Results from The Twitter Blog for2006

Vandelay Industries

Friday, December 22, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [19:09 UTC]

Dan Cederholm wrote a great post at SimpleBits on the reasons he likes (and doesn’t like) Twitter. Then Tom Rose made a really funny comment to that post calling Twitter the “Seinfeld of the internet — a website about nothing.” Today Valleywag made it the Quote of the Day. Comparing Twitter to Seinfeld is fine by us—we’re huge fans!Read more…

30Boxes Adds Twitter Support

Thursday, December 21, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [00:59 UTC]

30Boxes is an intuitive web-based calendar application you can use to manage all the stuff going on in your life. Today they announced Twitter support.

Guest Post! Graham Waldon from Google

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [18:36 UTC]

Graham Waldon has been working for several years behind the walls of the Googleplex on Blogger and he knows all the tricks. In this first-ever guest post on the Twitter Blog Graham has a tip for how bloggers with twitter badges can sail smoothly past those occasional times when Twitter is taking a little, *ahem* “cat-nap” (so to speak).Read more…

Work on Twitter

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | By Evan Williams (@ev) [01:44 UTC]

Attention smart developer-types in San Francisco: We could really use some help making Twitter rock harder. Here’s the job posting.Read more…

What Are You Watching?

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [01:31 UTC]

Vodpod added Twitter support over the weekend. Vodpod is a fun way to watch and rate videos with emoticon actions. If you happen to use both Vodpod and Twitter, then the ratings you assign to videos (Watched, Loved, or LOL’d) will show up as Twitter updates. Interesting!Read more…

First Firing on Twitter

Thursday, December 14, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [21:25 UTC]

Sam Sethi announced getting fired via Twitter. Using Twitter to post about how you were fired for blogging (when your job is blogging for a blog network) has got to be a first. The article I wrote for Blogger users a couple years ago wouldn’t have helped Sam. Crazy!Read more…

A Positive Review?

Thursday, December 14, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [21:17 UTC]

Airbag Industries: “Twitter is a virtual subway ride packed full of cell phone conversations and schizophrenics. It’s like the Lewis Black of the web.” In our book, a creative review is a positive review.Read more…

TrippingOnWordsOnTwitter

Wednesday, December 13, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [21:20 UTC]

TrippingOnWords is “The Continuously Unedited, But Ever-Professional Account of Two Accidental Travel Writers” and now they’re on Twitter so you can learn about their travels while you travel.Read more…

Lots More Text Messages

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [18:37 UTC]

Reuters.co.uk: “Text messages sent to and from mobile phones will more than double over the next five years to 2.3 trillion messages sent by 2010, a survey said on Tuesday.”Read more…

Twitter in The Sunday Los Angeles Times

Sunday, December 10, 2006 | By Biz Stone (@biz) [21:53 UTC]

It’s real time at the same time: “The folks at Twitter.com have built their site around the seemingly toothless but cosmically important question, ‘What are you doing?’ Launched in July, the aptly named service aims to close the real-time gap between you and your friends when you are not e-mailing, instant- or text-messaging one another, by letting you send your nearest and dearest up-to-the-minute updates on everything you think and do.”Read more…

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