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Dow Jones Description
Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.
Number of Employees 2
Contact Information
539 Bryant St Ste 402
San Francisco, California 94107
1 510 220 2368
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Publishers: 51119
Recent Events
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Twitter "Contributors" targets business users
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Google Watch: Google Buying Twitter Rumor Resurfaces, Sadly
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@You: Banks Narrowing Their Social Media Focus
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There's A Stranger In My Tweet House
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Minnesota Tourism Industry Prepares for Transition to the 'New Normal'
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Twitter Planning Chirp Developer Conference
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New Twitter Mobile Compares Well with Old Twitter Mobile
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New TweetDeck Features Ease Networking Overload
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Thorsen named chairman of Brunswick County school board
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TweetTheBeat for IPhone
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Japanese pay plan for Twitter denied
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Twitter co-founder says company won't be sold
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Twitter funding values company at US$1-billion
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How Twitter Will Destroy Google
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Social Web sites can boost a business
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RealTime CrunchUp: Where's The Money In RealTime?
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Twitter signs SMS deal with O2
Strategy Eye
- 2009-07-13
O2 is to become the latest mobile operator to partner with Twitter to allow users to receive tweets via SMS, resurrecting a service that Twitter abandoned last year. O2 customers will be able to receive @replies and direct messages for free, under a 600-a-month fair usage limit. ...
Apple to bid USD700m for Twitter – Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2009-05-04
Apple is rumoured to be in late-stage negotiations to buy much-hyped micro-blogging service, Twitter, and reportedly wants to complete the deal before Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June. The deal would be a blow for Facebook and Microsoft, which have each tried and failed to buy the popular startup....
AllVoices to Adapt Twitter's Method to Gather Global News
BNET
- 2009-04-15
As Twitter ascends to the stratosphere as the communications channel of choice -- and there's no stopping it now -- media types can't be blamed for wishing there were some easier ways to separate out, say, what our dear fellow Twitterers may have had for breakfast, from significant breaking news...
Twitter SMS returns to UK
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-27
Twitter is partnering with mobile operator Vodafone to allow UK users to receive tweets via SMS, resurrecting the service that it halted last year. Twitter was forced to abandon the service after is revealed that a single UK user could cost up to USD1,000 a year. ...
Replace I Want Sandy with PingMe
BNET
- 2008-12-12
Oh, Sandy, we hardly knew ye. We're talking about I Want Sandy, of course, the popular reminder service that's shutting down a week from today. What made "her" special was the way you could send a natural-language reminder (such as "Meet DB for lunch at 12:30 on December 19"), and...
Twitter's SMS Feature Endangered By Wireless Carriers
BNET
- 2008-11-28
Just this week, I was applauding Twitter for rejecting an offer from Facebook. One reason I noted was that Twitter’s SMS text feature makes alerts from twittering (tweeting?) news outlets such as ZDNet even more valuable. Now, that feature seems headed for the history books as wireless carriers impose fee...
Twitter acquires start-up Values of n
Strategy Eye
- 2008-11-25
Twitter is acquiring, for an undisclosed sum, Values of n, the startup behind Stikkit - a post-it note app - and I Want Sandy, a personal productivity portal for email, SMS and the web. The acquisition appears to be linked to the Values of n founder Rael Dornfest to...
Twitter acquires startup Values of n
Strategy Eye
- 2008-11-25
Twitter is acquiring, for an undisclosed sum, Values of n, the startup behind Stikkit - a post-it note app - and I Want Sandy, a personal productivity portal for email, SMS and the web. The acquisition appears to be linked to the Values of n founder Rael Dornfest to...
Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest
Content Next
- 2008-11-25
Twitter grabbed headlines today after reports surfaced saying it declined a $500 million buyout offer from Facebook. Now, Twitter is making more news today by saying it has acquired the assets of Values of n, a company that developed a sticky-note application as well as a personal productivity app...
Facebook and Twitter acquisition talks break down - Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2008-11-24
The likelihood of Facebook incorporating Twitter services into its social network is slipping away after acquisition talks between the two companies reportedly collapsed three weeks ago. Earlier this month, the blogosphere erupted with rumours that Facebook was set to acquire...
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