Cody Taylor

For the last several months, social-media pundits have busied themselves debating whether Twitter was the new Facebook.

Compete just released this month’s statistics and unsurprisingly, Twitter had a big month, growing around 33 percent over the past month, just within the United States. Recently I’ve been estimating the site at around 10 million global users and it’s clear that with the massive press coverage, the company is growing at a quick rate.

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The ongoing guess work and dead reckoning over whether the search giant Google will soon buy micro-blogging site Twitter was ended by Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Saturday. On PBS’s Charlie Rose show, Schmidt made it clear that they are “unlikely to buy anything in the short term”.

A bold social media marketing experiment on the Mars brand’s home page prompted a lively debate at the fourth annual Social Media Conference

It’s well known that Facebook has had its eye on Twitter (as well as several billion dollars if it ever wants to be acquired). Now, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has joined!

Tom Brearley and David Somers are the 19-year-old developers behind Twitterfall, one of the hottest Twitter tools on the web.

I set out to learn more about the search feature, which is what so many are saying will be where Twitter makes its money, and found all of my advanced theorizing led me to a pretty basic page that held … If you go to http://search.twitter.com/advanced you can literally see all of the different ways you can search

Tom Brearley and David Somers are the 19-year-old developers behind Twitterfall, one of the hottest Twitter tools on the web.

I set out to learn more about the search feature, which is what so many are saying will be where Twitter makes its money, and found all of my advanced theorizing led me to a pretty basic page that held … If you go to http://search.twitter.com/advanced you can literally see all of the different ways you can search