@jamievaron started this site - Twitter Should Hire Me - back on Monday 3/9/2009. In her own words she says: This site was started on March 9, 2009 while trying to decide between throwing myself in front of Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, or Biz Stone’s respective vehicles OR creating a site in the ho...

wwwade, IT, Web Wade Roush wrote: If you feel it’s time to share something online but can’t think of anything to say, it might be a sign that you’re dull. If you try too hard to craft a bon mot for your blog or some table talk for your Twitter stream, in other words, you might just...

Fred Wilson has a revisionist outlook on Facebook opening up their feeds, mainly to protect his investment in Twitter.  I agree that AIM started all this, but it should be noted that Twitter just finished negotiating to be purchased by Facebook - so one has to ask yourself “why didn’t t...

TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is close to securing another funding round which should value Ev’s company at a quarter of a billion dollars. No matter the economic climate, or any lingering web bubble, investors do not put down the cash unless they see some concrete plans. Now those plans co...

A photo of the Twitter offices when we visited it in September 2007. Evan Williams co-founder and CEO of Twitter spoke at a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday and generated a few pretty juicy quotes. Check it out: On Revenue: “We will make money, and I can’t say exactly ...

Image via Wikipedia I find this very interesting since I use Zemanta and Glue !  Mr  Wilson and his group are helping promote what I call Apps for The Unwashed !  People Like me who at 72 years old don’t have time to get a degree from Cooper Union to manage a blog !  For the Folks In Silic...

[Updated with new details about deal, including who worked on it and info on a cash component.] About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Whi...

Below is Part One of my Table of Contents (TOC) for Twitterville. It is the road map that I will follow as I write the book. It is not complete, I need more content to reach the 65,000-70,000 words I'm shooting for. That's where you folks come in. Yesterday, I received 12 leads for new stories, some...

ICANN opened up the new top-level domain .me today, which caught Twitter cofounder Evan Williams unawares: Wonder who bought twitter.me. We were not on the ball. If the guy who bought Twitter.me doesn't get some cash from the deal, Twitter's lawyers will, as they pursue a costly, bureaucratic tradem...

Twitter has bought Summize, a search engine which indexes Twitter messages. It's hard to imagine Summize going anywhere else. But this deal is not about "strategic fit" or any such nonsense. No, it's about how the cleverly lazy founders of Twitter have found a way around the biggest management heada...