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There has beenno shortage of articlesclaiming that Google+ will outperform Facebook and Twitter by next year and while I take these articles with a pinch of salt, as there’s a big difference between early uptake in users and long-term value, Twitter is risking being left behind. Twitter has been making a lot of headlines recently with important changes to the site, the team and itswork with advertisers. But is it making the right decisions, or is it a case of too little too late?...

Twitter is nowavailablein five new languages including both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay. These new choices join the 12 other languages that Twitter had already supported. Twitter uses a crowd-sourced translation that uses 290,000 volunteers to translate Twitter.com as well as support pages and Twitter apps. Twitter says that it will be adding more languages to its Translation Center soon including Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish and Hungarian....

Twitter has just announced, via aTweetnaturally, that they have updated the ‘Following’ page that you see when you click on the list of people that are following you.Update:They’ve also added anifty “stumble” button. The new following page will now show you a list of Tweets from the accounts that your follower is themselves following. You can also see a list of the accounts that your follower is following. You can see above that you will be able to click on a person that you’re following and see Tweets from their followers....

We’ve confirmed that Twitter is now rolling out direct image uploading on Twitter.com, as first reported byMike Cane. This feature allows you to upload an image directly for use in a Tweet, in a similar fashion to the way that you can with most third-party Twitter clients. The upload button appears to the left of the location icon, just underneath the ‘new Tweet’ box. when you click on the button, a popup appears that allows you to upload your image....

Twitter has just notified its users via aTweetthat it will begin notifying them that someone they follow has retweeted or favorited one of their tweets. The new notifications will apparently be delivered in the same manner that current notifications about direct messages and new followers are sent.Updated. We’re hoping that they will also add the ability to manage those notifications as some users could quickly be overwhelmed. Twitter recentlychanged the lookof the DM and New Follower emails to reflect the new look of the site and to emphasize connections....