Ladies and gents, brace yourselves. Twitter is once again down! 🙂 The performance issue has been officially acknowledged by the Twitter team on the Twitter Status page. As of this writing, the service has been down and/or experiencing issues for over an hour now. The so-called Fail Whale has been making appearances all this time now.

The company writes on …

One could argue that GigaTweet is not completely accurate, but cannot deny that Twitter continues to grow at an entirely impressive pace. Data suggests that the 15 billionth Tweet was transmitted approximately two months ago, and the 10 billionth Tweet transmitted roughly five months ago.

About thirty-seven million Tweets have been transmitted since the milestone has been reached at the …

Twitter recently announced today on the Twitter Blog the introduction of a new friend-suggesting feature called “Suggestions for You,” which will connect users with other individuals. According to the company, the suggestions will be made based on several factors such as a user’s followers and the folks they follow. Twitter will suggest new followers on its home page, …

Twitter launched today a new account called @EarlyBird, which will promote special offers, deals, and even events. At the moment, only one tweet has been posted with a link that redirects users to a FAQ page on the Twitter Help Center explaining everything about @EarlyBird. In it Twitter explains that it has partnered with several unnamed advertisers to offer …

According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, microblogging service Twitter is now handling upwards of 800 million search queries on a daily basis. The figure is up 33 percent from April, when it was announced that the service was handling a significantly lower figure of 600 million search queries daily. That means that over 24 billion search queries are being handled …

The beta of Twitter App for BlackBerry was publicly released in April, about two months after a private beta of the application was released.

The new version of Twitter App for BlackBerry will include support for several new languages such as Portuguese EU, Japanese, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, and Korean. Additionally, the new Twitter for BlackBerry will see the …

Twitter has updated its official application for the iPhone to version 3.0.1 to support the newly-released iOS 4. According to the release notes, the new version of the Twitter for iPhone has been enhanced with OAuth for more security when posting tweets, photos, or videos. Additionally, the new version of the app includes support for multitasking and the new iPhone …

Twitter Introducing Location based services are becoming very popular these days and the famous micro blogging site “Twitter” is also adding places to its site. Twitter has officially announced that it is going to add places to Twitter updates which is called “Twitter Places“. Twitter Places allows users to add a place to a tweet. This will help …

San Francisco-based microblogging service Twitter appears to be experimenting with a new “You both follow” feature, which basically allows users to determine which friends or followers they have in common with any of their contacts. In a way, it’s similar to the “Mutual Friends” feature on MySpace and Facebook.

According to tweet sent out by Twitter Engineer Nick Kallen, the …

The  twitter official iPhone app is out now with many new features for iPhone and iPod Touch users and before it was known as Tweetie. The twitter iPhone app is available in free for download at app store.

Features of Twitter iPhone App:

• Real time tweets search and find users
• Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends…winner