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Tweetbot is the latest Twitter app for the iPhone and one that’s been getting some buzz since its debut this week. Available from Tapbots, Tweetbot gives iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users yet another alternative to Twitter’s official mobile app and other Twitter mobile clients. And though it’ll cost you $1.99, Tweetbot offers a nicely [...]

The Twitter homepage appears on a screen in Washington on September 2010. Twitter on Friday said it cut celebrity-tracking service JustSpotted off from a pipeline of “tweets” that could be tapped to map the whereabouts of stars. Twitter on Friday said it cut celebrity-tracking service JustSpotted off from a pipeline of “tweets” that could be [...]

The real-time User Streams version of TweetDeck is now available to the public, one month after Twitter announced a developer preview of its User Streams API, opening up third-party Twitter applications to display tweets in real time. That API gives desktop apps like TweetDeck the ability to display tweets virtually as soon as they are [...]

(AP) — South Korea has blocked North Korea’s new Twitter account from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contain “illegal information” under the country’s security laws, officials said Thursday. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Twitter warned users that a failed upgrade Monday night has left the site unusable for many. The problem began past 8 p.m. PDT, the company said, and might last for hours. “Our infrastructure and operations engineers are currently working to resolve this. The site could be down until approximately 3 a.m. PDT,” company spokeswoman Carolyn [...]

(AP) — Twitter plans to start using its own Web link shortener on addresses that users include in tweets. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Since quoting Twitter posts is all the rage in journalism these days, Twitter’s launching an official way to do it. According to its Twitter Media blog, on Tuesday, the company will either unveil, launch, or roll out (they’re being awfully coy about it) a way to embed tweets on third-party sites with a bit of [...]

If you’re the type of crazy that follows just about anyone on Twitter, your stream is likely filled with all manner of languages. A very easy solution is to unfollow these folks. But in the spirit of making things work, you can also just download new Firefox extension Twanslate. Just like the translate functionality in [...]

The front facade of the US Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The US Library of Congress said Wednesday it plans to digitally archive all of the billions of messages known as “tweets” sent on Twitter since its launch four years ago. The US Library of Congress said Wednesday it plans to digitally archive all [...]

Handmark brings a satisfying Twitter environment to the Android operating system with its new TweetCaster Pro application. Now available in the Android Market and on Handmark’s site for $4.99, TweetCaster Pro offers everything you’d expect from Twitter in a user-friendly design. We have just a couple of suggestions to make it better, though we think [...]