which movies were about to expire ahead of time....

The social network is now letting you sign in or sign up through your Google and Apple ID. You can use your Google ID on the app or on the web. However, your Apple ID will only work on iOS devices for now; support for the web will be added alter Sign on with ease and start scrolling your timeline. Now, when you log in or sign up to join the conversation on Twitter, you have the option to use:▪️ Your Google Account on the app and on web▪️ Or your Apple ID on iOS, and soon on webpic....

Twitter engineer shares 5 tips on how to ace coding interviews 1. Come up with a game plan Beforeyou start writing code, you should come up with a plan on how to tackle the problem. You should spend around 5 to 20 minutes on this portion. Typically my game plan involves drawing diagrams and doing test examples. For instance, whenever I get a graph problem or a recursion problem, I like to draw a tree to identify the different states that I will be visiting and the order of states that I will be visiting....

Seeing the Fail Whale regularly might be a thing of the past but Twitter isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to its infrastructure, with the company reportedly expanding its data center network east after choosing a new center in Atlanta to improve delivery speed for its users across the U.S but also across the world. According to reports, Twitter has chosen QTS (Quality Technology Services) to provide its server infrastructure, hosting racks in its 990,000 square foot Metro Technology Center downtown Atlanta – one of the world’s largest data centers....

AsTwitterexpands its reach, one of the largest problems with which it has to deal is localization. Starting today, the more than 2 million Twitter users in Korea will have Twitter in their native language. According to ablog post(in Korean), Twitter has seen a growth rate of over 10x in 2010, and more is expected. In view of that, Twitter for Mobile and Twitter.com are now available in Korean. Although Koreans have already access to twitter for quite some time now, bloggerAjennejapointed out that features such as using hashtags and performing search could be quite buggy when using Korean words with more than 3 characters....