Posted on Friday, 30th October 2009 by admin
Note: Tweets are read from the bottom to the top
Note 2: Everything was translated to modern English
Note 3: Yes, computers (and twitter) existed since before the first human walked the earth
The Dawn of Man
Several decades BC
Modern times
The future
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Posted on Sunday, 25th October 2009 by admin
Twitter Inc., the Web site that lets people post 140-character messages, plans to add services for businesses that will generate revenue in the fourth quarter, co-founder Biz Stone said.
The products might include an “analytics dashboard” to help companies monitor Tweets about their business, or verified corporate Twitter accounts, Stone told reporters yesterday at an event in Mexico City.
Twitter, based in San Francisco, is seeking ways to generate revenue after reaching 20.1 million U.S. users in June, according to researcher ComScore Inc. in Reston, Virginia. Companies using the service to communicate with customers may be willing to pay for added features, Stone said.
The paid services would probably be offered on a limited basis at first, Stone said. He didn’t say how much they will cost or how much revenue they could generate.
While Twitter is growing “like gangbusters,” there are many people who are aware of the site and aren’t yet using it, providing an opportunity for further expansion, Stone said. The company has a goal of expanding to about 100 employees this year from about 65, he said. Still, Twitter is being careful about ensuring it hires the right people, Stone said.
This month, the company hired Dick Costolo, a former Google Inc. executive, as chief operating officer.
To attract more people to Twitter, the company’s designers are also working on a project to help new users discover others who might have similar interests or who live nearby, Stone said.
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Posted on Wednesday, 21st October 2009 by admin
Though she once praised Twitter, Lacy has since become disillusioned by the amount of skin-centric span that’s clogging her and her friends’ feeds. Yes, there are ways to block the site’s cabal of sluts, but Lacy argues it’s far too hard, so she’s offering Twitter her own advice — and knocks Tila Tequila in the process:
There’s no reason why Twitter shouldn’t be catching spam, or at least making it easier to report.
Unless, of course, Twitter wants to be the new MySpace (NWS). After all, a lot of that site’s early growth came from call girls, strippers, and purveyors of porn. Tila Tequila, who has been pictured in Playboy, Penthouse, and other publications, even got an MTV show out of MySpace…. If Twitter wants growth for the sake of growth, porn will do that.
But knowing the founders, my guess is that the site doesn’t want that kind of success. Lewd content helped hobble MySpace’s advertising efforts.
With The Olds leading the Twitter revolution, Lacy insists the site do something about this madness or face the consequences. But we say there’s a far easier solution: don’t “follow” or click on links to people you don’t know, especially if they have whorish names like “Kiki” or “Cocoa” or feature pictures of bikini-covered breasts.
Even if Lacy and other worried people do leave the site, it shows no signs of slowing down, especially since a federal judge just launched a page that educates kids on civics and DePaul University is offering a class all about the site. If anything, Lacy’s arguments will only help the site: you’re nobody until somebody tries to stir up a frenzy of “family values” outrage.
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