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Promoted Tweets Could Change Real-Time Consumption

Don Martelli

With a lot of hubbub and some fanfare, Twitter rolled out their "Promoted Tweets" program today, i.e. advertising.

In articles from AdAge and The New York Times, the Promoted Tweets platform will enable businesses to inject their messages into the Twitter stream without getting lost in the constant stream of information. The service rolled out first with search results, and will later, according to reports, enter both Twitter.com streams and third-party apps such as TweetDeck and Tweetie, which was snatched up by Twitter last week.

What Twitter's Acquisition of Tweetie Means

Don Martelli

Tweetie now becomes Twitter for iPhoneYesterday, Twitter announced some pretty big news that I'm not sure got the attention that it deserved -- they bought the popular iPhone/Mac client Tweetie.

For iPhone users and Mac heads, Tweetie is a popular applications because of its ease of use and Mac-like user interface. The company also announced that they brought on Tweetie's founder and added him to the mobile roster. Conversely, they renamed the application Tweetie for iPhone, with Tweetie for iPad coming sometime later this year.

So, what does this mean for Twitter really?

Twitter's User Base 60% International

Don Martelli
, Technorati

Twitter GermanIn a blog post today, Twitter announced that more than 60% of users reside outside of the U.S., mostly due in part to the service being launched in other languages last year.

That expansion took place in October of 2009 and in November, the site became available in Spanish and shortly thereafter, French. December was when the site was available in Italian and German. However, Japan has been online for just about two years.

Twitter’s lead engineer for the international team, Matt Sanford, wrote today: