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Ryan Sarver, a member of Twitter’s platform/api team, took a few minutes today to address concerns about the Twitter ecosystem and in particular itsannouncement on Fridaythat developers shouldn’t develop new twitter clients. The gist of what Sarver said is this; Twitter won’t be asking anyone to shut down just as long as they stick within the required api limits. New apps can be built but it doesn’t recommend doing so as it’s ‘not good long term business’....

We’ve wanted this for ages, andour request(no, seriously, Zee asked for this yesterday) has been answered. According to theTwitter blog, the site has finally added a Follow button: For publishers and brands, adding the Follow Button to your website and using Twitter to stay connected with your audience is a powerful combination. People who follow your account are much more likely to retweet and engage with your Tweets, and to repeatedly visit your website....

Remember that time when you wanted to share a tweet with two people and accidentally created a group? Yep. To share a tweet with two people, you had to share with one of them first, and repeat the process again. It was annoying. Thankfully, the social network is fixing it with a new DM feature. The firm said last night that it’s rolling out a new feature to its iOS and Android app that lets you send a tweet to up to 20 conversations separately....

Twitterhas been seen, by the savvy media, as a great source for relaying and finding information. But now, Twitter itself has given us even better guidance for using the service and its features in order to help more stories reach more people. With a new site calledTwitter for Newsrooms, you’ll find a wealth of information from ways to verify sources to the “accepted” standards for embedding Tweets into your stories....

Sometimes we get lucky. The@TwitterGlobalPRaccount (if you’re not following it, you should be) sent out a message asking if anyone was interested in getting the newest version of Twitter for Android before it is released. You know us, we’re always up for pre-release applications so we had to take a look. The first thing that you’ll notice is that it has a really sleek look to the app overall. The new design takes a minimalist look, though the function doesn’t change in any mentionable way....