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The Engineering Behind Twitter’s New Search Experience

  • Engineering
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | By Twitter Search (@twittersearch) [21:57 UTC]

Today, Twitter launched a personalized search experience to help our users find the most relevant Tweets, images, and videos. To build this product, our infrastructure needed to support two major features: relevance-filtering of search results and the identification of relevant images and photos.Read more…

Introducing the Follow Button

  • The Twitter Blog
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | By Brian Ellin (@brianellin) [20:00 UTC]

When you follow interesting accounts on Twitter, it’s easy to stay connected with what’s most meaningful to you. Today we’re excited to launch the Follow Button, a new way to discover and instantly follow Twitter accounts directly from the websites you visit every day.

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All Decked Out

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | By dick costolo (@dickc) [15:30 UTC]

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Official: TweetDeck Has Been Acquired By Twitter

  • TweetDeck
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [12:04 UTC]
I am extremely happy and proud to let you know that TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter. We completed the deal on Tuesday and are now in the process of “joining the flock”. The past three years have been an epic journey, with many highs and low…Read more…

Faster Ruby: Kiji Update

  • Engineering
Thursday, May 19, 2011 | By attila szegedi (@AttilaSzegedi) [20:24 UTC]

In March 2011, we shared Kiji, an improved Ruby runtime. The initial performance gains were relatively modest, but laid the foundation for future improvements. We continued the work and now have some excellent results.Read more…

Mission: Permission

  • The Twitter Blog
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [17:00 UTC]

The Twitter ecosystem contains hundreds of thousands of interesting third-party applications designed to enhance your Twitter experience. Third-party apps let you do things like automatically share your Tweets on other networks, connect to other players on gaming platforms, or instantly tweet whenever you update your blog.

All third-party applications that you allow to access your Twitter account go through a permissions process. Today we’re announcing an update to help you make more informed choices about the way third-party apps integrate with your Twitter account:Read more…

Twitter for Mac update

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [13:00 UTC]

When Twitter for Mac launched at the beginning of the year it received praise for its simplicity, speed and look. It also came packed with features like auto-shortened URLs, Tweets appearing in real-time, and multi-account support.Today, we’re releasing the first major update to Twitter for Mac. Some of the highlights:Read more…

Unleash The Innovation - It's Another TweetDeck Hack Day!

  • TweetDeck
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [11:23 UTC]
Our TweetDeck Hack Days are opportunities for our dedicated band of designers, developers and magic-makers to take a break from their usual tasks and get their teeth into whatever cool, clever and captivating project they can dream up. Whether its…Read more…

A better app for your mobile browser

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [21:00 UTC]

We want you to be able to access Twitter no matter where you are; regardless of what device you use; or, whether you prefer to access Twitter through a mobile application or the browser. Today, we’re starting to roll out a new version of twitter.com for mobile devices. This web app allows us to immediately provide a high-quality and consistent Twitter experience on any device – whether or not an official Twitter application is available.Read more…

Giving Back A Little TweetDeck Magic

  • TweetDeck
Friday, May 6, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [14:41 UTC]
During the course of developing our client apps and backend architecture, we have put a lot of hard work into developing many services internally to solve specific problems or improve performance where existing solutions have not been sufficient f…Read more…
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