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StatusPrivately Held
Websitetwitter.com
Blogtwitter.com/blog
CategoryWeb
Emailpr@twitter.com
Address 164 South Park
San Francisco, CA, 94107
USA
Employees17
Founded3/06

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Founded in July 2006, Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called “Explore” for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks.

The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo.

In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage.

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Websitetwitter.com
Blogtwitter.com/blog
StageLive
Launch DateMarch 1, 2006
Tags twitter, communication, text, messages

Twitter allows users to post text updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications. Users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, users can become “friends” with one another, or simply be a “follower.” Other than reading another person’s profile page, a user can also receive others’ updates through text messages, RSS or third party applications.

Twitter itself is a free service, though users may have to pay text messaging charges to the phone carriers.

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Above: Twitter Screenshot -- #1
Twitter screenshot
Above: Twitter Screenshot -- #2

Twitter Blocks

Websitetwitter.com
Blogblog.twitter.com
Tags socialnetworking

Twitter Blocks is a real-time visualization tool for recent updates from a user’s friends and their friends’ network of friends (and their friends’ friends’ network of friends, etc.).

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Above: Twitter Blocks Screenshot -- #1

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Charlie Salem - April 11, 2008 at 2:54am
Could someone PLEASE tell me what their bussness model is. Maybe i'm stupid but i just don't understand Are theey do a skype and / or marking up on the sms message costs to opertors in return for driving draffic OR just buying a bult number of mails and running themselves as a micro opperator? Please send any thought dorectly to me at charlie12@totalise.co.uk and relieve me of these sleepless agony!!!! Have a nice weekend. By the way - CRUNCHBASE RULES!!!! it's a brilliant site / service C
Pieter - March 17, 2008 at 1:50pm
What is their business model anyway? They don't display ads on their site...
Luixx - January 3, 2008 at 1:36am
with so much noise about instant messaging this business model will be expanding in the coming months. If Google adquired Jaiku it must worth it!
thaumata - November 5, 2007 at 1:07am
After being dragged to twitter by friends, I have to say that while the concept is good (nice to be able to SMS internet friends without giving out your mobile number) the performance is DISMAL. I get an error about every three page views and frequently get my tweets three hours late. When someone makes a more reliable product, twitter will probably lose people in droves. I know many already going over to pownce and jaiku for this reason alone.
Evorgleb - October 10, 2007 at 2:05pm
Great service for updating a user's status or "mini-blogging". However I question how much inovation can be done in the area.

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  1. Twitter, popular messaging service, gets cash - VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. joi.ito.com [edit]
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