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Like it or not, Twitter has a new design: via

How about this one? You are going out for lunch and decide to have a quick burger or a healthy salad. You end up at 4food in New York where you can create your own personal menu from hundreds of ingredients (the combination of ingredients makes it possible to compose up to 200.000.000 different menus). [...]

Nick Kallen’s slideshow explaining the problems Twitter faced in serving large amounts of real-time data and how they were tackled:

Raffi Krikorian, tech lead of the Twitter API development team, shared an interesting map of a Twitter status object (aka a tweet): map-of-a-tweet

A few days ago, Twitter showed me some strange layout. Beneath the “What are you doing?” box, there was a second box that provided a possibility to send a direct message (or DM in Twitteronian) to one of your contacts. I tried it, it didn’t work, and when I reloaded the page it was gone. [...]

Twitter is a so called micro-blogging service that allows you to share your current activities with the rest of the world. It’s a very easy to use platform and many thousands of users suffer from a Twitter addiction. You can share your activities, thoughts, reflections, ideas, … using the Twitter platform itself, but also through [...]