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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

politweets.com

1 510 220 2368

NAICS Code Other Publishers: 51119

Recent Events

  • TweetTheBeat for IPhone

    11/30/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Japanese pay plan for Twitter denied

    11/28/09 - New Venture Funded Investment - View Story

  • Twitter co-founder says company won't be sold

    11/24/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • Twitter funding values company at US$1-billion

    11/23/09 - New Investment - View Story

  • How Twitter Will Destroy Google

    11/23/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

  • Social Web sites can boost a business

    11/22/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story

  • RealTime CrunchUp: Where's The Money In RealTime?

    11/20/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story

  • Twitter to try premium accounts in Japan

    11/27/09 - New Venture Funded Investment - View Story

  • Twitter Introduces Geotagging Features for API

    11/20/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Twitter's geotagging API goes live

    11/20/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • What's Not to Like About Twitter's New Retweet Feature?

    11/19/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information

    11/19/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Twitter's New Retweets Work Via SMS Too

    11/19/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Twitter's New Retweet Feature Is Not the Apocalypse

    11/11/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Google is looking rocky while Apple enjoys a second wind

    10/27/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Twitter's biz model found!

    10/27/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Twitter CEO: Opportunities Around Data Sharing 'Interesting'

    10/20/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story

  • Twitter's US Traffic Growth Stalls In September

    10/19/09 - New Venture Funded Investment - View Story

  • Start'ups Flock to Twitter, Looking to Capitalize on Network's Growth

    10/19/09 - New Investment - View Story

News & Analysis

twitter and youtube inc. - All News and Analysis

  • iGoogle Finally Goes Social

    BNET - 2009-08-12

    Google today released a host of new gadgets and an "Update" feature to its customizable home page offering, iGoogle, in the U.S. that mirror many of the functions on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, such as the ability to share story links on status updates, play multiplayer games...

    Tags: gadget, social networking, status update

  • Krystal Blitz Gets Boost on Facebook, Twitter

    BNET - 2009-08-11

    Krystal Restaurants has kicked off a weeklong giveaway to promote its new Krystal Blitz energy drink. Each day through Aug. 17, the southern quick service chain will hide links on its Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube pages that direct participants to a coupon for a free 20-ounce Krystal Blitz. Once...

    Tags: Social Media, coupon, Energy Drink

  • Twitter Attack Knocks Out Service Again

    BNET - 2009-08-11

    Twitter experiences another distributed-denial-of-service attack, knocking out the microblogging service for a time. The attack follows a security incident Aug. 6 when Twitter was one of several Websites affected by a DDoS attack targeting a pro-Georgian blogger.Twitter's servers were hit Aug. 11 with another distributed denial-of-service attack, sending the microblogging...

    Tags: Attack, Twitter, distributed denial of service

  • Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed

    BNET - 2009-08-11

    In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we're faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being..." In other words, it's only a matter of time before...

    Tags: Twitter, service, story, Facebook, friend

  • More Companies Firing People Over Social Media (Mis)use

    BNET - 2009-08-11

    Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online.  A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs.  An official statement...

    Tags: Twitter, Internet, employee, Social Media, Proofpoint Inc.