Because Twitter's not just for twits ;)
Yes, according to Steveswrong on his Right to be Wrong blog.
I have to say, he has a point – we must be reading quicker, what with scanning all those 140 character messages; even more so if you’re using something such as Twhirl or Tweetdeck and have lots of people to follow.
We haven’t tested his claim that Twitter has helped him to read at 7 words per second, but we’re not going to doubt it!
You can follow Steve on Twitter.
Great post by TK Kirchner over on Blorge regarding Twitter shooting itself in the foot by limiting API requests.
Rather than rehash it, I’m posting the first paragraph here and you can click over to Blorge to read the rest.
Twitter has been trying to stay afloat in the mist of overwhelming traffic for quite some time now. They’ve disabled features, like reply tabs and instant messages, and even tried to reduce authenticated API requests, from unlimited to 70 to 20 and back up to 100. Now, they’re placing a limit on unauthenticated API requests, moving it down to 100 requests per hour per IP address. Developers are already complaining that such move is going to cause serious problems for their businesses and, in effect, cause problems for Twitter.
According to Twitturly, due to recent changes to Twitter’s API, Twitturly is slowly dying. There’s a plea on their status page for Twitturly users to contact the poeple that can help fix this, namely: @ev">Evan Williams, @biz">Biz Stone, @al3x">Alex Payne, @_evan">Evan Weaver.
The graphic below shows how the number of Tweets Twitturly processes in a day has dropped dramatically since the API changes.
For those of you that haven’t heard of Twitturly, here’s their blurb:
Twitt(url)y, or twitturly if you prefer, is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
Another way to post to multiple Twitter accounts at once- handy if you run a personal and a business account, or have various different accounts for clients, as we do.
Free to sign up, but web based, so has some limitations – it would be nice to see a desktop or browser plugin version. Until then I guess Twhirl is as good as it gets 
Application development (concept to code) was done by Alexander Barbara (Twitter: @ayb).
Logo design, app UI design and usability suggestions provided by Cory Schop. (Twitter: @coryschop)
According to this report at Paid Content it is:
Web measurer Hitwise says it’s the reverse – at least, proportionally. “Last week the site’s share of UK internet visits was 70 percent higher its share of visits in America,” said analyst Robin Goad. ”Twitter cannot yet be considered mainstream in the USA, but in the UK it’s getting there.” Its growth here – 485 percent so far this year and 631 percent year-on-year – is slower than the eightfold annual international increase, though.
You can follow PaidContent_UK on Twitter and comment on their story here.
Morning campers, another round up commences, another day begins.
Good morning Twitter campers – a fairly hefty roundup this morning as lots of news and views coming in by email as well as on our twitter radar!
Fabulously funny cartoon from Geek & Poke:
Good morning people – time for the morning roundup of Twitter news on my radar:
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