A nice milestone for Twitter: It has now passed 50 million tweets per day, up from about 2.5 million per day at the beginning of last year.

This is one of Twitter’s most important metrics, so it’s a good thing that it’s still growing rapidly. Because Twitter is a distributed service all over the Web, on desktop clients, mobile apps, etc., “unique visitors” to Twitter.com has always been a somewhat flawed growth metric. (Though it’s obviously important for Twitter’s user base to continue growing, too.)

Here’s Twitter’s blog post on the achievement, posted by analytics staffer Kevin Weil:  Read more... (275 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

It sounds like there is another Twitter hack making its way around today. If you think your account has been hacked  for example, you see unexpected Tweets from your account then this is what you should do  Read more... (335 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

1. Change your password (if you can).
   Log in, change your password from the password tab under account settings. If you can remember your password, use the password reset feature. Once you are. implement a strong (upper and lower case, numbers, special characters; more than 8 characters) password that you have NOT used before.

Twitter the microblogging tool has become a macro-tool for events since event planners need to be up to date with trends, audience needs and feedback, buzz and much more. So here we go with a list of twitter tools planners may use pre, during and post events.

To Manage accounts  Read more... (849 words, 1 image, estimated 3:24 mins reading time)

1. tweetdeck TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
2. twhirl Connects you to different accounts such as twitter, friendfeed; it has a cross-post function to Facebook and LinkedIn.

I thought I would share my results from a quick experiment written up in A-level style science experiment. I did in my own home with the help of a normal Dell computer, a regular mother and some internet.

Note: This is a long post ~2k words and is intended for anyone who is involved with designing webapps and or is interested about how badly they are designed for normal people. In this case it’s about Twitter which is unique in that there are some conceptual barriers that people must first grasp before they are able to properly make use of the service.  Read more... (2795 words, estimated 11:11 mins reading time)

Twitter has just announced Chirp, the first official Twitter developer conference. It will take place at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, CA, on April 14 and 15.

The conference, which will be keynoted by Twitter’s leadership, including co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, will be a two-day shindig. The first day will go over subjects such as Oauth, geolocation and business strategies, while the second day will be a 24-hour hack-a-thon for building apps and sharing ideas.  Read more... (247 words, 1 image, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Today we have a guest post by Sarah Milstein, a Web 2.0 consultant, on five ways to use Twitter in your career or in your business. — Marci

Posts from Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey

Twitter is a simple messaging service that you’ve either heard about a lot or not at all. Either way, it’s a fun and useful tool, well worth trying if you want to reach potential and existing customers, employees or employers.  Read more... (659 words, 1 image, estimated 2:38 mins reading time)