Twitter now has it’s very own link shortening service. It is not yet open to use as a general service, as plans are to use it only to shorten links on twitter. The new twitter url short service is on it’s on very short url, T.CO. Can’t get much shorter than that. Now to get the full news you should go to twitters’ blog, and not rely on what you may read elsewhere or on twitter as I have seen too much shall we say unreliable information passed out.

Go here: Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn’t Matter

Back in December 2009, the number of tweets per month on Twitter reached 1 billion for the first time. Now in May, we reached yet another milestone: 2 billion tweets per month (or to be precise, 1.99 billion, which is close enough).

Twitter, now 2 billion tweets per month

Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time – USA Today looks at how quickly Twitter has grown to become an important part of how we communicate with each other.

The Twitter Platform – Twitter says it won’t allow third parties to sell ads that appear in users’ timelines.

Twitter’s Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers and Publishers to Pay Up

The 5 Best Satirical Twitter Accounts – Including Drunk Hulk, Fake Sarah Palin, Fake AP Stylebook, BP Global PR and Fake Nick Nolte.

Fake BP Twitter Account Draws Followers With Oil-Spill Satire

Blog: Why Twitter Is the Future of News – It’s remarkably easy to distribute important information quickly, because people are so closely connected to each other on the network.

Why Is Twitter More Popular With Black People Than White People? – A disproportionately higher number of blacks use the the service. Here are some theories.

Android Fragmentation In Action: Twitter’s New Official App Won’t Work On Many Google Phones

Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too – Twitter releases an Android client, but it only works with Android 2.1 and later.

Did not know this until today. That there are people who do not have much of a life (my opinion only) and spend what life they have checking twitter and all the tweets. They are looking for those of us who by accident or design do not spell words correctly. Or they are looking for those who use all caps (AS IN ALL CAPS), which at times is fun to do as I do it.

A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out Twitter messages that are distasteful to them — tweets with typos or flawed grammar, or written in ALLCAPS — and then send scolding notes to the offenders. They see themselves as the guardians of an emerging behavior code: Twetiquette.

Read all about this and these people (hey, have you ever been dinged by one of these people? so far, I have not yet):

The Self-Appointed Twitter Scolds