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A Few New Reasons to Reunite With Twitter.com

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on December 13, 2011 at 4:36 pm PT

Twitter.com has revamped its site to make it more approachable and easier to use, particularly for tweeting newbies.

Tech Is Glamour-ous: Mag Hosts Panel on Women in Tech (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 13, 2011 at 9:03 am PT

What’s the state of women in tech? Click in to find out.

Why Betaworks Broke Up the Band

Peter Kafka in Media on September 15, 2011 at 7:08 pm PT

Andy Weissman jumps from the incubator/holding company to become a full-time investor at Union Square Ventures. That wasn’t the plan a few months ago.

Burp! Bitly Swallows Twitterfeed.

Peter Kafka in Social on August 9, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

This is the opposite of a megadeal, but still worth noting.

Fox News’s Twitter Triggers: Crime, Murder, Casey Anthony

Peter Kafka in Media on August 2, 2011 at 7:04 am PT

Fox News Twitter followers click on links about scary stuff. New York Times followers pay attention to basketball. And Economist readers are interested in yogurt.

How Much Traffic Does Twitter Really Drive?

Liz Gannes in Social on July 14, 2011 at 11:38 am PT

Twitter drives four times as much traffic as you think it does, say awe.sm co-founder Jonathan Strauss and his investor Mark Suster in a minor media assault today.

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Twitter Adds Back Another Feature: Automated URL Shortening

Liz Gannes in Social on June 7, 2011 at 4:39 pm PT

Twitter today introduced its own automatic link shortening for users of its Web site. Tweeted URLs will show up with ellipses so users know what Web site they link to. If I’m not mistaken, this is the second old feature the company has reintroduced lately, the last being an option to view Twitter from the perspective of another user’s account. In its early days, Twitter used to automatically shorten links using TinyURL, then Bit.ly, before releasing its redesigned #newtwitter Web site without built-in link shortening.

Bitly Gets a New Boss

Peter Kafka in Media on May 16, 2011 at 6:23 am PT

Bitly has raised $14 million in a few years, and shrinks more than 8 billion Web addresses a month, but has never had a full-time CEO. Now technology vet Peter Stern gets the gig.

Jon Stewart Thinks Newt Gingrich Should Stay Off Twitter

Peter Kafka in Media on May 13, 2011 at 6:19 am PT

Apparently you have to be “cool” to be on the Internet. Who knew?

Bit.ly URL Shortener Raises $10 Million

Peter Kafka in Media on October 7, 2010 at 1:24 pm PT

Bit.ly, the start-up you’ve probably used recently to send someone a shorter version of a Web address, has raised another round of funding. The service, spun out of the Betaworks incubator, says that the RRE VC fund led the round, and that partner Eric Wiesen will join the company’s board.

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