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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Twitter’s Q&A Ambitions
Armed with $200-million in fresh venture capital, Twitter has made an acquisition but it’s not something that cost them a lot, if any, money. Instead, Twitter acquired Fluther, a three-year-old business that specializes in offering Q&A service that is similar to Quora, Aardvark or Yahoo Answers. In return for probably a stake in the company, [...]
Twitter Still a Niche Service
For all the talk about Twitter’s growth, it is interesting to discover that only 8% of U.S. online adults use Twitter. For the first time, Pew focused on Twitter users as opposed to overall online usage. It found that Twitter is particularly popular among young adults, minorities and people who live in cities. According to [...]
Another VC Round for Twitter?
According to Kara Swisher, Twitter is close to raising another $150-million in venture capital. It raises a few questions: 1. What happened to the last large venture capital round that Twitter raised? Was it all spent on a new, spiffy office and a hiring binge? 2. What’s Twitter going to do with $150-million? Buy a [...]
Twitter: Give Us TwitterSearch.com!
Not satisfied with search.twitter.com, Twitter wants to take control of twittersearch.com, which is currently parked by someone who has sought to protect their identify. In a filing to ICANN, Twitter has demanded the name, even though it doesn’t own the name “Twitter”. If Twitter wants twittersearch.com, how long before it wants searchtwitter.com? It raises a [...]
Should Twitter Allow Anonymous Accounts?