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The white bird is the symbol has become Twitter (screenshot: Twitter. Com)
The Internet communication service Twitter has for its further development for more than 35 million U.S. dollars from investors secured. Twitter, the third round of financing, known, without know the exact sum. Representatives of investors, however, figured in the technology blog Techcrunch the contribution of two of the four participants at 35 million U.S. dollars.
The sum is all the more impressive because of the risk investors face economic crisis, the financing of young Internet companies have massively reduced. Many companies have laid off employees, several tasks already.
The idea of the 2006 Launched Twitter service is something like an SMS, which all can read. Users can write messages, their length to 140 characters is limited. You can see the Twitter stream of certain users subscribe or short messages for all topics.
The word is from the English Twitter Tweet (chirp) is derived. The service was in the U.S. presidential campaign and is intensively used as a modern campaigning tool.
For sensation Twitter, among others, as witnesses of the terrorist attacks of Bombay on the service live from their experiences reported. A few weeks ago published one of the users on the platform coupled Images TwitPic a photo of the New York Hudson River passenger crash, which went around the world.
Twitter currently has several million users, the founders ist there but so far not succeeded, for the service to develop a business model. This, they now also with the new money to tackle, such as co-founder Biz Stone announced. Twitter gathered together more than 50 million U.S. dollars one.
Twitter also popular in the Bundestag
The Micro-blogging service enjoys in the German Bundestag also increasing in popularity. Already one in ten MPs has joined the Internet-connected Plauderdienst. Of the total of 612 Bundestag deputies have 68 Twitter account, as from an examination of the analysis firm Nielsen Media shows.
According to the study, the FDP with 50 people on most accounts, while MPs of the Greens - especially Volker Beck - Twitter the most active use. Members of the SPD and the Greens, each with seven people present, wuring of the CDU Four MEPs Twitter.
Most of the new messages were, according to Nielsen with 1149 so far by members of the Greens drafted. In second place followed by the SPD with a total of 378 published papers. The MPs of the CDU have contributed 200 updates, while the FDP, despite the 50 active accounts only comes to 101 posts. The largest number of "follower", as subscribers to Twitter messages are called, has 3594 people with the SPD.
Thematically, the politicians are concerned primarily with their everyday work, but also reveal private things.