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Twitter increases the rate limit for third party clients

Of  late Twitter had many capacity problems including  a extensive downtime (Fail Whale) which lasted more than 4 hours last week and we may be seeing less of it the coming months as Twitter is planning to increase the rate limits  for api calls periodically..Starting today ,Twitter would be experimenting the capacity they could handle by moving the rate limits from default 200 api calls per user to about 350 API calls per user per…

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Twitter makes issuance of apps Oauth token very easy

Twitter just send out a mail to API developer group regarding this new portal for getting your access token for Apps,Instead of http://twitter.com/apps you should be able to access all your apps at http://dev.twittter.com/apps Hi Developers, In the interests of continuing to make the transition from basic authentication easier for the many different kinds of developers interfacing with the Twitter API, we introduced a new feature to the dev.twitter.comdeveloper portal today that will allow you to create an access token on your own…

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Twitter has acquired Tweetie

In the blog post Twitter’s CEO has announced it has bought Tweetie the popular iPhone application for Twitter.Tweetie is currently not free ($2.99) in App store and according to Williams it would be made free and renamed as Twitter for iPhone.As per the agreement reached with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter). The creator of Tweetie Loren would become a part of mobile team of the twitter and with this help they would be coming out with a…

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Rise of Twitter,Facebook hampers search growth in US

It seems  Search Industry’s happy days are yet to come..According to latest estimates from ComCast and other leading analytics firms the volume of search growth has slowed downfrom 10.4 percent in Februrary to 7.6 percent in March 2010.On year to year basis it has slowed down from 33.1 percent to 7.6 percent.So the big question here whether it’s a actual slow down and what are the reasons behind it?Whether it’s due to people or the…

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Twitter becomes another Facebook..has 60% of users outside US

In a blog post .Twitter’s lead Engineer Matt Sanford just posted an announcement in detail about Growth of international users..and where the traffic really comes from! Main Countries that use Twitter outside US are: a)India b)Latin American countries The post also says that twitter has partenered with Bharti Airtel in India and other carriers in different countries  to ensure that tweets being sent out as sms are charged at normal rates. So finally Twitter has come of the age and has…

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Twitter makes changes to streaming API

In the past, Twitter Streaming API filtered some low quaility users but now with this change ,Tweets from all non protected users would be also visible in the data got streaming API As promised in the Developer Roadmap,Twitter has right delivered it and now many would take advantage of it to get more tweets from the user.It remains to be seen whether this will do more good or bad as this may allow spam into Streaming  API…

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TweetPrivate – Do n’t share anything.Make Twitter your Personal Diary

TweetPrivate allows   to you store anything personal which can’t be shared in public or with your friends.   Nowdays users  are  forced to share anything personal be it   in  Twitter or  in Facebook. This might have lead  some people to lose  their jobs,  friends  and the relationships which were of immense value to them. Also the  disadvantages  of twitter  is you can’t write anything   personal  like “Spent $500 on my friend“   or anything against your boss.And…

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Twitter reaches 50 million Tweets???? Is is true?

According to Twitter,Now the users tweet out more than 50 million tweets per day .That’s very huge considering fact that Twitter has less than 100 million users As per the blog post on Twitter, It grew from about 5000 tweets per day in 2007 to 300000 tweets in 2008 and to 2.5 million tweets per day in 2009 and according to users tweet them more than 600 tweets per second But these stats pose some interesting…

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BuzzTweep.com – Update Google Buzz and Twitter at the same time

How to update your status at the same time on both Google Buzz and Twitter? BuzzTweep.com is the answer! BuzzTweep.com is the only way to keep your loyalty to Twitter intact without losing your newfound interest in Google Buzz. The site is basically for Twitter-Buzz-savvy users who don’t want to miss out on Buzz at the expense of Twitter or vice versa. BuzzTweep.com is a first-of-its-kind site to link between Twitter and Buzz. With Google yet…

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How Twitter helps Google to index faster

After seeing the title you may wonder what Twitter has to do with Google,Even though they have no tie up or mutual understanding between them..But in reality twitter is helping Google to index faster and sooner than other search engines.Gone are the days when a webmaster has to wait for Google to index a particular page now they can sit back and relax and allow Google to index the url by simply posting the link to…

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