Here is a funny yet interesting news. It’s about our favorite social networking site Twitter. But before I start, let me ask you few questions first! Do you drink? Do you drive? If your answer is “Yes” for both the questions then, do you do these things simultaneously? If your answer is “Yes” again, it’s the time to have your name displayed on Twitter I’m not kidding. The Houston Police... 

Twitter’s international traffic continues to stagnate as the microblogging site’s number of unique visitors flattened in November. Twitter’s traffic might still be ranked #14 by Alexa at the moment but the truth is, Twitter’s growth has been on a serious decline over the past couple of quarters. Twitter had 60.3 million unique visitors in the month of November compared to 58.3 million... 

In terms of technological highlights and the breakthrough of gadgets and applications, 2009 is probably the most successful year in a long time. This is the year when smartphones took off with the application market becoming worth over a $1 billion, everyone and his dog began to ‘tweet’ and real-time search became the new goal for software giants the world round. Beginning of ‘The... 

It was a big news when Twitter started selling tweets to Google and Microsoft (Bing), roughly a month back. Following the foot steps of Twitter, MySpace and Facebook have signed deals with Google to share real-time search data. Google has begun adding real time results to its search engine, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries. And it is... 

In recent past, we’ve seen corporates utilize Twitter’s services more and more to get in touch with their customers. But Twitter has to make some money too. That’s why the micro-blogging service is set to launch paid business accounts next year, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. But no need to worry Corporate Companies. It’s NOT the end of the world for you; not yet. You guys will... 

I agree that Twitter is arguably one of the best social networking platforms at the moment with its enormous power to offer vivid, lustrous universe of new friends, new ideas, hilarious little punch lines and occasionally even a sparkle of breaking news. When a platform comes with such attractive features, unfortunately, it also attracts a horde of people trying to promote their business. I don’t... 

Looks like Twitter has finally figured out a way to monetize its real time data generated by over 19 million monthly users. Twitter Inc. is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what’s on people’s minds at any given moment. Google announced... 

Since its birth, Twitter, the micro blogging platform has grown at the speed of light and kept a steady progression ever since then. The way Twitter has grown beyond the ordinary and become a phenomenon is awe-inspiring. Thus it is no surprise why today Twitter is being used by many new online services using the micro blogging platform as a backbone messaging system and why many companies, agencies...