The speed at change at Twitter in recent weeks has become rapid in these last few weeks and today it gives users who still tweet mostly via Twitter.com, which many still do, something that they have been asking for a long time – automatic link shortening on Twitter.com.

As with the launch of Twitter’s own photo sharing service this development will hit third party firms like Bit.ly, which will likely quickly become the default. Read More »

Social media management tool Hootsuite has responded to concerns about the link between unrest in Libya and its link shortener Ow.ly by adding two new domain shorteners to its service.

As well as the popular Ow.ly, which uses the top level domain suffix reserved for Libya, users now have the option of shortening their links using Htl.li and Owl.li, the suffix for Lichtenstein. Read More »

Twitter is pushing ahead with its busy pace of launches as it unveils an official retweet button called the “Tweet Button” as it puts more of its own stamp on the web and replaces third party developers. Read More »

If there’s one thing I loathe, it’s lazy Twitterers. I spent an hour or so at the weekend un-following about 100 people I spotted using Twitterfeed.com to populate their stream ad nauseum. Read More »

http://t.co - the native Twitter URL shortener

Twitter has had its fair share of problems with spammers and phishing, especially through its direct messaging feature, but in March it started using its own URL shortening service in DMs, partly as a way of blocking suspicious links. Read More »

Third party developers got a chance fire questions at Twitter brass yesterday during the @Chirp conference, a week after the website ruffled some feathers when it announced it would be side-stepping many independent developers to launch some of its own apps.

Twitter has long thrived on third party developers, who created immensely popular desktop and mobile clients like TweetDeck and UberTwitter, among others.

Developers were confused over Twitter’s announcement last week Read More »