In a partnership that actually makes sense Linkedin will allow status updates to be pushed out to your Twitter account and/or pull your tweets into your professional profile. You will have privacy and broadcast options obviously as the two services differ a bit in target audience. Linkedin remains the professional service of choice and twitter [...]

Twitter the social messaging service is close to raising a $100 million from as many as seven investors. The Wall Street Journal reported today with people familiar with the matter. Private equity firm Insight Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and mutual fund T. Rowe Price (if you can believe it). The twitter project [...]

Twitscoop remains a supercool tool for watching realtime buzz trends in the Twitter community. Many sites are focusing on capturing twitter realtime buzz, (like the earthquake today). However, Twitscoop has a live-action tag cloud that moves in realtime. You can actually watch as a word is trending, pretty wild stuff with amazing implications of where [...]

Twitter continues to be Silicon Valley’s microblogging platform of choice. As Twitter turns 3 years old (a teenager in Internet years) a very mature ecosystem is emerging and is becoming more of a disruptive technology rather than a novel add-on widget for traditional blogging sites and social networks.
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