The weeks and months leading up to Twitter's now historic IPO was flush with serious research...... The weeks and months leading up to Twitter's now historic IPO was flush with serious research reports, in-depth articles, one-off commentaries and streams of digital data that seemed to place the company, in both a positive and a negative light, simultaneously. No one really knew what would happen when the bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 6, 2013; even fewer know what is next.

In response to a lawsuit filed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, Twitter has decided to v...... In response to a lawsuit filed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa, Twitter has decided to verify some accounts. Although Twitter responded that, "Mr. La Russa's lawsuit was an unnecessary waste of judicial resources bordering on frivolous," they will start releasing verified accounts this summer.

Sorry to break it to you, but you are not more popular on Twitter; the network simply updated its notifications feature.... Today, however, once that bell is clicked it takes users to what Twitter calls a "notifications timeline." While account activity is still available within this feature, Twitter is also surfacing a variety of other activity including recommendations, highlights and news.

Twitter is taking its users on a trip down memory lane via its new Tweet tool as a way...... Twitter is taking its users on a trip down memory lane via its new "Tweet tool" as a way to celebrate its 8th birthday.... The tool allows users to discover the first tweet of any Twitter handle, which is a fun way to see how the social community has evolved over the years. Many first tweets of the Web's top brands include some kind of welcoming message, while others are promotional or light-hearted in nature.

Twitter dropped a bomb on real-time search proponents and social media users today in an understated...... Twitter dropped a bomb on real-time search proponents and social media users today in an understated, Twitter-typical "later this summer" announcement that is immensely important to the future of URL shortening and the company itself.

Social networks can sometimes feel like a jungle, so Twitter decided to add a vine to the mix (not l...... Social networks can sometimes feel like a jungle, so Twitter decided to add a vine to the mix (not literally, of course).... Vine is Twitter's new mobile service that allows users to capture and share short, six seconds or less, looping videos. According to a blog post from the social network, the briefness of Vine videos is meant to inspire creativity, just like Tweets. Moreover, the videos capture sound in addition...

Twitter announced this week that it will soon begin allowing publishers to monetize their Periscope content with pre-roll ads.... The network announced this week that it will soon begin allowing publishers to monetize their Periscope content with pre-roll ads Here's how it works according to Twitter:... will mirror how ads currently appear on all Twitter video: when consumers scroll through their timelines or search for content from a specific publishers or creators, Periscope videos - live and replay - can start with a short ad.... To be honest, how many of you know that Periscope was even a part of Twitter?

Social networks can sometimes feel like a jungle, so Twitter decided to add a vine to the mix (not l...... Social networks can sometimes feel like a jungle, so Twitter decided to add a vine to the mix (not literally, of course).... Vine is Twitter's new mobile service that allows users to capture and share short, six seconds or less, looping videos. According to a blog post from the social network, the briefness of Vine videos is meant to inspire creativity, just like Tweets. Moreover, the videos capture sound in addition...

PubNub for example, which provides a "Data Stream Network" for IoT, mobile and Web apps, just announced that its solution can now be used as part of Fabric, Twitter's modular mobile platform for app development. Using PubNub Data Streams on Fabric allows app developers to publish, subscribe and notify customers with only few lines of code and combine PubNub's offering with other third-party SDKs to streamline the development of their applications.

Twitter's VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, has come out and said that Twitter will soon start craw...... Twitter's VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, has come out and said that Twitter will soon start crawling and indexing links included in tweets. That's big.... Take a look at TinyURL's home page - they claim more than 222 million links have been shrunk for Twitter. That's without the host of other services out there like budurl, cli.gs, bit.ly and any number of others. That's an enormous index of content available to be crawled. And it's all been taking place in under three years.