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The Blink-182 TweetDeck

We’re big music fans here in TweetDeck and we love to see bands and musicians connecting with their fans on Twitter. So we were delighted when we saw Mark Hoppus and the rest of the guys in Blink182 using TweetDeck to talk to their fans on Twitter…Read more…

Shuffle up and Deal

The World Series of Poker begins today in Las Vegas. For the poker fan, it’s a chance to see the best in the world contend with amateurs from all over the world.

If there’s a problem with the WSOP, it’s that there’s so much of it. It runs for almost two months, has over 50 events and involves thousands of players. Twitter user and poker pro Joe Sebok has created a great new tool for following all the action using Twitter.Read more…

We're Not Making A TV Show

Just to be clear, Twitter is not making a television show. Some Hollywood folks are developing something that leverages Twitter and they are extremely enthusiastic as evidenced by all the media hubbub yesterday and today. We have little to do with their efforts but we wish them success.

Like the thousands of apps being built around Twitter, there is a growing interest from the entertainment and news industry. We see these projects and others as yet another way the ecosystem is enriched for everyone who uses Twitter.Read more…

Twitter Goes Hollywood?

The web is abuzz today with talk of a “Twitter TV show.” I’m even getting folks asking me if they can audition. Indeed, there are a lot of interesting developments happening in the television space—MTV, G4, CNN, E! and various independent production companies are all leveraging Twitter for fun new projects. There are probably a bunch we don’t even know about yet.

Is There An Official Twitter Show?Read more…

Hello, New Zealand

Last week we launched full, two-way SMS for Vodafone customers in New Zealand. The shortcode for Twitter in NZ is 8987 or TWTR. As always, Twittering over SMS is a standard rate message or deducted from your bundle and receiving notifications is free. If you’re not a Vodafone customer, don’t worry—we’re working on it.Read more…

Spam and sorting the ‘tweet from the chaff’

Spam’s everywhere nowadays, it’s even moved onto Twitter. Plus the spammers are cottoning on to where they’ll find the greatest audience on Twitter and using hashtags for trending topics to bug the hell out of most of us. Yesterday the #Media140 h…Read more…

Does Twitter Hate Advertising?

When we speak publicly about how Twitter might become a profitable business, we talk about the idea of commercial usage and then explain that we’re still exploring what that means—that’s true. We also say traditional web banner advertising isn’t interesting to us which is also true. However, to say we are philosophically opposed to any and all advertising is incorrect.Read more…

Getting to know you

We’re friends, right? And friends should know a little about each other, right? Well we’re not sure we’re keeping up our side of the deal here so we’d like to take some time to get to know you better. And by getting to know you more we can make TD…Read more…

TweetDeck fit for a Queen

It’s always interesting to see the crazy assortment of people from all walks of life using TweetDeck. It’s great to see TweetDeck being used by people as varied as the European Space Agency, bands like New Kids on the Block and Nine Inch Nails and…Read more…

The Replies Kerfuffle

Twitter evolves and thrives on how folks use it. Some of our best features are invented by users, so listening is extremely valuable. Replies and conversations are awesome and we fully intend to support and encourage their growth. We removed a setting that 3% of all accounts had ever touched but for those folks it was beloved. The use cases that folks loved about this setting will return in a new and improved form.Read more…

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