Twitter suffered an outage early yesterday that knocked both the main site and APIs offline for an hour. It’s not known what caused the outage but according to their blog, the site is nearly back to normal: We had a system-side issue this morning starting around 0800 Pacific that resulted in twitter.com experiencing two 30 more »

It turns out that the wars between Google and Bing over real-time search turned out to be a great revenue boost of $25 million for Twitter. Twitter has been notoriously known for being a company that has drawn in investor money but has never been able to return the favor in profit. Now, that little more »

A Chicago woman has been slapped with a $50,000 lawsuit by her landlord. Horizon Group Management filed the lawsuit after the woman complained about her apartment on Twitter. Horizon was angered by her claim that they didn’t care about the mold problem in her apartment. Although she did not have her tweets protected, the complaint only reached about 20 people. Horizon claims the statement “”maliciously and wrongfully” defamed them.

The Koobface worm has now surfaced on Twitter with the latest variation attempting to create as much havoc as possible. The newest code can allow criminals to access a person’s Twitter account and post their own tweets. These tweets are used as a way to spread the worm and infect your followers if they open more »

Has Twitter finally found it revenue source? Bowing to pressure from the US State Department, Twitter put off some downtime in efforts to keep their conduit open for news that is flowing out of Iran. The recent Iranian election results have put the people in the streets demonstrating for what they believe is a fraudulent more »

Twitter is the one social network that we all love, or love to hate. A new study, however, seems to indicate that calling Twitter a true social network might be a bit wrong. Sure, there are some people who use it to keep in touch with friends and family, but it does seem that a more »

Twitter founders are looking for ways to make money from the wildly popular micro-blogging site, but as of right now they are not pursuing ad revenue options. Co-Founder Biz Stone said on Monday at the Reuters Global Technology Summit that the company will instead look to marketing specialized tools to businesses. Twitter is steering clear more »

As just about everybody knows, Twitter is fast becoming one of the biggest social networks out there. Heck, even Ashton and CNN were apparently battling it out to be top tweeter. And given that Twitter limits you to just 140 characters, you have to make each one count. As a result, you see lots of shorthand and acronyms in Twitter-land. Some are ones you are probably pretty familiar with if you’ve already been using some kind of IM (that would be “Instant Messenger”), some, maybe not.

In which case, sure is a good thing you’ve got us to help decipher that Twitter-code, huh? Don’t worry, in no time, you’ll be tweeting like a crazybird (Uh…if that’s a good thing). Keep reading for some of the most often used phrases and acronyms you’ll probably be seeing on Twitter and what they mean are as follows:

This is a real low. Jack in the Box’s fictional character Jack Box is on Twitter and has more followers than I do. The fast food company began a new marketing campaign featured on Twitter alerting followers that Jack was hit by a bus on Sunday. The company ran a Super Bowl ads in selected markets as well.

While his normal tweets were things like: “Having a taco-riffic day!” and “Thinking of new ideas for breakfast sandwiches.” or “Teaching Jack Jr. French,” his assistant tweeted “This is Barbara, Jack’s assistant. Jack was hit by a bus. I’ll be updating his Facebook & Twitter with more info as I get it. Stay tuned….” on Sunday. A website, hangintherejack.com was created with videos on the breaking story.

The U.S. Army has released a report containing concerns that Twitter could be used by terrorists as a way of planning attacks and keeping tabs on each other. It also contained several scenarios of such a use such as a terrorist using the microblogging site to send a tweet to remotely set off an explosive more »