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In this blog i gather interesting news and stats about twitter. I wellcome everybody to join the disscussion and share your thoughts and wishes on making Twitter even better.

Twitter won't bill for followers. At least for now.August 12

   GigaOM posted today that Twitter is may be going "fremium" asking for a payment if your followers count go over 2000. However Evan Williams (one of Twitter's co-founders) replied that this is not true.

In various interviews Twitter co-founders shared that they explore the possibilities of taking the money for twitting from corporate users, however I am sure that it would aply more to some specific brands and some extra services.

Twitts of people who twitt a lot are less valuable?August 10

3 days ago I started using our alfa-version of twitter client. I personally prefer to use the web-based version, as I don't really need to be alerted about new messages instantly. It doesn't have a skin (design) on yet and lacks some features but the alerts and groups work and show how many new twitts each person has.

I have updated the page about the alfa-version. If you are already following me, d-msg me and I'll give you a link to try it.

I now follow 158 people on Twitter and some time ago I started to notice that I use Twitter less and less frequently 'cause I get tons of Twitts that are really worthless to me. But after I've set alerts for the 14 people which twitts I don't want to miss twitter got it's permanent place in one of my tabs.

What I also noticed is that people that twitt less usually twitt about some important things in their life or about the world around them and these twitts are really interesting. Of course there are some exeptions. So before pushing that send button next time take a second and think if your Twitt is interesting fo

Links to Twitter services, that I find useful.July 23

This is a very short list :)
It's just the tools I use personally.

• Twitter Karma - let's you check your followers/friends and mass follow/un-follow/block them.
• Quotably - shows threaded conversations, so you don't miss any replies.
• Hurl.ws - my service of choice to shorten URLs, it's hosted by google and lets you easily track clicks by adding /hits/ at the end of your url.

Twitter gives it's full feed to Gnip.July 18

In a techcrunch post Michael Arrington breaks the news that Gnip now gets the full Twitter PubSub Feed and all developers can access it via Gnip's API.

Twitter's top managers stated earlier that they are worried about if it's safe to give away the full feed and in the Twitter Development Talk group they Alex mentioned that if the XMPP feed would be given to anybody it would require an additional contract that would prohibit resyndicatíon of this content. Currently only a few sites were given access to to this feed including FriendFeed that is actually building a competitor to Twitter on top of this feed.

I really think it's a great move as Twitter actually keeps the control over the feed as it can still cut any site from using it and it can cut Gnip in case it wouldn't be able to block the sites that abuse the feed usage.

For all the developers it's simply great, because that would allow us to provide updates to users in real time handling all the communication with the end-user from own servers without pushing the API calls to their limits. The Twitter API would serve to get the additional protected information.

I still didn't see a company that did the work with 3d party developers right. Google's i-home is a tutorial on how th

Twitter acquires Summize and extends the official API.July 15

stevekinney: Twitter – who makes no money – just paid for a service that made no money (Summize). Maybe everything I thought is wrong.

   Great news for all Twitter developers: Twitter will extend the possibilities of the current API with search functionality from summize. Summize.com now redirects to search.twitter.com and as I understand we will soon see a change in the Twitter UI also.

If you need detailed info Alex Payne answers some questions about the acquisition in this post. 

Why is this important?
   Some applications were already using Summize API, but it's really tricky to count on a 3d party API as it can shut doors or change rules any time it wants. As it is now the part of Twitter developers can count on it and use it, so expect a lot of interesting search and tracking apps to appear in the future.

Threaded @conversations?
Summize can currently locate and display dialogs. The real question that I think is important for most of the Twitter