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  Twitter to promote marketers' special offers

  Twitter has introduced another advertising service, hoping to generate revenue this time by promoting special offers, events and one-time deals from marketers.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 July, 2010 05:42

  Tags: advertising, internet, Internet-based applications and services, social media, social networking, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Twitter application Grader.com hacked

  A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.

  By Robert McMillan | 12 February, 2010 07:50

  Tags: hack, security, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Twitter Local Trends: What's the tweet in your area?

  People logging on to their Twitter accounts this morning found a new feature waiting for them.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 28 January, 2010 07:08

  Tags: Trends, twitter, Twitter applications

• It's the first Twitter-only mobile device, but why?

  How much would you pay for a mobile device that does only one thing: Send and receive Tweets? A company called Peek is betting $199 and has created just such a device.

  By David Coursey | 04 November, 2009 04:28

  Tags: mobile phones, mobile Twitter apps, social networking, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Report: Twitter to release revenue-generating feature in Q4

  Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the companmy expects to add revenue-generating features to the microblogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report today on Bloomberg.com.

  By Sharon Gaudin | 10 September, 2009 05:05

  Tags: twitter, Twitter applications, web analytics

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  Twitter helps users track tweets by location

  Interested in tracking the Twitterers in your city or even your neighborhood? Or maybe you want to track the tweets sent from an area where there's a major event or disaster?

  By Sharon Gaudin | 24 August, 2009 05:12

  Tags: api, geolocation, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Developers eager to see Twitter improve platform stability

  Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company's platform stability.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 20 August, 2009 05:32

  Tags: social networks, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Twitter: latest application platform problems solved

  The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 18 August, 2009 12:56

  Tags: api, downtime, twitter, Twitter applications

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  Twitter down on Saturday, external apps to be affected

  Twitter experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 17 August, 2009 05:14

  Tags: downtime, social networks, twitter, Twitter applications

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  App developers stung by Twitter's DOS woes

  Developers who built applications for Twitter and generate money from them have been hard-hit by the micro-blogging service's many hours of downtime in the past day, as hackers pummel Twitter with an ongoing denial-of-service attack.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 August, 2009 05:04

  Tags: ddos, twitter, Twitter applications