The staff at Twitter have not had a great week. Just a day after Twitter personal accounts of staff were hacked, they reported that internal business documents were stolen and were being sent to various blogs and news websites.

Most refused to publish them online however TechCrunch decided to show them, first the revenue reports and a document which detailed Twitters marketing and development strategy over the next year.

I have to say that I’m a bit surprised that TechCrunch decided to publish these private documents. These documents were stolen from Twitter. The fact that they didn’t steal them themselves is neither here nor there.

I wonder how Mike Arrington would feel if his site was hacked and internal information was made public?

What do you think, given the circumstances, should TechCrunch have published these documents?

Kevin

A few months ago someone posted a 247 character tweet, way larger than the usual 140 limit. Amer from ThoughtPick worked out how they did this and decided to break the record with his own 250 character tweet.

Amer spoke of two ways to achieve this:

Method 1: Load twitter.com. Disable Javascript, reload the page. You’ll notice that the character counter disappears. That’s it!
Method 2: A more geekier approach using Linux command line: curl -u username:pass -d “status=your long tweet…” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

I’m a bit surprised that Twitters 140 character limit can be broken so easily. I wouldn’t be surprised if they fixed this in the future so if you want to write a very long Twitter message, now’s the time!

Link : Reclaiming the Longest Tweet in History at 250 characters!

I went to see Sacha Baron Cohens new film Bruno yesterday. It wasn’t a match for his previous film Borat, and was far from being a classic, however I thought it was worth watching. Many people disagree though and voiced their opinions on the net, particularly on Twitter.

According to Time Magazine, the negative reviews on Twitter could have cost the producers of Bruno $20 million due. It did make just over $30 million in it’s opening weekend however early signs were indicating that it was going to make $50 million or more.

Word of mouth can be the making or breaking of a movie. In the past it took a few days or a few weeks for word of mouth to spread but Twitter seems to accelerate this process.

Just goes to show how influential Twitter has become. I’m sure that movie producers will start paying attention to Twitter more in the future and may dedicate more money to promoting their films through it.

Google posted a list of all of the Twitter accounts they yesterday. It is clear from this extensive list that they are embracing Twitter.

Here is the full list for all of you Google fanatics

General

twitter.com/Google – our central account
twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages – news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews – latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader – from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle – news & notes from Google’s personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents – news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube – for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES – en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork – solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related

twitter.com/SketchUp – Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH – SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown – 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach – Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps – uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related

twitter.com/AdSense – for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper – looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah – Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics – insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder – re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail – for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK – for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE – for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE – for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT – info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia – AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords – Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI – AdWords API tips

Developer & technical

twitter.com/GoogleResearch – from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC – Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode – latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData – Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine – web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation – our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI – about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO – Google’s largest annual developer event

Culture, People

twitter.com/googletalks – notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs – the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region

twitter.com/googlearabia – news from the Google Arabia Blog*
twitter.com/googledownunder – Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE – Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm – Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt – Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

TweetDeck, arguably the most popular Twitter desktop client today, looks like it will be going from strength to strength after securing an investment of $2 million. He revealed the investment to TechCrunchs’ Mike Arrington during CrunchUp.

The question now is how do they recoup this investment. They recently released a TweetDeck iphone application which proved to be very popular, however it was released for free. Perhaps future versions of the software will have advertisements integrated. i wouldn’t be too surprised if they used the money to invest in a premium version of the script to sell to businesses and professionals.

Looks like Twitter has taken a further step into being totally integrated into todays world. A few days ago it was announced that Twitter would be entering the English Dictionary.

Considering how often Twitter is reported in newspapers and television, it really isn’t a big surprise. Though it does show the overwhelming growth of the site in the last year.

Elaine Higgleton, from Dictionary company Collins , told the Daily Mail:

Hardly a day goes by when you don’t see some Twitter-related article. Hence I find it entirely unsurprising that this year we have not one Twitter-related entry in the dictionary, but three.

Source : Twitter gains entry in dictionary