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Join Twitter, Win the World Series

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, February 18, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [17:40 UTC]

It’s been a few months since many of us here at Twitter HQ went wild on the streets in celebration of the San Francisco Giants World Series victory. During the season, the Giants also won at using Twitter. They answered fans’ questions live during the game, promoted exclusive giveaways, shared pics from the dugout, and spread news and stats about players and games. The video above provides a great perspective on how they did this and the impact it had.Read more…

TweetDeck HackDay: Concepts and Prototypes

  • TweetDeck
Thursday, February 17, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [12:26 UTC]
Yesterday was our internal TweetDeck Hackday where we “downed tools” on the day-to-day awesome and everyone was given free reign to prototype, build or design something (anything) they wanted to see in TweetDeck - however offbeat. Our previous Hac…Read more…

Translating Twitter into more languages

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, February 14, 2011 | By Jinen Kamdar (@jinen) [17:15 UTC]

Today we’re announcing a product that is a major step toward making Twitter more easily accessible by people around the world - the Twitter Translation Center. The Translation Center allows us to crowdsource translations from our passionate users in order to more quickly launch Twitter in additional languages.

Translators will be translating the product itself, not the Tweets. If you go to the settings page on Twitter.com and change your language, you’ll see what we mean.Read more…

The Polar Express - A Deck.ly update

  • TweetDeck
Monday, February 14, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [13:00 UTC]
Our “long post” feature, Deck.ly, has been available for a little over 2 weeks and I’m pleased to announce we’ve had over 1.35 million Deck.ly’s created in that time. The rationale for creating the Deck.ly service was primarily to fulfil our most …Read more…

Twitter for Android - new and improved

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, February 10, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [20:50 UTC]

Twitter for Android is one of the fastest growing Twitter applications. Six months ago, it wasn’t among the top 10 most-used Twitter applications. However, in the last two months, usage has doubled, and now it’s among the top five – along with twitter.com, m.twitter.com (our mobile web site), Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Blackberry.Read more…

#superbowl

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [20:31 UTC]

A record 162.9 million people watched this year’s Super Bowl, making it the most-watched television event ever.Read more…

But Wait, There's More!

  • TweetDeck
Friday, February 4, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [00:00 UTC]
So we just launched our awesome new Deck.ly service, allowing you to send messages of unlimited length to Twitter, should you so desire. You’d think that was enough awesomeness for now wouldn’t you? Well think again, TweetDeck fans! Not only did w…Read more…