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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.

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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 Penner [...]

(AP) — Twitter plans to start using its own Web link shortener on addresses that users include in tweets.

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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 Brizzly, [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]

(AP) — Yahoo has something new to yodel about: tweets.

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Twitter has added a new feature that can make the service more relevant. In the right-hand navigation bar, under “Trending,” you can now select a geographic region to see what’s hot on Twitter in one of a few cities.

Only 15 U.S. cities and five non-U.S. countries are on the locality list, although it’s very [...]