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Twitter's Hockey Stick Moment
Source: TechCrunch

October was a good month for Twitter. All those election Tweets brought a 25 percent increase in U.S. visitors from the month before, to 1.45 million unique visitors, according to comScore. (Worldwide, the number was 5.6 million in September).

Building a Better Twitter
Source: Business Week

In March, engineers at the music software startup Fuzz Artists began designing a tool that would help independent musicians distribute their songs virally, online.

Are Employees Twittering Away Productivity?
Source: Fast Company

As the enterprise microsharing market grows all in, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people aren't simply wasting time.

Terrorist 'tweets'? US Army warns of Twitter dangers
Source: breitbart.com

A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.

On Twitter, architecture, and lying in the grass
Source: Ars Technica

Twitter is going through some growing pains.

WeColumn: Your column everywhere and read by everyone
Source: TechCrunch

WeColumn falls in between a regular blog and a micro-blog. You write a paragraph or two about a specific topic that you think others may be interested in and then other blogs or sites can embed the text as a widget on their own sites.

Twitter.com CEO: With open source, it's all about the people
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Jack Dorsey wants to change the way people communicate on the Internet. Are you used to updating your blog once every 24 hours? If Dorsey has his way, you'll soon be thinking about lots of tiny blog posts from wherever you are, whenever you want.

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