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Twitter is stepping back into the e-commerce business. The company is testing an online shopping feature that businesses can use to sell their products through an in-app browser. Up front:Twitter’s “Shop Module” lets companies showcase their products at the top of their profiles. Visitors who have the Shop Module enabled can then tap on items they’re interested in. This will open an in-app browser, where the customer can make a purchase without leaving Twitter....

In a jobpostingon its site today Twitter has announced its need for a full-time software engineer to work on its anti-spam systems. The posting is asking for applicants with experience in building large scale server applications and who can help Twitter to use ‘intelligent reputation systems and rate limiting’ to prevent abuse. Twitter is looking for great engineers to build large scale systems for quickly identifying abusive content. You should be excited about thwarting the ever-evolving tactics of attackers and helping to make Twitter a great experience for our users....

After facingpolice raids, minister snarks, andweeks of drama, Twitter has finally complied with the new IT laws in India. The government of India todayconfirmed to the Delhi High Courtthat the social network has now fulfilled all requirements of the country’s content policing rules. The new rules mandated that significant social media intermediaries — platforms with more than 5 million users — need to havehad to appoint a nodal officer, a compliance officer, and agrievance officer residing in India....

Twitter needs an anchor – or perhaps hundreds, thousands or millions of them. I thought a lot about that post during todays events, and I now feel that while the point that Twitter is the place to go for breaking news is beyond question, I think that saying that Twitteristhe new Cronkite is going a bit too far – I think that Twitter actually needs it’s own Cronkite, either standing alone or preferably with the aid of crowdsourced volunteers....

If you’re one to check your analytics on a daily basis you may have noticed a pretty sharp increase in referrals from Twitter’s “t.co” domains. We noticed it almost immediately on Wednesday but naively didn’t pay much attention. A few days later and with the t.co domain suddenly our number no 1 domain source of referral traffic, it was time to pay some attention to exactly what had happened. What Happened In the simplest of terms,from last Wednesday,all links (longer than 20 characters) posted on Twitter....