Twitter Looks to Widen Appeal. Twitter Inc., trying to put recent management changes behind it and build its business, is taking steps to broaden the appeal of the well-known messaging service. The San Francisco company, which lets users broadcast and view short messages, wants to make it easier for new users to navigate the service and help longtime users find interesting content. While Twitter has more than 200 million registered accounts, it doesn't say how many are active users. Users discuss a variety of topics, but some people—especially adults—view the service as a vehicle for celebrities to broadcast their thoughts online. Twitter wants to show how the service works to first-time users by highlighting tweets from people in their geographic regions, such as local politicians and musicians, when they first sign on, people familiar with the matter said. It is unclear when the changes will be introduced or how Twitter may use Tweetdeck. Mr.
Why Twitter Would Be Smart to Buy Tweetdeck. Five Reasons Why Twitter Will Kill TweetDeck. Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Mrinal Desai, co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. On reading today’s report by the Wall Street Journal that Twitter is in talks to buy TweetDeck, I believe the only reason it is doing so is to protect its turf. Less than a week ago, CNN wrote a piece that UberMedia will be developing a competitor. Ubermedia, is the same company, that was supposed to have bought TweetDeck two months ago. UberMedia is also the same company that has been on an acquiring binge of popular Twitter clients—UberTwitter, Echofon and Twidroyd, namely. Shortly after that, Twitter blocked Ubermedia for violation of many of its terms of service.
Lets first look at some major milestones of the Twitter app economy: July 14, 2008. I think there are a number of non-obvious places, like desktop publishing was on the Mac, where something entirely new will be built on top of Twitter. 1. When Twitter bought Tweetie, they said: 2. 3. 4. 5. Official: TweetDeck Has Been Acquired By Twitter - The TweetDeck Blog. All Decked Out. In early 2008, a London-based programmer named Iain Dodsworth began thinking about how to organize everything happening on Twitter. His answer was TweetDeck, a groundbreaking dashboard for monitoring what people are saying in real-time. Today, we’re pleased to announce that the TweetDeck team has joined Twitter. This acquisition is an important step forward for us. TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about.
TweetDeck is a great example of a third-party developer that designed tools for the incredibly important audience of Twitter power-users and, in turn, created value for the network as a whole. For TweetDeck’s perspective on today’s news, check out their blog here. (Photo source) Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service. Would You Trust Twitter to Store Your Photos? Feature May Launch Soon. Twitter will launch its own photo sharing feature very soon, according to a purported scoop by Alexia Tsotsis today at TechCrunch.
(Similarly loose lips confirmed the same to AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes later today.) After years of struggles to stay online and apparently giving up any hope of retrieving archival messages in text for its users, a move into photo hosting and sharing would be another show of confidence by Twitter in its newfound architectural stability. But would you trust Twitter to host your photos? Twitter, the network for fleeting thoughts, in short form? It’s unclear exactly when such a feature could launch, Tsotsis reported that it could happen within days but noted with a Crunchlike grin of self-satisfaction that “naturally this post might change that.” Many developers have expected Twitter to do something like this for a long time, though, and it makes a lot of sense for the company to enrich its offering by building photo sharing in-house.