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#OnlyOnTwitter: Sports stars always shine

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, June 29, 2012 | By Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew) [21:56 UTC]

Twitter brings you closer to your favorite athletes, past and present. Even though an athlete has retired the admiration and connection with and from fans doesn’t diminish with the passing of time. Stars want to stay close and fans want a way to keep up with their favorite athletes of years passed, and if we’re lucky, gain insight into moments from their career.

For this week’s #OnlyOnTwitter, we bring you three legends of sports.Read more…

Twitter celebrates users and brands around the world at #CannesLions

  • Advertising
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | By Dianne Molina (@diabolina), Editorial, Sales Marketing [17:48 UTC]

At Twitter, our goal is to reach every person on the planet. We’re also working to serve the needs of advertisers around the world.Read more…

Working with Girls Who Code

  • The Twitter Blog
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | By Sara Haider (@pandemona) [13:00 UTC]

If we want there to be more women who pursue careers in engineering and computer science and feel welcome in these fields, we have to work on ways to increase the number of women studying engineering — it’s that simple. This is one reason we have an active Women in Engineering group (@womeng) at Twitter, made up of women and men, both engineers and non-engineers, who are passionate about encouraging young women to opt for and stay in computer science.Read more…

Building and profiling high performance systems with Iago

  • Engineering
Monday, June 25, 2012 | By Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) [18:17 UTC]

Iago is a load generator that we created to help us test services before they encounter production traffic. While there are many load generators available in the open source and commercial software worlds, Iago provides us with capabilities that are uniquely suited for Twitter’s environment and the precise degree to which we need to test our services.

There are three main properties that make Iago a good fit for Twitter:

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Euro 2012: Follow all the action on the pitch and in the stands

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, June 22, 2012 | By Omid Ashtari (@omid) [16:39 UTC]

During sporting events, Twitter mirrors the roar of the crowd. This is especially true during big events like the European Football Championship, which has ignited a global conversation around soccer. Below is a visualization of support for #France (in blue) and #England (in red) during their #Euro2012 match on June 11.Read more…

#OnlyOnTwitter: Katy Perry offers chance at early screener tix

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, June 22, 2012 | By Karen Wickre (@kvox) [01:14 UTC]

Do you ever unwrap a candy bar and secretly hope for a Willy Wonka style golden ticket? Twitter can be a little like that: you never know when someone you admire is going to surprise you by intersecting with your world.

In fact, this happened today when pop princess @KatyPerry surprised her millions of followers with their own golden ticket — a chance to snag tickets to see her new movie, Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D, before its official release:Read more…

Today’s turbulence explained

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, June 21, 2012 | By Twitter (@twitter) [23:26 UTC]

Not how we wanted today to go. At approximately 9:00am PDT, we discovered that Twitter was inaccessible for all web users, and mobile clients were not showing new Tweets. We immediately began to investigate the issue and found that there was a cascading bug in one of our infrastructure components. This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today.Read more…

A new way to experience profiles: with or without replies

  • The Twitter Blog
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | By Twitter (@twitter) [21:23 UTC]

When you visit a Twitter user’s profile, you may want to see his or her original Tweets rather than their conversations. Then again, you may enjoy seeing the back-and-forth exchanges they have with other Twitter users. Now you can have it both ways.Read more…

Twitter brings you closer to the #CannesLions Festival

  • Advertising
Monday, June 18, 2012 | By Twitter Advertising (@TwitterAds) [14:33 UTC]

The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, arguably one of the advertising industry’s most important events of the year, is underway in the south of France. While festival attendance is at its highest of all time —up from 9,000 registered delegates in 2011 to almost 11,000 this year— the global conversation on Twitter has grown significantly too.Read more…

#OnlyOnTwitter: Your invitation to exclusive conversations

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, June 15, 2012 | By Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew) [22:40 UTC]

Twitter lets you peek in on the conversations you might not otherwise be privy to. Athletes watching a top sporting event, stars celebrating their own at an awards show, or an entirely unexpected interaction between well-moneyed men.

This week we wanted to share with you a few of the real-time conversations that some well-known folks have had about major events in their worlds. Not just a delightfully unexpected interaction between a rapper and a businessman, but also basketball stars, country musicians and baseball players.Read more…

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