Results from The Twitter Blog forJuly 2008

Big Change in Protected-User Model

Friday, August 1, 2008 | By Evan Williams (@ev) [01:02 UTC]

This week we rolled out a change that most people won’t notice but for those who do it’s a pretty big deal. The change effects those who choose to protect their updatesi.e., only allow those whom they approve follow them. Read more…

Twitter As News-wire

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [20:50 UTC]

Where Are My Followers?

Thursday, July 24, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [19:01 UTC]

Update: This has been fixed but the actual numbers and profile pictures might not look right until tomorrow afternoon due to caching.

Recently, some people began noticing a decline in their following and follower numbers. We investigated and determined this was caused by an error during a database upgrade. We’ll be restoring followers throughout the day to those who were affected and keeping the status blog and Get Satisfaction forum updated with specifics.Read more…

Follower Stats by TwitterCounter

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [14:06 UTC]

Here’s a fun new application from Dutch entrepreneur Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and friends that will appeal to anyone who likes simple stats. TwitterCounter is a free service for folks who want to track and share the number of followers they have on Twitter.Read more…

An Ongoing Battle

Monday, July 21, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [21:29 UTC]

Because following another account on Twitter is something you must do with intent, we don’t see the same kind of spam normally associated with email—namely, lots of unsolicited Twitter updates in your timeline. However, Twitter has grown popular and thus attracted those who would try to manipulate various features to redirect traffic or gain some other advantage.Read more…

Finding A Perfect Match

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [03:07 UTC]

Last month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union Square. The meeting with this other startup was largely a formality—we had already fallen in love with both the technology and the team.Read more…

Let Our Congress Tweet

Thursday, July 10, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [17:27 UTC]

From letourcongresstweet.org: “Congress should join us where we the people are talking, sharing and networking – online. As Congress reconsiders the restrictions placed on their Internet use, you can tell Congress to embrace the communication technologies that we already use.”Read more…

Twitter and XMPP: Drinking from The Fire Hose

Monday, July 7, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [22:41 UTC]

Last year, the folks over at Technorati approached us about building something unique to suit their needs regarding search. We created a special real-time feed of every single public Twitter update to be delivered over the open XMPP protocol. Despite delivery over a faster and cheaper technology, this entire public feed of Twitter updates is resource intensive—we had to be very careful about giving it out.Read more…

Twitter Glitter

Saturday, July 5, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [15:10 UTC]

WARNING EMITS SHOWERS OF SPARKS SHOOTS FLAMING BALLS AND REPORTSRead more…

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Thursday, July 3, 2008 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [01:16 UTC]

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