Die Twitter-IPO-Geschichten gehen los.

Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo erscheint mir ein bisschen wie ein Douchebag: ““I don’t mean to be flippant, but there’s a little bit of ‘I didn’t get my homework done because Twitter changed their API,’” he said.”

Nicht alles davon überzeugt.

“Twitter will soon remove support for third-party image hosts, such as Twitpic and yfrog, from its official apps, according to a person who was briefed on the company’s plans. The changes will be coming fairly soon — likely in the next updates to each client.”

“The SuperFav helps you to fav even better using Flattr!”

Es kam wie so vieles von den Nutzern. (via daring fireball)

Als frühe Alpha. Bevor Twitter keine neuen Clients mehr erlaubt?

“In an interview with Los Angeles Times staff members on Tuesday, Costolo reiterated that the company has no reason to go public.” I call bullshit.

“Wilson says Twitter’s founders and board are now deadset on it staying independent” Börsengang also irgendwann.

super: “As Twitter notes, this is “a significant departure” from how just about every other company handles patent assignments. Along those lines, it’s planning to evangelize this idea to other tech firms as well — and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a bunch of others jump on board. The basic idea makes a lot of sense. Twitter has also posted the full agreement to Github and put it under a Creative Commons license. The method by which this works is pretty creative. Basically, if the actual patent holder tries to use the patent offensively without first obtaining the permission of the inventor, the agreement allows the inventor to issue a license to the entity being sued”

Speichert gelöschte Tweets von Politikern. Ye shall not forget.

“The service has just under four million accounts in this country of 81 million people. Compare that with the UK (population: 62 million), which has around 24 million accounts. German takeup grew relatively slowly over 2011, and user engagement is low.”