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Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter Robyn Twomey for TIME ENLARGE + Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up! (44) Facebook MORE... Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Related Audio Host Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movement Download | Subscribe Specials The World of Twitter Specials Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds Specials 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business Stories The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher More Related The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The Future of Twitter I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams w

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

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.

Now you can use Docs to store and share files in any format, such as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF. Files can be up to 250 megabytes in size, and you get up to 1 gigabyte total storage for free. Now Chrome OS or systems like Netbook Pack can store any file, which was a previously impossible.

Twitter's trying to step up its game with a newly introduced Discovery Engine -- a souped-up search feature coming soon to your Twitter home page. The futuristic-sounding service packs some extra punch into Twitter's existing search functionality and could give the site's Web interface a much needed jolt of energy.

The 100 most popular sites mashing up and remixing Twitter as measured by the number of bookmarks at delicious.

The 100 most popular sites mashing up and remixing Twitter as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us

Twitt(url)y is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.

See your tweets dissected by topic. Here's my twylah page for my Twitter account. You can see common topics and it is organized nicely. I set this up sometime back.

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ARCHIVE YOUR LIFE. Sum up your day in 280 characters. Can't remember what you did this time last week? Free, secure, private and unsociable. Detail is optional, your memory will fill in the rest.

Twups is a twitter aggregator, pulling the most popular twitter topics into one place, so you can keep up to date on what is going on in the world, via twitter. We also make it super easy to reply directly to a tweet, or even retweet something you find on Twups directly from your Twitter account. All topics can be found via category or alphabetically, you can also do a quick search. You can also suggest topics via our

Eddy is a media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter. It offers three primary features: rapid collection and curation of what people are saying about an event, moderation of acceptable material, and speedy, reliable republishing of these conversational streams. Setup of the application is fast and easy, and made specifically for use by interactive media designers.

"TiddlyTweets is the work of Fred and Jonathan from Osmosoft. It serves as an example of a client-side mashup, creating a useful application in a web-friendly way, using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're interested, you might like to know how this application is put together. It's really a TiddlyWiki loaded up with plugins. Read on for how to hack this "

Jennifer Aniston purportedly broke up with John Mayer because he devoted more time to Twitter than her. Really?

Twitter in its native form assumes we're ok with not keeping up with the abundance. / Social asymmetry addresses the scaling problem. / Twitter is an app that scales as as platform. / We'll complicate simple things as much as we have to.

The Twitter blackout proposed by New Zealander Juha Saarinen was picked up and mainstreamed by Stephen Fry resulting in global support for the initiative.

Nice post on how to keep up with twitter streams

If you're feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don't even know.