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More problems at Twitter this week, with wonky follower counts and unscheduled “maintenance.” Nothing really out of the ordinary for Twitter, but how long can the fail whale survive out of […]

Open source Twitter AIR application Spaz has added supported for Identi.ca and Ping.fm. The support though at this stage isn’t for the non-technically inclined, with both requiring edits to Spaz’s code to work.
To use Identi.ca via Spaz, users must manually edit the preferences.json file, swapping twitter-api-base-url and twitter-base-url out for identi.ca/api. The genius though of […]

The next update of the Twitter/ FriendFeed/ Seesmic AIR application Twhirl will include support for Identi.ca, according to a scoop by Rafe Needleman at WebWare.
The even more interesting thing about the implementation: Twhirl supports push updates from Identi.ca, negating the need for regular refreshing (although the client can refresh as well). However Rafe notes that […]

Louis Gray has the scoop on a rather interesting story about Twitter bitting the hands of the Twitter developer community. The short version is that Twitter has restricted unauthenticated API requests to 100 per hour, the same current rate Twitter users have when accessing Twitter via third party tools.
The net effect: Twitter focused services […]

The team behind the open source Twitter alternative Laconi.ca, the code behind the Identi.ca microblogging service, has released the codes first API.
The new API is described by the Laconi.ca dev team as Version 0 and not a “real API”, but a way to read and write to Identi.ca programmatically. The API 0 also has a […]

Spanish microblogging service YouAre has moved into private beta after a year in development.
A lot has happened in the microblogging space in the last twelve months, but Blogs Media, the company behind YouAre has maintained a steady as she goes, get it right development approach. The private beta is planned to last anywhere between […]

Broadband video publisher thePlatform — owned by Comcast since mid-2006 — has purchased social media company Chirp Interactive.
Chirp Interactive built applications for social networks, namely its Chirpscreen utility that functioned as an interactive screensaver with content from Facebook and Twitter. thePlatform says it plans to discontinue all of Chirp’s past services and instead focus […]

The UK is dominating America when it comes to Twitter usage.
New analysis out by Hitwise this morning shows British use of Twitter was a full 70 percent higher than American use last week. UK visits to the site jumped a massive 631 percent over the past 12 months.
The researchers note that their measurements are […]

It’s official: Twitter has taken Summize under its wing.
An acquisition was formally announced this afternoon. Summize’s services will be integrated under the Twitter brand and its staff of five engineers will move into Twitter’s San Francisco office.
As Twitter’s blog explains:
“Keeping up with interesting news and people you care about is […]

Location based microblogging Brightkite gained a lot of attention when it launched in closed beta last year. Brightkite offers location focused microblogging that linked a Twitter style short message service with photos and a users given location.
It was the first location based network I used, and for a short time at least I regularly […]

Posty is an Adobe AIR application that supports interaction with Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed.
Posty delivers content for each via a separate tab for each service. Customization features are basic, allowing users to change the color of fonts, but nothing else. Posty users can post to one, all, or a combination of each service […]

White label social network provider Pringo has added a micro-blogging service to its mix, a move claimed to be the “first white label social networking platform which allows customers to employ Twitter-like functionality.”
We’ve seen no shortage of new players enter the microblogging space recently as Twitter has ridden the fail whale. I don’t have […]

Video microblogging service Hictu has upgraded its offering, at the same time entering the emerging blog video commenting space. Hictu, for those not aware of the service, was the very first video microblogging service, although it tends to be overlooked for Seesmic these days.
The upgrade to Hictu delivers a diversity of microblogging tools that pushes […]