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Sunday’s Showdown: Follow the action on & off the field

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, January 31, 2013 | By Omid Ashtari (@omid) [23:56 UTC]

Are you part of the @ravens’ lively #RavensNation, or are you on joining the ride for the @49ers’ #questforsix? Or maybe you’re more excited about the halftime show and the commercials? Whatever is bringing you to the TV on Sunday, you’ll find unprecedented access, entertainment, and team spirit on Twitter.Read more…

Introducing Flight: a web application framework

  • Engineering
Thursday, January 31, 2013 | By angus croll (@angustweets) [16:50 UTC]

Last year we rolled out a major reimplementation of the Twitter website. In addition to shifting the rendering of our page content to the server (which achieved significant performance gains), we re-envisioned the entire client-side infrastructure with a clean, robust and easy-to-learn framework which we call Flight.Read more…

Action and navigation all from the keyboard

  • TweetDeck
Thursday, January 31, 2013 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [08:19 UTC]
This week’s Web and Chrome update is for lovers of keyboard shortcuts everywhere. We wanted to offer shortcuts for all the different actions you can do on a Tweet and we wanted to provide a way to navigate across and up and down your columns using only the keyboard.Read more…

Updates for viewing photos and videos

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | By David Chen (@chenosaurus) [20:10 UTC]

Today, we’re rolling out several enhancements that make it easier to view photos and videos on Twitter — in particular, on profiles and in search results.

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#OnlyOnTwitter: State Department changes

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | By Bridget Coyne (@bcoyne) [17:03 UTC]

The beginning of a new term in Washington marks changes in many of the government’s highest offices. Yesterday was noteworthy at the US Department of State, as outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held her last Town Hall, and Senator John Kerry was confirmed as the new Secretary. Of course, both occasions played out on Twitter.Read more…

Braindump

  • Engineering
Monday, January 28, 2013 | By Twitter (@twitter) [23:28 UTC]



For various reasons, including performance and cost, Twitter has poured significant engineering effort into breaking down the site backend into smaller JVM based services. As a nice side effect we’ve been able to open source several of the libraries and other useful tools that came out of this effort.Read more…

Twitter Transparency Report v2

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, January 28, 2013 | By Jeremy K. (@jer) [15:35 UTC]

Last July we released our first Twitter Transparency Report (#TTR), publishing six months of data detailing the volume of government requests we receive for user information, government requests to withhold content, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act-related complaints from copyright holders. Read more…

This Week on Twitter - Jan. 28

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, January 28, 2013 | By Alexandra Valasek (@AlzValz) [15:25 UTC]
Monday, Jan. 28 In honor of the 2014 World Cup, which is 500 days away, international soccer superstar Pelé (@Pele) will be hosting a “500 days away” Twitter celebration. Pelé, along with other sports influencers, will be taking questions and tweeting to fans throughout the day.Read more…

Vine: A new way to share video

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | By Michael Sippey (@sippey) [16:10 UTC]

Today, we’re introducing Vine: a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity. Now that you can easily capture motion and sound, we look forward to seeing what you create.Read more…

#OnlyOnTwitter: Inauguration Day

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | By Bridget Coyne (@bcoyne) [00:07 UTC]

Tweets from yesterday’s Presidential Inauguration offer a glimpse into the pageantry that swept D.C. Whether they were dignitaries seated onstage or citizens lining the streets, plenty of people shared pictures that captured the spirit of the day.Read more…

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