Twitter: Selling is not an option. IPO is.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said it again. They have no plans to sell the company to any of the web biggies like Google or Microsoft.
The company is here to stay and might opt for an IPO in the coming years.
Stone did say that they are closing [...]
Twitter on mobile in Japanese
Twitter has launched a new mobile edition of their service for users in Japan.
Japanese is now the only language supported by Twitter along with English.
The company has already stated that they are working on adding support for more languages in the near future. Spanish, German, French and Italian [...]
Twitter has no plans to sellout
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has clarified that they have no plans to sellout the company.
Twitter is currently one of the hottest service on the web today.
Stone said: “Twitter is not interested in being acquired by a bigger company, we want to build an impressive company on our [...]
Twitter aims to go local in the coming months
Twitter is the hottest social networking service on the web right now. Facebook is still the biggest.
One of the problems accessing Twitter for people around the world is the language barrier.
Twitter.com is only available in English and Japanese language right now and they plan [...]
Twitter: Ads are not coming at least this year
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has revealed that they currently have no plans to introduce ads to the service this year.
He added that the company is doing well with the funding they have received.
They are still focusing on adding more features and generating enough value for the users.
Stone: [...]
Twitter aims to generate revenues starting this year
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has said that they are aiming to start generating revenues from their micro-blogging service by the end of the year.
The aim of the message was probably to please the investors who have betted millions of dollars on this service which has become the talk [...]
Twitter working on location based API
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has blogged that the company is now working on providing a location based API which would enable users of the service to pinpoint their locations while tweeting.
Stone said that this new functionality would enable users to send their location with each of their Tweets. [...]
Twitter fails to trademark Tweet term
Twitter had filed to trademark the term Tweet earlier this year.
The popular social networking service seems to have failed in doing so.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents available online shows that the filing was denied.
The Patent office found out that several other companies including TweetMarks, Cotweet, and [...]
Twitter promoting Firefox 3.5 on user profile pages?
This might just be a testing by the people behind Twitter…
A couple of Twitter users have reported that they are seeing a special message on their profile pages.
The message advices the user to upgrade/switch to a better web browser. And the product highlighted on the section [...]
Twitter is back online with increased capacity
Twitter was down for a while earlier today. It was a planned maintenance period which was earlier delayed as they wanted to enable Iranian users to communicate with each other.
Apparently, the US State Department had advised Twitter to stay online the previous day (the scheduled time for the [...]
