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Finding your tweeting US politicians in Congress

Just about like everyone else these days more and more folks in Congress are hopping on the Twitter bandwagon. Now you could try and find out if your representative has hitched themselves to the Twitter Bird’s ... continue

Twitter Expands and Improves Search With New ‘Discovery Engine’

Twitter is getting ready to roll out an update to its in-site search system. The new Twitter Search, referred to as "The Discovery Engine," is currently under trial with a limited subset of users and will reach ... continue

Twitter Tweaks @ Replies, Eyes New Site Design

Twitter has made some changes to its @ reply system, co-founder Biz Stone has announced. The @ replies will now be called "mentions" and will function a bit differently than in the past. The company has also ... continue

Getting the Crazies on Twitter

No matter where you turn these days everyone seems to be hopping on the Twitter bandwagon. From movies stars to sports stars and the occasional social media guru for good measure they are all signing up ... continue

Twitter fail: the rise of the ghostwriters

“If I am going to speak, it will come from me. It’s 140 characters. It’s so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that, I feel sorry for you.” Shaquille O’Neal. Twitter is the hot social service ... continue

No Time to Tweet? Hire a ‘Ghost Twitterer’

Celebs short on time (or lacking in interest) are seemingly sparking a trend of ghost-written tweets. More and more stars are hiring "ghost Twitterers" to maintain their Twitter accounts, The New York Times reports, and write all ... continue

The Truth About Twitter’s ‘Suggested Users’ List

Word broke recently that Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis had offered Twitter $250,000 for a spot on its coveted "Suggested Users" list. Calacanis has now upped his offer to $500,000 for three years in prime position. The "Suggested Users" ... continue

Recent Twitter Troubles (Mainly) Repaired

Twitter's team says it's finally fixed the slew of problems plaguing the site over the past several days. Numerous users -- myself included -- had experienced problems resulting from an apparent database inconsistency issue. The glitch was causing ... continue

Fake Stephen Conroy sacked by Telstra

Leslie Nassar, best known as Australia's most popular Twitter satirist for his parody of controversial Australian censorship Minister Stephen Conroy, has been fired by his employer Telstra. The rise and fall of Fake Stephen Conroy (FSC) has gripped ... continue

Twitter Pro accounts coming this year

According to Jessica E. Vascellaro at Wall Street Journal we could see the arrival of commercial (Pro) accounts in Twitterland at some point this year. The accounts would offer users more features in exchange for ... continue

British Schools May Trade History For Twitter

Students in the U.K. may soon swap out some history classes for Twitter education, if a recently proposed suggestion gets adopted. The idea is part of a government review of the primary school curriculum in England, the ... continue

Do you know what your Twitter juice is?

Ever wondered what kind of social media juice you might have from using Twitter? Curious as to what your stats are on the service? Then Twitalyzer might be just the thing you are looking for. ... continue

Skimmer: social management that looks pretty, but not much else

Skimmer is a new Adobe AIR desktop application that allows users to manage social networking accounts through a drop dead gorgeous interface. Skimmer supports Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flick and Blogger, and includes the ability to view media inline, ... continue

Twitter runs ads…sorry, “interesting topical experience” referrals

Twitter has teamed up with Microsoft and Federated Media for ExecTweets, a service that as the name suggests, aggregates Tweets from executives. Twitter's involvement is two-fold. Twitter has given permission for the site to use the Twitter logo, ... continue

Twitter blamed in Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer breakup

The latest split between on-again, off-again Hollywood power couple Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer is being attributed to Twitter! According to The Telegraph, Aniston split from Mayer after she discovered that while he was telling her that he ... continue

What Was SxSWi 2009’s Twitter?

Obviously, in 2006 Twitter made their bones by being generally awesome amongst the early adopter crowd at South by Southwest. It catapulted them into the mainstream of early adopters, which continued to evangelize the product and ... continue

Stephen Colbert has Twatted

Stephen Colbert was asked by Meredith Viera on the Today Show this morning if he Twittered. His response: "I have Twatted." If you don't know the basis of the word, Wikipedia explains it here. Here's one of those TV ... continue

TweetDeck Adds Facebook Integration

TweetDeck, the Adobe Air desktop Twitter management application, has released a beta version of its 0.24 release with added support for Facebook services. The TweetDeck 0.24 pre-release fully integrates Facebook functionality into the program in a few ways: ... continue

Kevin Rose launches WeFollow: a Twitter user directory

Digg founder Kevin Rose has entered the Twitter services game with a new Twitter user directory WeFollow. WeFollow is remarkably simple, and that's where its strength lies. The site indexes users based on user submitted interests via hash ... continue