Twitter News (Updated Daily)

• Researchers use Twitter tweets to measure moods
  Twitter is for more than just tweeting. […]
• Twitter Begins User Streams Testing. Realtime Tech Should Help Ease API Strain
  For some time now, Twitter has been working on a new API: the Twitter Streaming API. The idea behind it is to allow third-party Twitter clients to receive continuous tweet updates in realtime. As developer advocate Taylor Singletary notes today on the Twitter Development Talk Google Group, limited testing of this new feature (also called "User Streams […]
• @Twitter Users #Fail as Branding Automatons
  Just about everything people say on Twitter is public, offering marketers a rare chance to listen in on what folks are saying about their brands, and to trumpet their messages to the masses. But Twitter users fail spectacularly when it comes to disseminating branding messages to each other. […]
• Twitter could act as early warning system for epidemics: Experts
  The micro-blogging site Twitter could act as an early warning system for epidemics, a team of experts at London's City University found in a new study. […]
• Twitter tweets reflect moods?
  NEW YORK - TWITTER is for more than just tweeting. Using millions of Twitter messages, or tweets, from the popular social networking site, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have created a Twitter Mood Map to measure the moods of the nation. […]
• Twitter poll? Let's not get carried away
  YESTERDAY Twitter was crackling with messages about something it can never do. Twitter is a virtual village pump, the office water cooler in the ether. […]
• Twitter's oldest user IvyBean104 dies
  The world's oldest Twitter and Facebook user, Ivy Bean, has died at the age of 104. Related Stories Apple's iPad 'to be Christmas best-seller' 'Jailbreaking' iPhones is legal, US watchdog rules Sony shows off 360-degree 'autostereoscopic' display - no 3D glasses needed Sony reveals holographic display - no 3D glasses n […]
• Twitter users gather at Tokyo event for some old-fashioned face time
  Some 400 Twitter users in Japan gathered to meet Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the third annual Tweetup Japan 2010 event in Tokyo on Friday night. The event was meant for Twitter users to mingle with each other and the staff of Digital Garage Inc., the Tokyo-based company operating Twitter in Japan, as well as with Williams, who flew in from his home base of […]