Luckily for Twitterers, there’s Mr. Tweet, a free recommendation service that analyzes your current network to suggest new friends and members whose feeds may be of interest. Like the Shorty Awards and many other third-party applications that make use of Twitter’s platform, the company has no official ties to San Francisco-based Twitter, which allows people to post messages up to 140 characters in
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Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook (NYTimes.com) - 0 views
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For now, a marriage between Twitter and Facebook is not meant to be - but the courtship between the two Web 2.0 companies could be rekindled in the future. That was one message from Evan Williams, the chief executive and co-founder of Twitter, in a talk at the Churchill Club in San Francisco Tuesday night.
Mr. Tweet Recommends Friends to Follow - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
NYTimes 8/6/09 5:00 PM | Twitter Still Struggling to Restore Service After Attack - 0 views
One Tweet Over the Line - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Power.com: A One-Stop Shop for Social Networkers (NYTimes.com) - 0 views
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Power.com, a Web start-up from Brazil with some prominent backers, aims to become the portal through which people access their online social lives. It's up against no less than the world's biggest Internet companies.
Twitter relaunches name search, still no tweet search on site - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The micro-messaging service Twitter has taken the slow time during the holiday to bring back a feature that like so many, went away when the site was having performance issues during the earlier parts of this year: People search.
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It seems like Twitter Search is such a useful and powerful feature of the service that it should be front and center on the main site, not buried away.
How Twitter Can Help at Work - Shifting Careers Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Politics Never Smelled So Tweet - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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If Senators John McCain and Barack Obama actually do debate Friday night, you will be able to watch what thousands of viewers think of their verbal sparring almost as they talk. Twitter, the service that lets techno-hipsters broadcast their thoughts in 140-character bursts, is setting up a special politics page to make it easy to tune into the chatter.
Twittering Tips for Beginners - Pogue's Posts Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Um artigo no New York Times sobre o Twitter.
The Twitter Train Has Left the Station - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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Rebuttal to an article critical of twitter published in the New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2010/01/stop-the-world.html Some interesting comments at the end of the post. Could be a good prompt for a class discussion.