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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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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 to try premium accounts in Japan
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Twitter Introduces Geotagging Features for API
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Twitter's geotagging API goes live
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What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?
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Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
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Twitter's New Retweets Work Via SMS Too
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Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse
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Google is looking rocky while Apple enjoys a second wind
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Twitter's biz model found!
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Twitter CEO: Opportunities Around Data Sharing 'Interesting'
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Twitter's US Traffic Growth Stalls In September
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Start'ups Flock to Twitter, Looking to Capitalize on Network's Growth
News & Analysis
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Twitter in data-mining talks with Microsoft and Google - Rumour
Strategy Eye
- 2009-10-07
Twitter may be poised to turn its large user base and high profile into revenues following reports that the micro-blogging platform is in separate talks with Google and Microsoft to license its torrent of real-time posts. Tech blog All Things Digital quotes sources close to the talks...
Carphone Warehouse's Twitter Strategy
BNET
- 2009-08-13
After reading Tyler Kearn's great post about the dangers of "by default" corporate twittering, I stumbled across* a really interesting interview with Guy Stephens, online help manager at The Carphone Warehouse CPW, about how the mobile phone retailer uses micro-blogging for customer service. The whole interview is a must-read...
Twitter's 101 Primer for Business Users
BNET
- 2009-07-25
Yesterday, after rereading all of those leaked internal Twitter documents published by TechCrunch recently, I started getting a better grasp of the company's strategy going forward. As we noted yesterday, a newly redesigned home page will be launching soon that should help newcomers, including business people, figure out what this...
Best Buy Twitters an Extension of Service Strategy
BNET
- 2009-07-19
When Best Buy realigned its work force several weeks ago, even demoting some employees from supervisory to customer service roles with commensurate pay cuts, observers couldn’t help but wonder if the company could continue to rely on their enthusiasm in the aftermath. Apparently, the company still is...
Manage Your Twitter Account in Outlook with TwInbox
BNET
- 2009-07-14
Most hardcore Twitter users rely on TweetDeck or a similar program to read, tweet, retweet, and all that. But such programs aren't exactly boss-friendly: They instantly betray the fact that you're not working. Enter TwInbox, which lets you manage your Twitter account inside...
Making A LinkedIn For Twitter
BNET
- 2009-07-02
Back in the days before Facebook, no one would have ever suggested that businesses get involved with social networks. Can you imagine someone suggesting to Michael Dell that his company ought to have a MySpace page? Today, not only does Dell Computer Company have a Facebook page...
Microsoft Ignores Twitter Outlook Complaints
BNET
- 2009-06-25
Microsoft has seen the fury of the masses and like Atlas, shrugged. A Twitter campaign astroturfed by email marketing campaign vendor Freshview is asking (or is it begging?) Microsoft to reverse course on a key technology decision made for Office 2007 in its next release of Outlook,...
Why Blogging Is On The Decline
BNET
- 2009-06-08
Blogging is in some ways the poster child for Web 2.0, which when you boil it down is an expression that signifies the Web's evolution from a static publishing platform to a communications and collaboration medium. But blogging is now in serious decline, to be replaced by tools from the...
IMshopping gets USD4.7m for shopping on Twitter
Strategy Eye
- 2009-04-29
IMshopping, a Twitter-based shopping service, has raised USD4.7m in Series A funding from SK Telecom. The company provides users with a mix of recommendation technology and human assistance designed to help them find specific products. Twitter users...
Compete: Twitter Passes New York Times
BNET
- 2009-04-07
Before dismissing this comparison as one of those apples-and-oranges deals, take a moment to think about it. Literally out of nowhere, the little micro-blogging platform that constrains your messaging to 140 characters or less, is, according to Compete.com, this very month passing the august NYTimes.com, as measured by numbers of...
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