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UberMedia has found itself in some trouble. Twitter got angry and cracked the whip suspending UberMedia’s UberTwiter, and twidroyd. Twitter put out a post that explained to users that they had suspended these two services and redirected users to its direct links for iPhones, Blackberry and Android. The suspension had been necessitated by UberMedia’s violation [...]

A service developed by MediaFriends which offers Free SMS services, HeyWire, is now getting into a partnership with Twitter. The two will offer a service that will be available globally which will be known as HeyTweet. HeyTweet will allow users to send Tweets on their mobiles via SMS free of charge. They will also be [...]

A new Pew Research Centre report shows that eight percent of the people who use the internet, use Twitter. Also Twitter was found to be more popular among Latinos and African Americans. More than 2,200 adult internet users were surveyed in November. When figures are broken down city dwellers, females and young adults are more [...]

Apparently being active on Facebook and Twitter can influence your rankings on search engines. According to Danny Sullivan who had interviews with Google’s and Bing’s search engine executives, the two search engines attach more or less authority to the links on a users Tweets based on the users authority on Twitter. A user’s authority is [...]

For the first time since it was founded Twitter has filed a UDRP complaint. This happened late last week where Twitter is seeking to get ownership over the domain name twittersearch.com. This move is understandable since the aforementioned domain can easily cause confusion. Twitter happens to have a search product with the name “Twitter Search”. [...]

You can make money online with a Twitter advertising site and Cost per Action (CPA) ads. A CPA is different from a Pay per Click (PPC) ad because you only get charged for clicks that follow through all the way for the advertised product or service and get paid for actual leads that you provide [...]

Verizon has bought “#CyberMonday” a promoted trend marking Cyber Monday which comes right after Black Friday. On Cyber Monday users search the net for holiday deals. The promoted trend on Twitter makes a sponsored Verizon Tweet appear when users click on CyberMonday. The tweet tells users of a Seasonal Surprises that will run for 24 [...]

Twitter is still interested in working with Facebook even though the two have not yet agreed to exchanging data equally. Since the two companies share a lot of the same users, connecting them seems sensible to Twitter. The two companies integrate but the exchange is usually one way. During the Web 2.0 Summit Twitter’s CEO [...]

Since Twitter launched a new front feature in September, it has been quiet so as to let people get used to the new layout. But now Twitter is set to introduce something new. Currently the company is testing on a top navigation tab know as “People”. The People tab which is located on the right [...]

Twitter has introduced a new angle in its business plan this week. Twitter has partnered with a social data provider Gnip to offer tweets for sale. There is a condition for buying the tweets however as the companies that buy them are not allowed to neither sell nor display them. The tweets are to be [...]