New Features

Twitter wants to be more relevant to you. And in order to do so, they’ve started providing users with tailored suggestions of who to follow, rather than just a list of some of the most popular account.

Since not everyone loves Justin Bieber, this move should make searching for new, relevant accounts to follow a more pleasant experience for the average user, and Twitter’s hoping it increases the number of new users who stick around past the signup process.
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Following Yahoo and AOL’s lead (and Google’s quasi-lead), Twitter confirmed a Federal Trade Commission announcement that it will honor Do Not Track notifications. In doing so, Twitter has taken a big step toward helping users take control of what information is shared about them – and about their activity – online.
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Want to search for Justin Bieber on Twitter but can’t remember if the “i” comes before the “e” in Bieber? Or searching for the ever popular (and always entertaining) Twitter account of Alec Baldwin and want to find some of his costars from 30 Rock as well?

Now that info is ready and waiting – all you need to do is watch for and click the handy links!
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Twitter announced today that it has “improved personalization algorithms and real-time indexing.” What does this mean? Twitter is making search more personalized (just like Google).
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Tweetdeck released some new features today and there’s one item that is particularly interesting. If you’re hearing spy music play in your mind, then the image accompanying this post has done its job.
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Twitter is taking a keen interest in the 1.1 billion potential tweeters living in India. The company has recently expanded its local trending topic city list to include five additional Indian cities, shortly after making Twitter.com available in Hindi.
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There are some changes coming to Twitter. According to multiple unnamed sources, the company is gearing up to add new features to brand pages, including e-commerce, contests and sweepstakes.
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As we reported in January, Twitter’s Translation Center has been hard at work porting right-to-left languages to the platform, and over on the official blog they’ve now announced that Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu are now available on the network.

This brings the total number of languages supported on Twitter.com to an impressive 28.

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Mobile Twitter users, your time has come: you will soon start to see ads in your apps.

Expanding its advertising – called Promoted Products – into its mobile apps is yet another way that Twitter is looking to ramp up its revenue-generating products.
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Twitter is offering access to archived tweets as far back as January 2010 through its partner Datasift. However, the access isn’t cheap: it starts at $1,000 per month to sift through the millions of tweets posted to Twitter every day.
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