Articles about Twitter – Page 19 of 21

Twitter opens doors on new Seattle engineering office

We’ve certainly been intrigued with all of the Silicon Valley tech giants that have opened offices in the Seattle area… Read More

Chart: Who is using Twitter?

Do you use Twitter on a daily basis? If so, you are one of eight percent of Americans who do… Read More

Summify to shut down June 22 amid Twitter integration

I’ve been a huge fan of Summify since its launch last year, but the the online news and information aggregation… Read More

Q&A: Twitter’s Del Harvey on trust, safety, bullets and kittens

Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account… Read More

Free Klout trips a success, says Seattle tourism bureau

What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in… Read More

Paul Allen gets into Twitter spat with sports columnist

Twitter is such an equalizing force. How else can the billionaire owner of a struggling NBA franchise make his feelings… Read More

Reality Check: Twitter’s patent pledge not what it seems

On Twitter’s corporate blog yesterday, the company’s engineering infrastructure VP Adam Messinger wrote that Twitter intends to implement an “Innovator’s Patent Agreement,”… Read More

Streamd.in lets you see what’s shaking nearby on Twitter

The mobile app Highlight was one of the big hits of the SXSW conference, allowing conference attendees to use the… Read More

The top Tweeters in baseball

There’s perhaps no American pastime filled with as many data geeks and stat hounds as baseball, a sport where every… Read More

Microsoft’s Skype pokes at Facebook, Twitter in ad campaign

Skype partners with Facebook on video calling, and Skype’s parent company, Microsoft, is a minority owner of Facebook. But all’s fair… Read More

Fiddling with user timelines: A wrong turn for Twitter?

As social web services proliferate, I’m finding Twitter, my first love, the only one that’s truly become a natural feature… Read More

Paul Allen narrates as James Cameron navigates to the depths of the ocean floor

I never took Paul Allen — the billionaire software tycoon — for a citizen journalist. But that’s what the Microsoft… Read More

In defense of Miss Seattle: The importance of free expression on Twitter

OK. That’s it. It’s time this social media “lesson” got a review. On March 3, former Miss Phoenix Jean-Sun Hannah… Read More

Apple promises contact consent, but what about time limits?

Do we still put too much blind faith in big tech companies to do right by our personal information? That’s… Read More

Are you Kinning me? Microsoft beats trademark lawsuit over Kinect

Guest Commentary: Microsoft makes the Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360, and for a while tried out a mobile phone… Read More

Gates Foundation’s Tweets reveal passive, insular global health community

Guest Post: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hosting a number of events today in anticipation of the opening… Read More

Howard Schultz: How Twitter and Facebook are saving Starbucks money

Starbucks just turned in a record quarter, posting $3.4 billion in revenue and the highest quarterly earnings in the company’s… Read More

Wavii moves toward reality with goal of helping people manage information overload

Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to… Read More

Ex-Microsoft interns sell Summify to Twitter: Popular news service will shut down

Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat, the two Romanian Web developers who founded Summify instead of taking jobs at Facebook and… Read More

Weight loss schemers hack ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Modern Cuisine Twitter account

Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular… Read More

Say, what? Seattle M&A expert says Microsoft should buy Barnes & Noble

We’ve heard a lot of wild M&A chatter to start off the new year, including Amazon.com’s reported interest in RIM. But… Read More

Poll: What do you think of Twitter’s new look?

We’re pretty heavy Twitter users around the GeekWire offices, so when the company rolled out a new redesign yesterday we… Read More

You’re selling yourself, and that’s OK: Welcome to the entrepreneurial generation

Call Millennials innovators. Publishers. Mobilizers. Socialites. Just don’t call us salesmen. That’s one way to read last week’s mixed reaction… Read More

Bring back Kozmo; the ‘lost’ Steve Ballmer interview … and other quotes of the week

The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Dear Internet, Could you hurry up a… Read More

Google+ opens to businesses, with link to Google search

Google today announced the long-awaited debut of pages for businesses on Google+, looking to boost the functionality of its fledgling… Read More

Why we’re not using Google+ to reach consumers, so far

Guest commentary: Since Google+ launched in June of this year, two questions have been on everyone’s mind in the digital… Read More

Video: Melinda Gates on social media and tweeting with Bill

Today at the Malaria Summit in downtown Seattle, Melinda Gates met with a group of bloggers to talk about the… Read More

Twitter handles 250M Tweets a day, targets everyone on planet

Twitter’s growth over the past few years has been nothing short of staggering. And now we’re getting a closer look… Read More

Heads up: We’re @geekwire now

One of the minor challenges we encountered when we started GeekWire was that the Twitter handle @geekwire wasn’t available. (It… Read More

Does Facebook’s new ‘subscribe’ button go too far?

Here’s a surprise. Facebook is copying Twitter. Again. But this time, they might be going too far — for their… Read More