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Twitter, perhaps feeling a little pressure from Google’s new social network Google+, has started to experiment with placement options for its “Find Your Friends On Twitter” feature, encouraging users to import their friend lists from a range of other social networks and services to see if they are using the service. Twitter has long offered a way to check to see if their email and social networking contacts are using the service but the import tool itself has been tucked away within the “Who To Follow” section of its website....

Seems rather bizarre that Twitter doesn’t own the trademark to the word “tweet” doesn’t it? Well in fact, it doesn’t. The word is a registered trademark of a company calledTwittad. Twittad says it’s “the largest and most effective form of sponsored advertising on Twitter.” And, smartly, in 2008 the company trademark the word “tweet” after using the slogan “Let Your Ad Meet Tweets” for its company. The company managed to obtain the registration quite simply because nobody opposed it....

Spam is a huge problem on Twitter. Some days you can’t mention the word “iPad” or use a hashtag without getting flooded with unhelpful and obviously fake spam Tweets from robot-driven accounts. Many of those accounts are obviously spammers as well, with 0 followers to their names. Well, rest assured that Twitter understands spam is a problem and is working on it. Twitter CEO Dick CostoloTweetedthis response to acomplaintby Peter Kafka about spam on Twitter:...

Twitteris planning to launch a site for developers using the Twitter platform in their applications,GigaOm reports. After several very rocky months between Twitter and developers, the move may be an attempt to smooth things over by giving developers more information, assistance and support. Twitter isn’t holding back: the site will have tips and tutorials, a blog on Twitter as a platform for developers, and a forum that provides a direct link between third-party developers and Twitter developers....

With Twitter’s UK presence growing steadily by the day, the company will open a new operational office in Ireland, after Irish investment promotion agency IDA confirmed its decision to locate to Dublin in a tweet early on Monday morning. The tweet“Ireland is trending. Twitter to establish international office in Dublin.#idairl” all but confirms the expansion, although Twitter has yet to issue a statement on its apparent decision to set up operations on the Emerald Isle....