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Twitter Shot J.R. – How The Buzz Is Turning Towards Making Money

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TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter is close to securing another funding round which should value Ev’s company at a quarter of a billion dollars. No matter the economic climate, or any lingering web bubble, investors do not put down the cash unless they see some concrete plans. Now those plans could be a cold hard plan on how to make money from Twitter, or it could be something slightly less concrete in the near future but coupled with the volume of users (and intra-user connections). Whatever The Big Book of Making Money in 140 Characters or Less says, someone has

The Twitter House That Jack (and Evan) Built May Be Taken Over By… Everyone

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There’s been a lot of movement in the last week or so in the field of micro-blogging, from discussions about searching on Twitter, the fund raising of both TweetDeck (an Adobe Air based client) and Indenti.ca (an open source micro-blogging platform that mirrors Twitter’s functionality). All of this is built on the principles of Twitter – an API that everyone can interact with is the main reason this has been possible – but there’s more and more movement away from the central Twitter service to having clients that talk to just the database from your computer, or that build up