Thursday, September 06, 2007

Twitter Updates: Exploring Twitter

Hello Twitter-ers,

We've launched a new area of our web site featuring different ways
you can interact with Twitter. Our friends at Stamen Design created
a particularly engaging application called Blocks--an interactive
way to discover people on Twitter. Special thanks to Motorola for
their sponsorship of this launch. There will be more cool stuff
here in the future so please come on by and check it out.

Explore Twitter: http://explore.twitter.com

Are You Mobile?

Sure, Timbaland and his MTV pals Twitter by txt but you don't have
to be a rock star to send and receive Twitter updates on the fly.
If you normally use Twitter over the web, why not switch things
up? Activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter so you can send
and receive updates anytime, anywhere.

Activate your phone: http://twitter.com/devices

Vegas, Baby!

Twitter will be in Las Vegas hobnobbing with some of your favorite
musicians and artists at the Video Music Awards starting tomorrow
and going all weekend. The MTV folks made arrangements to have a
bunch of cool artists Twittering away. If you want to follow these
artists as they party in Vegas, just text FOLLOW VMA to 40404.
Or visit the twitter.com/vma profile.

MTV VMAs: http://twitter.com/vma

What Happened This Morning?

We were performing optimizations to make Twitter faster and more
reliable and it took longer than expected. We scheduled some
downtime for the wee hours of the morning but the work spilled over
into normal human daytime. Hopefully, this didn't put too much of
a crimp in your Twittering style. The good news is we got the work
done and Twitter is better for it.

Search Twitter

Recently, we've launched search so you can find more folks to
follow or even discover people you didn't know were on Twitter. We
also built an easy way to find out who from your Gmail Address book
is already on Twitter. To use either of these new features, click
the "Find & Invite" link at the top of of the Twitter web site.

Find & Invite: http://twitter.com/invitations

Other Cool Stuff

There's a geeky new show premiering later this month on NBC and
the character Twitters: http://twitter.com/chuckbartowski

Reactee has created an easy way to make your own t-shirts
customized with your Twitter username: http://twitter.reactee.com

71Miles is using Twitter to send exclusive, limited discounts to
classy resorts and spas in California: http://twitter.com/71miles

Okay, that's all for now. Gotta get back to work.

Happy Twittering,
Biz Stone and the Twitter Team
http://twitter.com/biz

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