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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is holding an informal business meeting at Twitter today. TNW is there and Costolo is sharing some interesting statistics. The chief among those is that Twitter currently has100 million users a month, half of which log on every day and 55% of which log onto Twitter on a mobile device. Twitter is currently seeing 5 billion Tweets every 5 days. Since January of 2011, this number is up 82% and their active users are growing faster this year than last....

Over the last few days there have been two names thrown around my Twitter feed, those of BBC Radio 1 DJZane Loweand Independent journalist Johann Hari. Lowe allegedly caused somewhat of a Twitter uproar when presenting the BBC’s coverage of theGlastonbury festivalwith fellow DJ Lauren Laverne. It all started after Beyonce performed her headlining act on the festival’s Pyramid Stage. Back at the BBC base Laverne gushed about the singer before asking Lowe what he thought....

One of the popular Twitter clients,Twitterrific for iOSgot a shiny new update today. There are quite a few bug fixes and improvements, but version 4.1 comes with some interesting new features too. The app has got an Advanced Settings page from where you can choose not to see mentions from strangers ie. people whom you don’t follow. You can also toggle Quick View to open links in Safari instead of their in-app browser....

It’s been a long time coming but finally Twitterrific for the Mac, oddly names Twitterriffic for Twitter, is nowavailable in the app storeor onlinehere. I was considering spending some time on an in depth review but frankly speaking, there’s little to see here.MacStorieshas a solid look atIcon Factory’srelease and it’s largely positive but my first impressions? Not good. Firstly, if you’re an existing Twitterrific user, expect the many options in settings to have been removed....

Twitter went through a major overhaul in 2021. It wasn’t as dramatic as Facebook changing its name to Meta, but there’s a long list of things it did:swapping out its CEO, introducing newcommunicationfeatures, and trying to bedev-friendlyagain. Apart from this, the company acquired at least seven startups this year — the most in the last five years. These firms can be key to how Twitter will shape up as a social network in the next year....