We knew something was up. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (pictured left) has stepped down, and co-founder Evan Williams moves from the Chairman role to CEO.
Williams talks about the change in a blog post: “While the board of directors and the company have nothing but praise for where Jack has taken us, we also agree [...]

It took a worldwide financial meltdown for Twitter to finally cough up the IM hairball. At BearHug Camp, I spent about 10 of the 30 minute executive visitation trying to pin down Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne on when exactly Track and IM would be back, and in what order. Turns out the [...]

By Eric Krangel
Late last night, Twitter launched election.twitter.com, a page that puts all of the service’s politics tweets on one scrolling feed. (Cofounder Biz Stone’s official announcement.) By showing every tweet about “Obama” or “McCain” in real-time, the site provides a sort of snapshot of what the Twitter hivemind thinks of the candidates and which [...]

by Don Reisinger
Just off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, announced today that it’s offering a new feature called “replize,” which enables sociamedian users to interact with each other using @username short codes, much like Twitter. But according to the company, its [...]

“First things first: Praise God.” That’s how Gospelr starts out its announcement that the company’s microblogging service is officially ready for users to sign up and “spread the word.”
It was bound to happen sooner or later.

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Hidden on Twitter amongst the chatter about today’s lunch menu and the best spots for happy hour lays a mound of up-to-the-minute user generated commentary on just about any major topic.

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A neat new tool for companies that are looking to use Twitter for marketing: Twittertise, which lets you schedule Twitter messages in advance to send automatically.

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Kudos to the folks at Twitter, who seem to have gotten their biggest weakness — reliability problems — mostly sorted out this summer.

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