Twitter and Linkedin partner

November 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment



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 is more casual. As the lines continue to blurr between social media and services this may chance.

At least we have the option for now to promote yourself or business with a filter.

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Twitter project $100 million dollar deal

September 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment



twitter 100 millionTwitter 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 break out to date is as follows:

Year Type Amount

07/2007 - Series A - $5 Million

Investors: Charles River Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Naval Ravikant, Ron Conway


05/2008 – Series B - $15 Million

Investors: Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage

02/2009 - Series C - $35 Million

Investors: Benchmark, Institutional Venture Partners

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Twitscoop realtime buzz cloud on Twitter

March 31, 2009 By 1 Comment


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 aggregation is going.

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Twitter hype continues to soar

March 25, 2009 By 2 Comments


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.

A tell tale sign you’re dealing with a heavy weight startup contender is when FM throws a right hook with @exectweets and rumors swirl of a Facebook killer or Google acquisition. As history has taught us before, Twitter will continue to morph into the most simple and effective form before the content can be monetized and the dollars roll in. It’s never easy to predict but always fun to watch.

Check out the usual suspects for more deets.
VentureBeat
Mashable
Battelle

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