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Just a few days short of its 4th birthday, Twitter marked a milestone of 10 billion tweets at approximately 16:54:11 Pacific Time on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
That makes approximately 6,925,208 tweets for each of the 1,444 days since Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006. Though, we know that most of those tweets have [...]

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This is Part 1 of a 3-part 4-part series.

WHAT IS IT?
Back on September 30th, Twitter announced on their blog that they would be launching their new Lists feature to a small group of users to Beta test. Lists allow Twitter users to organize the people they follow into groups. By segmenting your following list [...]

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Ever wonder about the early days of Twitter? Long before @Oprah and @aplusk, many social media and technology early adopters hopped on board helping to spur the service forward. If you’ve ever wanted to do an historical study of Twitter, then I’ve got three services that will give you a snapshot of what it was [...]

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(Originally published on TouchBase, March 9, 2009.)
Brian Chappell at Ignite Social Media in North Carolina was one of the recently selected users given access to test Twitter’s new search and trending features. Twitter announced on their blog that a random subset of users would be selected while they tested the features. But as of last [...]

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A few weeks back, Charles Mandel from The Globe and Mail (a national newspaper in Canada) asked me some questions for a piece he was writing about a start-up classifieds site who’s strategy was to leverage a Facebook group to get traction. The article appeared today in the Incubator column of the Report on Business [...]

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