”Twitter” News

The 10 most influential D.C. Twitterers

When you talk about Twitter , you might as well be talking about the Snuggie: People around you swear that it’s actually useful, but you can’t help thinking it silly and declaring, “I just don’t get what all the buzz is
02 26 2009 8:41AM (...more)

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?
06 5 2009 4:07PM (...more)

What's It All About, Twitter?

Some people search for the meaning of life. Me? I've been searching for the meaning of the microblogging platform and Web 2.0 darling 06 19 2008 1:52PM (...more)

Reports Indicate Google Won't Buy Booming Twitter

Is Google going to buy Twitter , or not? That's what social networkers are tweeting, commenting and otherwise buzzing about this
04 4 2009 12:41PM (...more)

Twitter Appears To Have Declined Facebook Acquisition

A social-media giant that has been wooed by the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft is now looking at an emerging social-networking play. Facebook
12 7 2008 3:49AM (...more)

'Twitters' beat media in reporting China earthquake

SAN FRANCISCO, (AFP) - The world had real-time news about China 's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what was being touted Tuesday as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.
05 30 2008 8:30PM (...more)

Google in talks to buy Twitter: report

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently dismissed Twitter as a "poor man's email" and
04 4 2009 11:13AM (...more)

Google in talks to buy Twitter

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently dismissed Twitter as a "poor man's email" and
04 4 2009 11:12AM (...more)

Acts twitter at SXSW, in interviews and on stage

AUSTIN, Texas – It wasn't just the legions of concertgoers wandering the streets who were twittering at South By Southwest . Many of the acts were posting tweets throughout the music conference and festival, sometimes even
03 23 2009 12:01PM (...more)

Is Twitter the news outlet for the 21st century?

NEW YORK – Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in 07 4 2009 5:41PM (...more)