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Our Truth is Why Twitter is Struggling. Our Truth is Why Twitter is Struggling Once upon a time, I was absolutely obsessed.

Our Truth is Why Twitter is Struggling

I love writing and I love connecting, Twitter gave me the platform to follow my passion. Six years and 60,000 tweets later, Twitter gives many an uneasy feeling that I can’t shake. Nickbilton : My first byline on A1 of the... #music. Tweetbot teases Vine integration, showing it may be easy for third-party clients to adopt. Viewing Vine videos in third-party Twitter clients isn't the best experience right now: they work, but you have to watch using an external player after following a link, whereas the official app displays them inline.

Tweetbot teases Vine integration, showing it may be easy for third-party clients to adopt

From what we're seeing, though, it looks like it may not be too hard for third-party developers to integrate the new functionality in full. GlobalWebIndex. Contrary to popular perception, Twitter has always been more of a niche social network in most countries around the world.

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In our first wave of research in July 2009, we estimated that Twitter had just 35.47 million monthly active users across the markets covered at the time. Twitter, however, is shaking off that niche status with impressive style, and as we being 2013, it is the fastest growing social platform on the planet.

GWI.8, the Q4 2012 dataset from GlobalWebIndex, shows that the number of active Twitter users grew 40% from Q2 2012 to Q4 2012. This is equal to 288 million monthly active users (claimed to have used or contribute to Twitter in the past month) across the 31 markets currently researched by GWI (representing nearly 90% of the global internet population aged 16 to 65). Expanding the Twitter Certified Products Program.

Dick Costolo says Twitter is a reinvention of the town square — but with TV. Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo gave a lecture earlier this week at his alma mater — the University of Michigan — where he talked to a crowd at the Ford School of Public Policy about how the real-time information network has changed the nature of communication and media in the 21st century.

Dick Costolo says Twitter is a reinvention of the town square — but with TV

Costolo spoke a lot about how Twitter has leveled the playing field for celebrities, many of whom can now talk directly to their fans without having to go through a media outlet or other intermediary, but he also talked about Twitter’s relationship with existing media, and it was clear from his speech that he sees it as being a very symbiotic one — especially when it comes to broadcast television. Twitter brings back the real-time, unfiltered conversation “The interesting things about the Agora, the interesting characteristics of it, are that it was multidirectional, it wasn’t someone standing on a stage like I am with you and just dictating. Looking for the signal amidst the noise. What I Learned From the Inside. Anyone saying he can run two companies is lying to you or himself. Can we finally stop pretending someone can run two companies if they just work hard enough or are brilliant enough?

Anyone saying he can run two companies is lying to you or himself

I'm looking at you Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter investor Peter Fenton, and everyone else who spent years arguing that it was totally doable. In various interviews and private conversations throughout 2011, people close to Twitter consistently maintained it was no big deal that Dorsey could build Square -- one of the single most ambitious, capital- and execution-heavy startups of our day -- and run product at Twitter -- a company that was woefully behind on any meaningful product innovation and desperately needed a visionary leader. You know what they all said whenever anyone asked whether this was sustainable. Jack Dorsey and Twitter: Can you have a part-time product visionary? The March of Twitter: Analysis of How and Where Twitter Spread.

To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah ( developer of TwitterGrader.com ) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the service's growth, along with information on the earliest users for each region. That gave a broad overview of the spread of the network, but I also did some independent research on user numbers in the first few months, and approached some of those early users to discover exactly what made them sign up to the service. I was expecting to see a wave of adoption spreading out of the tech hubs of the West Coast, but even back in December 2006 I found 121 users in New York, compared to 404 around the mother-ship in San Francisco.

There was even a healthy bunch of early-adopters in 'flyover country', with 6 users in Boise, 13 in Salt Lake City and 8 in Kansas City. How did Twitter grow in the early days? Twitter To Remove Third-Party Image Services From Its Apps. Twitter may need a Plan B. Twitter is a tragic tale. I've known Chuck Shotton since 1995, early days of the Mac web community.

Twitter is a tragic tale

I was doing Frontier, an editing and database environment that turned out to be an almost perfect match for web design and programming. Chuck was doing WebStar, the leading HTTP server for the Mac. Our products complemented each other well, and we've been friends ever since. Infographics / The Twitter Death Quadrant #API #Twitter. Ev Wiliams Defends Twitter, Gives Zero Shits About App.net. What does Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, think of App.net, the ad-free social network that costs $50 to join?

Ev Wiliams Defends Twitter, Gives Zero Shits About App.net

Not very much. He hasn't tried it, he said at a panel discussion hosted by Branch, a portfolio company of his investment vehicle, Obvious Corp., last night. Former Twitter CEO Says Network Needs a Better Metric Than Follower Count. Twitter users may obsess over their follower count, but co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams believes there needs to be a better way to measure one's reach and influence on the social network.

