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Is Twitter On the Cusp Of A Turnaround? Maybe Or Maybe Not… - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 21 Jul 2008 11:46 AM PST

For awhile, there was nothing Twitter could do right. Frequent crashes would prompt a slew of angry bloggers to rant about the service in lengthy posts that criticized the company…

Twitter ‘Bigger In UK Than US’, White Van Man Taking It Mainstream? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jul 2008 02:53 AM PST

And you thought it was mostly Americans addicted to the SMS/IM/web presence thingamy… ? Web measurer Hitwise says it’s the reverse - at least, proportionally. “Last week the site’s share…

Twitter Buys Micro-Blogging Search Site Summize; Reportedly $15M Cash+Stock - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 15 Jul 2008 09:33 AM PST

Twitter announced today that it has officially acquired Summize, according to a post written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. All five of Summize’s engineers will move to San Francisco and…

Twitter Officially Announces Its Funding; Jeff Bezos Participates - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:40 PM PST

Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already…

Twitter Closing its $15 Million Round With Spark; Bit Less Than $100M Valuation - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 10:26 AM PST

As has been reported and rumored for the last month or so, the much-hyped mobile messaging and community service Twitter is in the process of closing its $15 million round,…

Twitter Gets $15 Million Second Round; $80 Million Valuation: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 22 May 2008 08:33 AM PST

Given the obsession with all things Twitter, this has been one of the most anticipated and hotly discussed fundings in a while: Om reports that after much jostling, the micro-blogging/messaging…

Twitter Says Konichi-wa To Japan; With Ads - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:34 AM PST

Mobile/web/IM status messaging service Twitter has launched its first localization in Japan. Tokyo has more Twitterers than even its native San Francisco. Unlike Twitter.com, Twitter.jp includes display ads. First sponsor…

Twitter Launching In Japan; Investment From Digital Garage: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 08:51 PM PST

Twitter, the microblog platform, is going to Japan, officially, and has received an undisclosed amount of investment (though small) from local investment firm Digital Garage, according to reports. The company…