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Twitter is introducing a new way to cash in on your brilliant tweets. The microblogging site has started rolling out a Tip Jar feature that allows users to send money to their favorite accounts. “This is a first step in our work to create new ways for people to receive and show support on Twitter — with money,” said Esther Crawford, ‎senior product manager at Twitter, ina blog post. People on Twitter are already doing this—adding their PayPal and $Cashtag to their bio or as a reply to a Tweet that takes off....

Twitter, now a company with hundreds of employees, is large enough to support the occasional side project beyond keeping their servers online and the fail whale at bay. If you are a Twitter user, please say hello to#BetterNow, a new Twitter endeavor designed to promote communities and their health. The call to action on the website reads: “Be a part of something bigger than yourself and make a difference in someone else’s life....

In the same way that thousands of Kim Kardashian’s loyal followers will flock to a shoe sale if the starlet simply tweets it, Twitter hopes to approach advertising on the platform in a similar manner. A recent interview with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo onNYMagrevealed insight into how Twitter might monetize its service. Costolo used popular actor, James Franco, in his example. Twitter wants celebrities like Franco to sell their audience to advertisers in a way that is “frictionless” — which seems to be a popular buzzword in social media lately, as it reminds me a bit ofZuckerberg’s Open Graph statementfor frictionless discovery experiences through friends on Facebook....

Microblogging behemoth Twitter could be on the verge of opening a new New York office, if aspeculative reportfrom AllThingsD andsuggestive photofrom Twitter employee Elizabeth Weil are to be believed. In September 2010,AllThingsD reportedthe company was to open an office but it later transpired to be a working space for Twitter employees to work. However, Weil’s posting of aphoto showing a chalkboardwith the words “Welcome to #TwitterNYC” and a number ofDIY-related tweetssuggests it must just be happening this time....

It’s taken 5 years, but Twitter has finallyfiled a domain disputewith the World Intellectual Property Organization over twiter.com, a site which currently redirects to surveys and ads. The site’s colours and design are deceivingly similar to Twitter, so if you’re not careful, you might be misled into thinking that Twitter’s in the business of handing out free gifts in exchange for a survey. It’s interesting to note a drastic change in the site’straffictowards the end of 2010, once the site started redirecting to other domains....