Former Twitter CEO Says Network Needs a Better Metric Than Follower Count

During a discussion with Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti and Branch co-founder Josh Miller at the site's headquarters in New York, Williams was asked whether he thinks Twitter should highlight the number of active followers users have rather than just the total follower count. Tweets Belong To The User….And Words Are Complicated. (image GigaOm) Like many of you, I’ve been fascinated by the ongoing drama around Twitter over the past few months (and I’ve commented on part of it here, if you missed it).

Tweets Belong To The User….And Words Are Complicated

But to me, one of the most interesting aspects of Twitter’s evolution has gone mostly unnoticed: its ongoing legal battle with a Manhattan court over the legal status of tweets posted by an Occupy Wall St. protestor. In this case, the State of New York is arguing that a tweet, once uttered, becomes essentially a public statement, stripped of any protections. The judge in the case concurs: In this Wired coverage, for example, he is quoted as writing “If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.”

Twitter's New Rules of the Road Means Some Apps Are Roadkill. Get straight by March 5, or get run over.

Twitter's New Rules of the Road Means Some Apps Are Roadkill

That’s the essence of what developers are facing with Twitter’s new more restrictive guidelines that took effect Wednesday. According to Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver, developers have six months to comply with the terms of Twitter’s new application programming interface (API) or face getting cut off from the Twitter data feed. Certified Products Program - Open for Business. Welcome to Medium — About Medium. Techniques for Live Tweet Curation. Updated on Tue, 2012-08-07 09:23 Many real-time display integrations want to highlight specific curated Tweets. Perhaps you want to display the Tweets you've determined are the best on a display at a conference, or mark a collection of Tweets to be rendered along the bottom of the screen during a television show, or to build a curated image gallery of some kind.

Guidelines for Use of Tweets in Broadcast. Twitter's API - We Actually Think Today's Changes Are Mostly Pretty Good ... - 89n. Twitter to developers: screw you guys! Imagine if Tim Berners-Lee had held on to the World Wide Web. For the first few years things would have been identical: web use would have exploded, driven largely by the efforts of third party developers who came up with new and amazing ways to use the web and who attracted users in their tens of thousands.

Then, when the web was a key part of many people's lives, Berners-Lee could have laid down the law. The web is my ball, he could have said, and if you don't play by my rules I'm taking it home! No more third party browsers! Our approach to Trust & Safety and private information. We want to take a moment to explain some of our general Trust and Safety policies and procedures, and address the specific case at hand that has unfolded over the past 48-hours (we normally don’t address matters pertaining to individual accounts for the privacy of the account, but here the relevant communications are now public).

When our Trust and Safety team receives a report from a user explaining that his/her private personally-identifiable information has been posted on Twitter, we investigate the issue and temporarily suspend the account if it is found to be violating our Guidelines & Best Practices. We make it possible for people to report posting of their private information because it may be used to harass or intimidate, and in certain circumstances may even be illegal. We have systems in place to address such behavior. Before the violating account is unsuspended, we ask the account holder to do two things: Finally, a look at the people who use Twitter. InShare385 The days of “I don’t get Twitter” may soon pass. Tweets are now a form of self-expression among connected consumers and it is this connected generation that continues to grow in size and influence year over year.

Much in the same way that TXTing is a natural form of common conversation, even if it’s a norm that’s outside of the world as you know it—Twitter is reflective of how millions of people are connecting and communicating. Over the years, Twitter has become a human seismograph measuring world events, popular culture, everyday sentiment,while providing a lens into every nuance that captivates our attention. #OnlyOnTwitter: Through the eyes of Olympians. Twitter reaches half a billion accounts — More than 140 millions in the U.S. Geolocation analysis of Twitter accounts and tweets by Semiocast Paris, France — July, 30th 2012 — Semiocast's latest study reveals Twitter reached the half billion accounts mark in June 2012, including more than 140 million in the U.S. alone.

User-base growth is slowing in Japan and Korea, yet Japan remains one of the most active countries. In June 2012, the top three cities by number of tweets were Jakarta, Tokyo and London. Semiocast has analyzed 517 million of Twitter user profiles created before July 1st 2012 as well as a sample of 1.058 billion public tweets posted from June 1st to June 30th 2012. Twitter Speeds Up Viewing Across its Site by Dropping the Hashbang. Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement. Cross-posted on the Twitter Engineering blog. S 2011 Year in review. Twitter Looks to TV, Media Partnerships for Growth - Digits. Does Twitter have more influence than Facebook?

More Twitter users use the site on mobiles than Facebook users, according to a comScore survey. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features You hear things about Facebook.