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Twitter’s Response to The Internet’s Response

Twitter has updated yesterday’s post in order to clarify their new policy on filtering tweets:

Since yesterday’s post, we’ve gotten a number of questions that we’d like to broadly address with this update.

In short, we believe the new, more granular approach to withheld content is a good thing for freedom of expression, transparency, accountability— and for our users. Besides allowing us to keep Tweets available in more places, it also allows users to see whether we are living up to our freedom of expression ideal.

Q: Do you filter out certain Tweets before they appear on Twitter?
A: No. Our users now send a billion Tweets every four days—filtering is neither desirable nor realistic. With this new feature, we are going to be reactive only: that is, we will withhold specific content only when required to do so in response to what we believe to be a valid and applicable legal request.

As we do today, we will evaluate each request before taking any action. Any content we do withhold in response to such a request is clearly identified to users in that country as being withheld. And we are now able to make that content available to users in the rest of the world.

Q: What will people see if content is withheld?
A: If people are located in a country where a Tweet or account has been withheld and they try to view it, they will see a alert box that says “Tweet withheld” or “@Username withheld” in place of the affected Tweet or account.

Twitter is Nearing 500 Million Accounts

Twitter Will Reach 500 Million Members on February 25

The Wall has reported that Twitter is fast approaching its 500 millionth account. According to a study by third party Twitter app Twopcharts, Twitter will hit the landmark figure by this coming February, predicting it down to the date, on the 25th.

According to Twopchart, there are currently 465 million Twitter accounts, showing a 65% increase since May, when it estimated the figure at 300 million.

Twopchart’s latest figures, and countdown chart, show Twitter growing at a rate of around 11 accounts per second.

Swabr

Swabr, a new Enterprise Microblogging Company from Germany has launched its beta service:

swabr is a free, easy & intuitive enterprise microblogging service for companies and organizations.

swabr, which stands for the German term of ”black board 2.0”, is an enterprise microblogging service for companies and organizations. swabr targets the growing need of companies and organizations for real-time communication. We offer every team or working group own microblogging networks to collaborate more faster than by email.

Most competitors wants to implement a bunch of functions which leads to an enterprise market with multi-complex systems. swabr is easy and intuitive to use. We are different! swabr concentrates on the single functionality for a simple and fast way to communicate by offering an enterprise microblogging service which is easy & intuitive to use.

Swabr.com

Jive Gains 25% on First Day of Trading

Jive Software made its debut today on NASDAQ, gaining 25% on its first day:

The shares climbed to $15.05 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, a day after the Palo Alto, California-based company priced its stock at a higher-than-expected level in an initial public offering. Jive sold 13.4 million shares at $12 apiece, topping an earlier proposal to offer 11.7 million for $8 to $10 each.

Up Next: Zynga

Mobile Ads are Coming to Facebook

It appears that the days of the ad-free Facebook mobile app are numbered:

Facebook Inc. plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

An idea being considered is putting Facebook’s Sponsored Stories ads, which feature friends’ interactions with brands, within the mobile News Feed, said the people, who declined to be identified because the plans aren’t public. The News Feed lets users view status updates, photos and other content.

BusinessWeek: Facebook Is Said to Ready First Foray Into Mobile Ads Next Year

StockTwits Launches “Stocktwits Direct” for Public Companies

We are pleased to announce the launch of StockTwits Direct, a first of its kind offering for investor communications.

StockTwits Direct enables public companies to post news and information directly to a module on their main Yahoo! Finance Quote page.

This makes it easy for companies to distribute the information they want in a manner of seconds and reach Yahoo! Finance’s 40 million unique monthly visitors.

Stocktwits: Announcing the Launch of StockTwits Direct for Investor Communications

Twitter: “Let’s Fly”

A new version of Twitter is launching today:

Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We’ve simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You’ll see this new design both on Twitter.com and mobile phones, so that you’ll have a familiar experience any time, anywhere. We’ve also updated TweetDeck to be consistent with this new version.

Visit fly.twitter.com for more info.

Rest in Peace, Steve

Socialcast Launches ‘Strides’

From Silicon Angle:

Microblogging received a lot of criticism in its early days as one-dimensional. Its value quickly caught on as new features were added by companies such as Yammer, Tibco Tibbr, Qontext and a host of others.

Now comes the next phase of microblogging. And that’s the full integration into workflows. The latest incarnation comes from Socialcast, led by Tim Young, who now serves as vice president of social enterprise for VMware, which acquired the startup earlier this year.

The new service is called Strides and it combines microblogging with task management. That’s a compelling combination.  Applications ride on waves of data that are so intense now that conventional methods for consumption can not keep pace. Email is still the norm for communication but it is cumbersome and takes people out of a critical flow. That’s especially true for developers and engineers whose best work comes when they can work in a fluid manner, immersed in their code.

Silicon Angle: The Next Phase of Microblogging

Tumblr Is Nearing 10 Billion Posts

26,000 posts added to Tumblr per second:

Pingdom even noted that at the said pace, it is expected that the number of posts on Tumblr would cross 20 billion in nine months. However, it would not be a surprise if it gets to the 20 billion mark way before the said time frame. It was even noted that it can be a worry for Tumblr to get these new posts into their system, but a bigger challenge would be to serve all the content to readers. Again handling the interactions which are created by these posts could be a headache.

eBrandz – Tumblr Nearing 10 Billion Posts

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