Almost four months after acquiring social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs, Twitter has premiered Twitter TV Ad Targeting.

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During an Internet Week presentation, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo introduced Twitter Amplify, a new video content promotion tool that capitalizes on existent Twitter video partnerships with brands like the NBA, ESPN, and Fox.

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In the past few months, Twitter has introduced a range of new Twitter cards to enhance its in-stream experience.

As images have taken center stage on social networks, Twitter has rolled out app cards, product cards and gallery cards to its users.

This week, Twitter took things one step further with the introduction of Lead Generation Cards.

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How do you manage your online interactions right now? If you’re like me, the answer is probably “not very well.” I create tags in emails and reminders and lists and all that – or I favorite tweets and sometimes email tweets to myself so folks don’t get lost in the chaos that is Twitter.

But along the way, you’ll likely realize (to your horror) that you’ve let various opportunities slip by – and all because “social” isn’t easily organized. Till now.

We’re excited to tell you about a service, a social client relationship management (CRM) that will organize all of your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Google+ contacts in ways you’ve only imagined. This social CRM also integrates with your favorite apps like Hootsuite and Evernote (to name my two favs).

And better still? It just released new features – insights, signals and reminders – that will make this site the hub of your digital marketing efforts.

AND, they have a special offer for AllTwitter readers (only the fastest will snag it though, so read this quick!).

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Have you signed up for Twitter and that’s about as far as you got?

Or maybe you’re using it, but not seeing results and just doing know where to start?

If you join us for the AllTwitter Marketing Conference next month, you’ll not only learn where to start – you’ll leave a pro (especially if you pay close attention during the panel I’m moderating).

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Today we give thanks for the Twitter co-founders penchant for interesting names. We have, of course, the Obvious Corp (which is anything but) and Square (that cool “pay using my smartphone” device), the new blogging platform Medium – and now, bestest of all – Jelly.

Beyond wondering if they’ve employed someone solely to come up with these names, this latest mushy gushy creation of Biz Stone that has left people wondering: “What the Jelly?”

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Which social media sites are small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using for business?

Facebook (as usual) leads the way, with 19 percent of SMEs favouring this platform, ahead of LinkedIn (14 percent), blogs (13 percent) and Twitter, with the latter being used by just 4 percent of these firms.

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Thanks to a new SEC ruling, Twitter will shortly be making its arrival on Wall Street, via Bloomberg, and Marketwired reached out to the investment community to gauge their reaction.

The bottom line? Investors under 40 mostly welcomed the news, with 70 percent believing the SEC ruling is beneficial to investors, and 60 percent say that they’re already actively using social media for investment research. More than half (53 percent) believe information provided by social media is “very credible”, and 80 percent believe that more companies will disclose information via social media.

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On the heels of the dissolution of Twitter subsidiary TweetDeck, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has vacated his position as a U.K. director of Twitter.

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Twitter announced yesterday afternoon that it has acquired a little-known scalable computing startup called Ubalo.

Founded in 2011, Palo Alto-based Ubalo simplifies large-scale computing, enabling its users to write just the code they need for analysis or processing without worrying about the complexities of integration and scaling.

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