Twitter has become one of the most influential websites in the world with more than 105 million registered users, 180 million unique visitors per month, and 600 million searches per day. Twitter ranks second in the search market, merely left behind by Google. Twitter’s success isn’t just based on its innovative concept of using simple messages to share and communicate with the world. If you carefully analyze the traffic data, you will find 75% of traffic comes from outside of Twitter itself. This means many more people use supported applications and tools than Twitter.com.

Twitter’s business strategies led to this bloom in Twitter applications. The core business of Twitter is to develop, maintain, and administrate Twitter.com. For those interested in developing innovative applications based on its platform, Twitter releases open APIs; this allows creators to access the content on Twitter without barriers or difficulties. Twitter’s huge traffic also attracts application developers who enrich Twitter’s user experience in return for a share of the revenues.

This win-win strategy may have been jeopardized when Twitter founder Evan Williams announced just over a month ago that the company would be buying Tweetie, an iPhone app that had been for sale in the App Store for $2.99. The updated app was released today as Twitter for iPhone and is now available in the App Store for free. According to Twitter, users had been looking for an official app in the store and “we didn’t have one, so they generally got confused and gave up.”

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Wish to be a journalist, but the dream has not come true. Try to start your career from this website. This is a news website called WEnews, announced by a news group in Taiwan on December 3rd. People can report news stories and submit articles to the news website. If your story is accepted, they will pay you for that. Whether your story is valuable is judged by professionals, not digged by you and me. Nevertheles, this still means that everyone could be a journalist no matter what your background is. Read more…

YouTube will cooperate with MGM movie company such that people can watch MGM’s full-length movies and TV programs on the YouTube.
Google announces this cooperation between YouTube and MGM with the intention of appealing more advertisers to join this cooperation. Read more…

Google provides First Click free function to help users find and access content that may require registration or a subscription. In other words, the main idea of First Click Free is giving a way to access the websites that contain the digital content you are interested but never know its existence and at the same time promoting the opportunity for publishers with restricted content to attract more users to visit their websites. In my view point of the First Click free, Google just offers free for the first time and sorry, you have to pay for next time. Maybe we can also think that it is the trend for the Internet in the future. Users would pay for some interesting websites while they are visiting. Does it work?? It depends on people. Do you want to pay for the websites which used to be free? Maybe some people think it is worthy, but others don’t. On the other hand, for the bloggers, it is a chance to make money from their blogs and Google helps bloggers promote their websites by First Click free function. The guidelines of the First Click free are as following: Read more…