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Bell Mobility and Twitter—No Extra Fees

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, February 26, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [18:12 UTC]

Last week we activated full SMS service for Canadian Twitter-ers who are also customers of Bell Mobility. Twitter and Bell have agreed that Bell customers on the company’s text messaging bundles will be able to receive unlimited incoming Twitter SMS messages at no extra charge. If you haven’t already, you can activate your phone to Twitter over SMS.Read more…

TweetDeck v0.22 12seconds Recording

  • TweetDeck
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [16:55 UTC]
TweetDeck v0.22 has only one new feature but hopefully you’ll find it a useful one. You can now record 12seconds video right within TweetDeck, so no more having to open your browser. This feature makes it much more convenient to use the 12seconds …Read more…

For Whom The Bell Texts

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, February 20, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [19:10 UTC]

Today we’re super excited to be activating full, two-way SMS service for Canadian Twitter-ers who are also customers of Bell Mobility. If you’re a Bell Mobility customer, you can update Twitter via SMS and receive updates from Twitter via SMS. There are no limits and no added fees (beyond your normal texting plan). If you haven’t already, you can activate your phone to Twitter over SMS.Read more…

Testing A More Integrated Search Experience

  • The Twitter Blog
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [22:05 UTC]

Search and Trends in Twitter for a fraction of folks.

Twitter Search has been growing ever more popular despite the fact that it lives on a subdomain of our site. Today, we’ve placed Search and Trends into the signed-in home pages of a limited set of accounts to get a better sense of how it works for folks before we release the feature completely into the wild. Most people will not see this test, just a small, random subset.Read more…

TweetDeck v0.21.6 Autocomplete

  • TweetDeck
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [14:24 UTC]
Here is a small but useful update to TweetDeck - username autocomplete. The autocomplete window is triggered by either typing “d ” at the beginning of a tweet typing “@” anywhere in a tweet You can use the autocomplete functionality using just the…Read more…

Opportunity Knocks

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, February 13, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [18:40 UTC]

Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate. Active users have increased 900% in a year and even though our web traffic is amazing, we see twice that traffic to the APIs. Interacting with Twitter over SMS is also getting more popular every day. Our relatively small team of 29 employees has accomplished quite a bit lately but it’s obvious that we have the world ahead of us.

An Offer We Couldn’t RefuseRead more…

Clickjacking Blocked

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [19:05 UTC]

Some folks have noticed links from accounts they follow prefaced by the words, “Don’t click” which of course people want to click right away. The links take you to a web site employing technique called clickjacking. This technique seeks to trick web users and can take action on your behalf while you perform seemingly unrelated tasks.Read more…

TweetDeck v0.21.5

  • TweetDeck
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [10:01 UTC]
Since this is a point release, rather than a full new version, it contains mainly minor functionality updates and bug fixes but there are one or two interesting new features: you can now twitter to a global audience with the ability to translate t…Read more…

Give Water, Join Us Tomorrow!

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, February 12, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [01:34 UTC]

Don’t forget that Twestival is tomorrow. Almost 200 cities around the world will simultaneously host Tweetups and raise money for Charity:Water, a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.Read more…

Nothing To Report Just Yet

  • The Twitter Blog
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [23:36 UTC]

There was a sudden burst of news early this week surrounding some ideas we’ve shared publicly for quite some time. We’ve been thinking out loud for more than a year about the growing use of Twitter by companies, brands, and other commercial organizations. It’s great that both individuals and organizations are finding value in Twitter and there may be ways we can enrich the experience. In fact, we hope to begin iterating on revenue products this year.Read more…

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