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The geography of Tweets

Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets.

Those of us on the Visual Insights team are obsessed with the patterns that emerge from aggregated Tweets over time. A continuing curiosity is about the geographical shapes that surface in geotagged Tweets. The images we’re sharing here use all of the geo-tagged Tweets since 2009 — billions of them. (Every dot is a Tweet, and the color is the Tweet count.)Read more…

Mobile app development: Catching crashers

Before Twitter for iOS code reaches production, we run it through static analysis, automated testing, code review, manual verification, and employee dogfooding. In this last step, we distribute beta builds to our employees to collect real-world feedback on products and monitor code stability through crash reports.

Detailed crash data has had a huge impact to our development process, and significantly improved mobile app performance and quality. This post describes two types of bugs, and how we used detailed data from Crashlytics to diagnose and fix them.Read more…

New iPhone and Android features for better tweeting

We’ve just released updates to our iPhone and Android apps. Tweeting is now even easier and more seamless.Read more…

Extend TV commercials on Twitter: Premiering TV ad targeting

Twitter Amplify partnerships: Great content, great brands, great engagement

Less than six months in, 2013 has already been a remarkable year for the nexus between television and Twitter. Ninety-five percent of live TV conversation currently happens on Twitter, according to Bluefin. Half of all national Super Bowl commercials had hashtags on them, helping guide viewers to the collective conversation. And you can’t turn on the news without hearing a Tweet referenced.Read more…

Getting started with login verification

Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.Read more…

Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card

Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases.

With those goals in mind, today there’s a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards, one which helps brands drive highly qualified leads: the Lead Generation Card.Read more…

Brewing our first IPA patent, and new adopters

Last year, we introduced a new way of handling patents called the Innovator’s Patent Agreement. The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. We put the draft agreement up on Github and over the past year, we’ve received a lot of great comments and feedback.Read more…

New study: Tweets influence prospective auto buyers’ site visitation, brand consideration, and offline actions

Twitter users actively engage in auto conversations at all stages of the car buying journey – starting long before they’re officially in-market and continuing well after purchase. They talk about their dream cars, express purchase intent, learn about new models and features, field recommendations, directly interact with brands and often share unsolicited reviews.Read more…

#BBMA: Your ticket to Vegas

The Billboard Music Awards are two days away (Sunday May 19, 8pm ET / 7pm CT) and you can use Twitter to keep up with all of the night’s unforgettable moments. 

How will you follow along with the backstage action? How will you talk directly to your favorite artists, or experience the scene in Las Vegas at this year’s show?Read more…

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