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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone denies video hosting plans

October 12th, 2009 -- Posted in twitter | No Comments »

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has debunked claims in the British press that the service is planning to roll-out video hosting.
“Twitter users may soon be posting real-time video tweets in addition to text tweets under plans to modernise the site,” claimed the Telegraph in an unsourced report over the weekend.
“The upgrade, which is being discussed by Twitter’s founders, will enable Twitter users to upload brief video snippets to their profiles directly from mobile phones, laptops and other devices,” added that report.
Biz Stone keeps it simple
Well it doesn’t look very much like Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been discussing the plans for video hosting in much depth, as he responded to the report, telling Mashable:

“Haven’t read the piece but no video hosting. 140 characters of text including spaces. You know the drill!”

You can, of course, go multimedia on your Tweets by using a variety of third-party Twitter apps such as TweetDeck or Tweetie.

Via The Telegraph.co.uk/

Twitter Advertising Deal

October 9th, 2009 -- Posted in How, Other, What, twitter | No Comments »

Are Microsoft and Google hoping to get into Twitter’s treasure trove of real-time information? Yes, says Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, citing sources who indicate that the two companies are separately in talks with Twitter about data licensing deals.This would involve the exchange of several million dollars plus a revenue-share to “compensate Twitter for its huge and potentially valuable trove of real-time and content-sharing information, generated from the data stream of billions of tweets of its 54 million monthly users,” Swisher wrote.

What’s unclear is whether either deal will actually come to fruition. More concrete is the likelihood that Twitter won’t strike any exclusive deals, considering the company is (according to Swisher) “seeking to create a large open platform, which many could plug into, from search engines to marketers to publishers to developers.”Twitter, which just raised about $100 million at a valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 billion, doesn’t have a significant revenue stream in place yet. It’s slated to launch a premium-services package later this year, but big search-data deals with the likes of Microsoft and Google could be a significant additional source of cash. continue reading »