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Discover: Basketball

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, April 14, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [16:50 UTC]

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Trends - now in 70 more locations

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, April 11, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [23:11 UTC]

We first launched Trends as a useful way for people to find out what topics are being talked about around the world, right now. Early last year, we added Local Trends to make it easier to find more locally relevant topics in specific countries and metropolitan locations. Today, we’re adding Trends for more than 70 new cities and countries - bringing the total number of locations to more than 100.Read more…

Following @NASA: Learn the moonwalk

  • The Twitter Blog
Friday, April 8, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [00:00 UTC]

Using various Twitter accounts, NASA is giving the world easy-access to their once-exclusive world, offering a look into the science, discovery and everyday life at an agency established in 1958–before most people even had color televisions. (Can you imagine?) Read more…

Testing The Future - Introducing TweetDeck Web Beta

  • TweetDeck
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | By TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) [23:30 UTC]
As Whitney Houston sang, “We believe that web apps are our future”… (well, near enough…). And today we’re launching a beta of a web app that you’re going to really love*. Since its launch in December last year, Chrome TweetDeck has consistentl…Read more…

Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster

  • Engineering
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | By Krishna Gade (@krishnagade) [18:30 UTC]

In the spring of 2010, the search team at Twitter started to rewrite our search engine in order to serve our ever-growing traffic, improve the end-user latency and availability of our service, and enable rapid development of new search features. As part of the effort, we launched a new real-time search engine, changing our back-end from MySQL to a real-time version of Lucene.Read more…

Discover new accounts and search like a pro

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, April 4, 2011 | By Twitter (@twitter) [19:08 UTC]

We’ve made it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on your interests. When you search for a topic, you can now discover accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. (Previously, you would have seen accounts that have the specific term in their name or username. ) Just click on the “people” section of the search results page or search from the “Who to follow” page.Read more…

So a bar walks into an app...

  • The Twitter Blog
Thursday, March 31, 2011 | By Doug Bowman (@stop) [16:46 UTC]

Last month, we released an update to Twitter for iPhone and iPad containing a number of features that made finding friends and sharing information on Twitter even easier. The iPhone app also contained a new feature we wanted to test named the QuickBar. The QuickBar was originally conceived to help users discover what’s happening in the broader world beyond people they already follow.Read more…

Improving Browser Security with CSP

  • Engineering
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | By Mark Percival (@mdp) [17:11 UTC]

If you are using Firefox 4, you now have an extra layer of security when accessing mobile.twitter.com.Read more…

Happy Birthday Twitter!

  • The Twitter Blog
Monday, March 21, 2011 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [16:40 UTC]

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The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011

  • Engineering
Monday, March 21, 2011 | By michael abbott (@mabb0tt) [16:36 UTC]

If you look back at the history of Twitter, our rate of growth has largely outpaced the capacity of our hardware, software, and the company itself. Indeed, in our first five years, Twitter’s biggest challenge was coping with our unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.Read more…

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