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Results from The Twitter Blog forSeptember 2006

Use It In Scrabble

Xanga, Blogger, Google, Odeo, and Twitter. Of all the web products I’ve worked on, Twitter is the first one with a name that was already in the dictionary when we launched.

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What's Your Status?

Twitter was in part created because we thought the increasing amount of folks using the status message field in their IM client to indirectly communicate with friends indicated a potential need or market for a service built around that sort of use case. Check out the Wikipedia entry on Status message (IM):Read more…

Exploding Twitter

Don't Answer That! Or: What About Texting?

Today California joins New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and 20 other countries around the world in outlawing hand-held mobiles while we drive.Read more…

The Future of Web Apps

Some of us from Odeo and Twitter were at The Future of Web Apps conference at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco today and yesterday. Evan gave a talk in which he mentioned Twitter.

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Twitter, Twitter on the Wall

Check out this mirror that displays text messages. It’s a design by Robert Stadler. You could check out your Twitters while brushing your teeth in the morning.

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Putting Twitter on The Map

Patrick has done it again with Twittermap, a Google Maps and Twitter mashup that displays the latest Twitters from participants around the world.Read more…

Twitter and Microformats

Twitter Syntax on the Microformats wiki. Send these commands to 40404 and interact with Twitter on your mobile phone.Read more…

Welcome Fellow Bloggers

Cool, Twitter Blog showed up in the coveted Blogs of Note sidebar much to our surprise. Thanks for that, Blogger team.By the way, did you know Blogs of Note has its own blog and you can subscribe to the feed? Here is how you can subscribe to Blogs of Note (or any blog) in Google Reader:Read more…

Techcrunch on The Future

Techcrunch: “The future of computing is definitely going to be heavily impacted by hand held mobile devices, so show me something that resembles IM, mobile blogging and group SMS mashed up and I’m interested.”Read more…

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