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Learn Why Twitter Is A Good Business Platform

It would not take a genius to guess you know what Twitter is. While the state of the economy is, at last, showing signs of recovering; driving new business and retaining customers continues to be a battle. Subsequently, marketers are working overtime with a host of strategies. Key amongst these, Twitter is winning a lot [...]

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Twitter translates into Spanish

So how do you say “fail whale” en español? Twitter has launched a Spanish translation, according to a blog post Tuesday (in Spanish) by co-founder Biz Stone.
It’s the first of multiple volunteer-assisted translations for the microblogging site, the post explained. A look at Twitter’s public timeline will show that it’s used in many languages across [...]

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Microsoft to Data-Mine Facebook & Twitter

Microsoft has cut non-exclusive deals with both Facebook and Twitter for Bing to search their real-time data feeds. Google has followed suit at least with Twitter, but Facebook is the prize because it has like 40 million updates a day from its 300 million users. Not all Facebook updates will be searched by Bing, however, [...]

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Twitter goodness: Twee for Palm Pre

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Hey, Palm users. If you’ve been waiting for the WebOS Twitter app Twee to leave Homebrew status and graduate to Palm’s App Catalog, get moving. Twee 1.0, by Delicious Morsel, has hit prime time.
The Twee Twitter app comes in two versions: free and pro ($2.99). TweeFree has more features than other WebOS [...]

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Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too

Updated 4:30 p.m. PDT with additional details from Google.

It was indeed a nonexclusive deal: Google is going to be indexing real-time Twitter messages in search results, in a deal announced just hours after Microsoft debuted integration of “tweets” into its own search engine, Bing.
A post on the official Google blog by Vice President of Search [...]

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Facebook, Twitter integration comes to iTunes

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One of Apple’s smaller announcements at Wednesday’s music-focused event was that you’ll be able to share your deepest iTunes hopes and dreams through Facebook and Twitter.
Well, more specifically, you’ll have “Share on Facebook” and “Share on Twitter” options in a drop-down menu on album purchase pages in the iTunes Store to [...]

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TweetSaver makes a personal archive of Twitter

I’m always intrigued by backup tools for Web services that don’t really need backup. TweetSaver is no exception. This paid service backs up (almost) everything you’ve ever posted to Twitter, along with private messages and replies from other users. It then adds an extra layer of utility on top of it, like a search tool [...]

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Twitter Attack Could Have Been Defended Against

Allot’s ‘ServiceProtector’ behavioural threat detection system can protect against DDoS attacks, botnets and zero-day attacks
Woking, Surrey: 19th August 2009 – We’ve read about recent attacks on Twitter to get at the Georgian blogger Cyxymu, which also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and parts of Google. There has been much misguided comment about the risks to the Internet [...]

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Adium gets its Twitter on in version 1.4

Mac users long ago discovered the incredible power of Adium, the open-source, multiprotocol instant-messaging application for the Mac. The next time someone suggests that open source can’t innovate, is not user-friendly, etc., point them to Adium. It’s simply incredible.

What Adium isn’t, however, is a good Twitter client. That’s about to change, starting [...]

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