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Twitter Stops SMS To UK, Carrier Costs Too High - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 14 Aug 2008 10:00 AM PST

Twitter says it’s stopped sending out tweets via SMS in the UK, claiming the popularity of the service has made the cost too prohibitive (but I’m still getting messages). Without…

Is Twitter On the Cusp Of A Turnaround? Maybe Or Maybe Not… - 3 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 21 Jul 2008 12:10 PM PST

For awhile, there was nothing Twitter could do right. Frequent crashes would prompt a slew of angry bloggers to rant about the service in lengthy posts that criticized the company…

Twitter Buys Micro-Blogging Search Site Summize; Reportedly $15M Cash+Stock - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 15 Jul 2008 09:35 AM PST

Twitter announced today that it has officially acquired Summize, according to a post written by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. All five of Summize’s engineers will move to San Francisco and…

Twitter Officially Announces Its Funding; Jeff Bezos Participates - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:11 PM PST

Finally Twitter announces its funding. The popular microblogging/messaging service says its newest investors are Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos, via his Bezos Expeditions fund. That Spark was participating was already…

Update: Amazon Down, Takes Kindle Store Down With It - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 06 Jun 2008 10:35 AM PST

The internet is buckling a little bit, but at least it’s Friday… Not only is Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) down—going to it just gets you “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable”—but so is the…

Twitter Closing its $15 Million Round With Spark; Bit Less Than $100M Valuation - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 10:12 AM PST

As has been reported and rumored for the last month or so, the much-hyped mobile messaging and community service Twitter is in the process of closing its $15 million round,…

Twitter Gets $15 Million Second Round; $80 Million Valuation: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 22 May 2008 07:32 AM PST

Given the obsession with all things Twitter, this has been one of the most anticipated and hotly discussed fundings in a while: Om reports that after much jostling, the micro-blogging/messaging…