After 3 Years Twitter is Now Profitable Thanks to Bing and Google

Ricardo Trejo Dec 23, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Industry News, Internet, Twitter

Business Week is reporting that they believe micro-blogging giant, Twitter, may finally post its first profitable year for 2009 after striking deals with Microsoft and Google for "real time results" on their search engines. This'll gives the company the first sight of incoming "green" in the 3 years its existed; without paid services, merchandise, or even ads, Twitter has been floating on by with the help of nothing but venture capitalists' investments - which is estimated to be somewhere near $50 million total.

With revenue finally trickling its way in, could we finally see some new additions make their way onto the service? We've heard of the paid "premium" account idea, but we've yet to hear anything solid about it since then. People who find Twitter and stay on it love its simplicity and concept, but I'd stake that they wouldn't mind a few new features to add to the experience.

[BusinessWeek]

Twitter Hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army" - working again

Brandon Davenport Dec 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Hacks, Internet, News, Twitter, Websites, breaking

Today, one of the biggest take-downs in social media history, took place. The target? None other than little Twitter, completely innocent and un-prepared. A group called the "Iranian Cyber Army" successfully hacked twitter down to nothing but an ugly homepage and evil message:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?

WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)

Take Care.

Not only was the Twitter homepage down, but status.twitter.com, and other parts of the service remained down as well. We reccomend that you change your passwords just to be safe. -- if this is the new trend in terrorism, where no-one gets hurt, nobody dies, and it can be fixed, I would rather this than anything else.

[via TechCrunch]

Chris Brown says "Goodbye" to Twitter

Ricardo Trejo Dec 16, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Twitter

Wal-Mart curiously doesn't stock the man's album, so Chris Brown logs into his Twitter and goes off about it. Fans reply and sound off about their own experiences with local stores selling, or not selling, his latest album "Graffiti". All of this coming after his weekend "tirade" - CNN and MSNBC both used the word - on Twitter, saying stuff like:

“im tired of this s***. major stores r blackballing my cd. not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. what the f*** do i gotta do...”

With no warning, Chris decided to call it quits on the Twitter front earlier this week. Reminds me a bit of Miley Cyrus' send off. No specific reason was given for the shut down of the famous woman beater's twitter account, but he did leave one final tweet:

"I WANNA THANK MY FANS FOR ALL THE SUPPORT. I LOVE YALL. GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

On a side note, I still listen to "Forever" on repeat sometimes. Hey, it's a guilty pleasure The Office started!

[CNN, MSNBC]