
Twitter: Nope, We’re Not Doing Video Tweets
October 11th, 2009 admin

We commented a few hours ago on a claim in the Telegraph newspaper that Twitter is considering the addition of video to the service, and expressed skepticism about the report. That skepticism seems well-founded, as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone replied to our inquiries today by email, essentially debunking the article’s premise: Haven’t read the piece but no video hosting. 140 characters of text including spaces. You know …
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