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Let the Good Times – and Money – Flow for Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: April 13, 2010
Four years and about 60 million users later, Twitter is finally ready to unveil its business model – something that will take a project gone wild and transform it into a business. According to the New York Times, Twitter will unveil an advertising platform today, Promoted Tweets, that will see ads appear when a search in [...]
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The Tao of Biz and Ev

By Mark Evans | Published: November 24, 2009
One of the more fascinating things about Twitter is how every word spoken by co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams is scrutinized, explored and reported/blogged on so enthusiastically. If Stone or Williams speak at a conference, the media/blogger attention is red-hot in its intensity. Stone, for example, spoke yesterday at an event at Oxford University. The [...]
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What’s Happening? Huh?

By Mark Evans | Published: November 19, 2009
The oh-so-mysterious Twitter threw everyone a strange curveball tonight with some big news: It’s changing it’s tagline from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” In a blog post, Biz Stone said: Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right [...]
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RIP: Twitter’s Suggested Users

By Mark Evans | Published: November 18, 2009
It took longer than it should have but Twitter has finally decided to kill the suggested user list – the one that automatically added 20 high-profile people to follow for all new Twitter users. The list was sophomoric because it was all the cool people culled from a master list of about 500 celebrities, athletes and [...]
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Twitter Quote of the Day

By Mark Evans | Published: September 23, 2009
“We wanted to show people that we’re here to stay and here we are making money.” - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone at the 140: Twitter Conference in Los Angeles. That said, Stone also proclaimed Twitter does not plan to put ads on the service this year, which could lead one to believe ads could be coming next [...]
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