Twitter and the National Basketball Association have partnered with each as part of a plan for Twitter to expand beyond 140-character status updates. NBA Digital, a joint venture between the NBA and TBS, is going to post game highlights on Twitter during the playoffs using the hashtag #NBARapidReplay, according to Twitter president of global revenue Adam Bain. Short advertisements will appear side-by-side with the clips too.
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has announced a new partnership with Twitter. Now tweets and follow links will be added to Yahoo!’s news feed. We will also see tweets directly from politicians, celebrities, media outlets, and other publishers on Yahoo! News as well.
Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter and founding CEO of Square, has partnered with auction manager Kompolt to set up a lunch meeting at Square’s office in San Francisco that will benefit charity. The auction started on May 6th and will end on May 16th. There are around 3 days left with a current bid of about $5,000. The auction will benefit the BUILD.org charity. The auction winning bidder will be allowed to bring a total of eight people.
Twitter has bought a scalable computing company named Ubalo. Ubalo makes large-scale computing easier and more accessible for a technical audience. Ubalo worked with a number of partners and customers before getting acquired by Twitter. The terms of the acquisition was undisclosed.
The White House has hired former Twitter legal director to work at the top privacy officer working with U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park. Park became the second U.S. CTO in March 2012, replacing Aneesh Chopra. At the White House, Wong will work on Internet and privacy policy.
Twitter has hired Cynthia Gaylor to work as their head of corporate development. Stanley previously worked at Morgan Stanley as a managing director. Despite constant denials of plans to go public, rumor has it that Twitter will likely go public in 2014.
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The world’s richest men are Carlos Slim ($73 billion), Bill Gates ($67 billion), Amancio Ortega ($57 billion), and Warren Buffett ($53.5 billion). We know that Bill Gates officially tweets. Now we can count two out of the four of the world’s richest men as Twitter users because Warren Buffett has joined the service. Buffett sent out his first tweet while being interviewed by Fortune at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His username is @warrenbuffett.
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Twitter is currently developing and testing out an app for Google Glass. There has even been a tweet from the official Twitter Glass app spotted by Jonathan Gottfried, a developer evangelist at Twilio. Gottfried sent out the tweet below with a screenshot about how he spotted the official Twitter for Glass app.
[Screenshot from Jonathan Gottfriend's Twitter account]
