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Twitter now available in Russian and Turkish

Starting today, you’ll be able to use Twitter in Russian and Turkish. We added these two languages to our Translation Center about two months ago. Thanks to the fast, high-quality work of our translators, both languages are now available on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com.Read more…

The Dark App Rises: New iPhone TweetDeck Is Here

You all enjoyed the trailer, but now the year’s biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here! In Hollywood they would call it a “re-imagining” - keep the essence of the original, but bring it bang up to date with a new te…Read more…

The Tweets of San Francisco

The city where we have started and grown will remain our future home. Twitter is staying in San Francisco and has signed a lease to move our headquarters to Market Square, a historic building in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood that is being managed by our new partner and landlord, Shorenstein Properties.Read more…

Following @Portugaltheman: Musical Antics

Live Tweeting to the Stanley Cup

Discover: Basketball

Trends - now in 70 more locations

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

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

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

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…

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