My Twitter Class of ’08

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Following a Twitter stream is like being in a high school classroom. You get the bullies, the geeks, the egomaniac, the comedian, the shy guy, the bitch, the idiot, the "sweetheart" couple, the know-all, the old guy etc. They’re all there…

Twitter Now Getting More Traffic Than MySpace
Twitter ’s number of monthly unique visitors finally surpassed that of MySpace in August. Though it ranked third among social networking sites, Twitter ranked #50 in the list of top 50 properties overall. The numbers were crunched by the marketing…
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Twitter Goes Live with Real-Time Streaming API
Twitter has ended beta testing of the User Streams and portion of its Twitter Streaming API and brought it into regular production. While we’ve seen some clients take advantage of the User Streams, such as TweetDeck , the real-time Web is about to get a lot more real-time. Sponsor Previously, third-party Twitter clients had a limited number of times they could request updates from Twitter, which …
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Twitter Swoops Past MySpace, Kills @Earlybird Deals
News of Twitter surpassing MySpace in traffic today has brought another milestone for the microblogging site, landing them at 96 million unique visitors last month. This makes them the third most trafficked social networking site on the Internet, next to Facebook (598 million uniques) and Windows Live Profile (140 million uniques). As a social […] Twitter Swoops Past MySpace, Kills @Earlybird …
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