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Rumor: Bing to Get Its Clutches on Twitter's Feed Before Google

BY Kit EatonWed Oct 21, 2009 at 7:22 AM

We've heard suggestions like it before, but apparently Microsoft is now very close to securing a connection to Twitter's digital data stream to get live Tweet search powers into Bing. Google's execs will surely be foaming at the mouth ...READ»

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Twitter's New Wine Gets You Drunk on Social Causes

BY Cliff KuangFri Oct 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Twitter founder Biz Stone is launching a wineREAD»

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Ads Coming to Google Maps

BY Kit EatonFri Sep 25, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Google embraces location-based ads. Twitter promises not to, but is it inevitable?READ»

TWITTERING BRANDS | 2 comments

Twitter Doesn't Sell Advertising, Yet 20% of Tweets Mention Brands

BY Kit EatonTue Sep 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM

Twitter's founder has indicated his lifecasting site won't be getting into the advertising game anytime soon, but a survey has found something to indicate the contrary: 20% of Tweets mention a brand somewhere in their text. The ...READ»

TWITTER ADS | 3 comments

Twitter Won't Do Ads, but Time.Com's Twitter Page Does

BY Kit EatonMon Aug 31, 2009 at 9:23 AM

Twitter's own future won't contain advertising, but that isn't stopping Time.com from selling its own advertising space on Twitter. Is this one future for social networking ads? Time's going all-out to figure out how to make money ...READ»

GEOTAGGING | 2 comments

Now Twitter Knows Where You Are, so What Happens Next?

BY Kit EatonFri Aug 21, 2009 at 7:53 AM

Twitter's about to unveil a new feature that taps into another developing social networking trick: Geolocation. The ability to pinpoint your location will happen automatically within the Tweet's code, and it has some big ...READ»

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Biz Stone Advance Video re: Twitter Hack

BY Lena L. WestThu Aug 13, 2009 at 1:03 AM

“We spent a lot of 2008 catching up with a lot of the popularity of Twitter, the unexpected popularity--getting there technically so that we were stable, and along comes this massive attack. You know, we learned. We worked behind the scenes with folks from Google and other companies to figure out how to stop the attacks and how to better deal with them in the future.”READ»

URL SHORTENERS | 4 comments

Bit.ly to Turn Its Diced-Up URLs Into a Real-Time News Feed

BY Kit EatonFri Jul 31, 2009 at 10:44 AM

The real-time push in online systems has attracted a new fan: Bit.ly. The URL shortening service has unveiled plans to turn its torrent of Twitter shortened URLs into a refined flow of news. Clever. And it'll make money too. Bit.ly ...READ»

140 CHARACTER BUSINESS PLANS | 8 comments

Twitter's Ad-Free Future: Paid Tools and Services Instead

BY Kit EatonTue May 19, 2009 at 7:30 AM

Twitter's management cleared up some of the mystery surrounding how the life-casting social networking site will make money. And it's a novel idea: instead of chasing down advertising revenues, Twitter will sell itself through tools ...READ»

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Could Apple Be Interested in Twitter for Its Halo Effect?

BY Kit EatonTue May 5, 2009 at 5:57 AM

Apple and Twitter sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I... well, you know the rest of that rhyme. There's a fascinating little rumor that recently surfaced on the Internet: Apple is interested in acquiring the hot little social ...READ»

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Twitter Starts to Sing For its Supper, Targets Businesses for Cash

BY Kit EatonThu Mar 26, 2009 at 6:07 AM

"News: Popular social networking novelty Twitter is to try to earn some revenue by aiming at businesses with expanded feature set that costs." That's essentially the news today about Twitter, squeezed into a 140-character ...READ»

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