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Twitter hasposteda couple of very cool visualizations that show off the ‘global pulse’ of Tweets being sent around the world, especially when major events, like the earthquake in Japan, happen. “We see this behavior during everything from sporting events like the World Cup to widely-televised news events like the royal wedding, and also in the face of major disasters like the March 11 earthquake in Japan,” states Twitter, “Where the volume of Tweets sent per second spiked to more than 5,000 TPS five separate times after the quake and ensuing tsunami....

Twitter and a number of its usershave been suedby a person referred only to “CTB” in London, filing a lawsuit with the High Court after so-called “super injunctions”, which prevented the media reporting names and acts of celebrities and athletes, were revealed on the microblogging service. The court document didn’t provide any details but the initials CTB were used by the court in a separate case to refer to an athlete who won an anonymity order which banned the publishing of stories about an affair with a television star....

Updated at the foot of the post. If you’re using UberTwitter ortwidroyd, you might be in for a sad surprise.Twitter, in an announcement from the Twitter Support blog, has stated that it has suspended the two apps due topolicy violations. With the popularity of the two apps, that’s sure to come as a big pain for the developers, until the suspension is lifted. There is no word yet on exactly what policies were violated, or if the violations affected users directly....

Since this time last year, Twitter has grown from 48 million to 140 million tweets a day. And the notoriously open platform took a big step today. Twitter’sRyan Sarverjust made an announcement involvingTwitter’s updated API. We’ve published excerpts below but, the take away: no new Twitter clients. This massive base of users, publishers, and businesses is a giant playground for developers to build their own businesses on, and this means the opportunity has grown for everyone....

Today, Twitter showed off how a profile for a business could look on its platform. It noted this change would make it easier for companies, non-profits, publishers, and the like to display specific information about their organization. This could also help Twitter users find official accounts for customer support more easily, but we’ll have to see how this is implemented and used widely first. It’s also not yet clear if your account will need to be verified before it can be converted into a Professional Profile; we’ve written toTwitterto ask, and will update this post when we learn more....