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Good news for people everywhere!

New, improved, internationalized help centerRead more…

The Twitter Platform

Enduring Value

When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API to the platform’s functionality, and ensuring the long-term health and value of the user experience.

The purpose of this post is to explain what we are building, how we will sustain the company and ecosystem, and where we believe there will be great opportunities for the vast ecosystem of partners.Read more…

A Monster Update For Your Desktop

“Up from the depths, Thirty stories high, Breathing fire, His head in the sky. Godzilla!” - Godzilla, The Animated Series Its all go here at TweetDeck HQ. We’re working on new clients, hiring new staff and striking new deals every day. This hard w…Read more…

Twitter for iPhone

Comprehensive analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes App Store showed very plainly that people were looking for an app from Twitter—we didn’t have one so they generally got confused and gave up. Obviously, we saw room for improvement. Starting today, Twitter for iPhone and iPod touch is available for free on the iTunes App Store.Read more…

News for Developers

If you’re a Twitter developer, then we invite you to read our engineering blog regularly. Even if you’re on the mailing lists and IRC, or already following @twitterapi, the eng blog is a good resource. On Wednesday, Raffi blogged about changes that impact developers regarding requirements around authentication.Read more…

A TweetDeck For Every Occasion

If you’ve been following the news you’ll have noticed that TweetDeck is broadening into the mobile world. Maybe you’re already rocking out with TweetDeck on the iPad or DMing your mates on TweetDeck iPhone. If you’re REALLY in the loop you’ll know…Read more…

Tracing traffic through our stack

The @twitterapi has had two authentication mechanisms for quite a while now: HTTP Basic Authentication and OAuth. Basic authentication has gotten us so far! You can even use curl from the command line to interact with our API and simply pass a username and a password as a -u command line parameter when calling statuses/update to tweet, for example.Read more…

Introducing FlockDB

Twitter stores many graphs of relationships between people: who you’re following, who’s following you, who you receive phone notifications from, and so on.Read more…