Twitter is one of the internet’s hottest startups at the moment and with any internet business you need flashy creative offices to retrain and inspire top talent. Twitter’s new space, which was previously Bebo’s SF office, is right around the corner from their old one.

A few members of the Twitter team spent much of the weekend decorating the new digs with a number of Twitter-themed elements like birds and @ symbols. Check out some of the pictures being posted to the web by Twitter employees below.

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It was long back when Google denied Yahoo’s financing in its pre-revenue stages, but taking the risk paid off and Google is, what it is today.

Twitter, today, faces the same dilemma with suitors building up the pressure with every passing day, but investors are aware of this situation (although they do not discuss it openly). The big decision, however, needs to be taken and is if the company should turn the revenue on or ignore the takeover bids and take a risk just like Google.

Given the fact that Twitter has a high potential for the future, taking such a decision is a hard thing to do in the jittery world of the Internet. But reporting no revenue is also a problem, because experts cannot exactly estimate — which means that Twitter could say “bye bye” to any takeovers. Big public houses need a valuation spreadsheet to go ahead with the acquisitions. However, once the revenue is on, the valuation of a company like Twitter can also go down since a long-term growth rate is also furnished and that can never be relied upon — no matter who made the evaluation.

Twitter is at a stage where it has to make a brave decision and this decision could be the turning point for the brand in all senses.

What would you do, if you’d own Twitter?

Instead of getting themselves someone who’s experience enogh to build scalable infrastructures, Twitter has been struggling to please the user with more and more new features. Hence why newly-hired Dick Costolo, the cofounder/CEO of RSS service Feedburner, is going to take over as the Chief Operating Office (COO) from Santosh Jayaram — the current head of operations.

Costolo — who has been an early Twitter investor — left Google back in July and there were reports that he was starting a new company, Twitter, however, managed to rope him just in time.

Although we know the answer to the “what’s going to happen with Feedburner now?” question (as many call it Google’s worst investment so far), what we’re more interested in is if Costelo’s experience is enough to actually help Twitter reach the next level.

What do you guys think?

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Just before Twitter went down again yesterday, many Twitter users noticed a fleeting click tracker in the address bar of the browser before it redirected them to the final site — which might be the cause of downtime as too many people clicked on the redirects. Redirects that look like that http://twitter.com/link_click_count…

When it came back again, the fleeting click tracker was gone so maybe this was just a preview test of what Twitter intends to do in the future.

Apparently Twitter looks determined to track all the links a user clicks on the site, but this is not something utterly new as they already do it in an unorganized way. Currently a user gets redirected twice, first by the shortened URL and then by Twitter itself. Maybe Twitter wants to know where it is sending the most amount of traffic, who is sending the most traffic and which are the most popular tweets.

The entire data can be useful for Twitter’s planned analytics service intended for business customers.

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There’s a new Twitter application out there. We’re talking about the South African folks behind Twitsume — a free online résumé/CV product for the Twitter community.

Twitsume allows all the Twitter account holders to connect and create an online resume. The users have all the discretion to make their Twitsume public or leave it private courtesy of the user enabled settings. There’s also the option to hide a few aspects if you want to keep parts of your resume, private. Other than creating a resume, you can also see which of your friends or followers don’t have a Twitsume account yet, and you get to invite them.

Key features of Twitsume

• Build your online profile by sharing your resumé with your Twitter network
• View other people’s résumés within your Twitter network
• Capture your résumé in a professional format and export email-able and printable versions

The Twitsume.com interface has been built on PersonL  — the company’s recruitment management software suite. Though the Twitsume just took two months to take form, the PersonL has been 2 years in the making.

Looks promising. We have our eyes on you guys!

Not many know what retweeting (RT) on Twitter is — but you probably do. However, for those who don’t, retweeting is getting more attention towards a particular tweet by copy pasting it as your own and crediting the original author with an @ mention and finally indicating that it is a retweet. And this is how Twitter wants to facilitate the open exchange of information to have a global impact whilst also having an efficient dissemination of information across the entire Twitter ecosystem. That very inspiration will see this feature being officially added to Twitter.com.

Phase one of project retweet is to show the developer community how it will work from an API perspective as well as a user perspective.

The final details for project retweet are still getting ready and as of now, Twitter has managed to reach the first phase which caters to the developers. Hence why applications related to the same are being sought.

Consequently, the first official launch of retweeting will be for a selective set of users and once the assessments are made here, a full retweeting tool will become public for all.

So that leaves me to only two questions. Will Twitter beat Google in popularity, and … will you retweet this?

We have never thought that a name other than Google (form the “world” of the internet) will ever find more admiration with the Media, but, against all odds, Twitter managed to get more popularity than the G-all-mighty.

If we’re to believe the news-monitoring service VMS, in the last 30 days Twitter generated $48 million of media coverage and appeared everywhere from news programs to magazines and even daytime talk shows. And just for the curious, in the last monthTwitter received 2.73 billion impressions. Out of this, TV channels contributed 57% of the PR Value, newspapers stood at 37%, while magazines amount for 5% of the value.

However, the number of impressions does not include smaller newspapers across the country which means that if calculated, these impressions could actually double in number. In June alone, Twitter’s unique visitors totaled almost 21 million with the traffic growing 14% over May.

It’s a fact that hot social-media properties slowly tend to fade away after “success” but with Twitter the story could be different as it has more sizzle than any name every had. Care to disagree?

Also, would that trigger a red bulb at Google HQ and lead them to a buyout?

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Twitter has undoubtedly taken the social networking by a storm but what could cloud its future are security concerns — and for the last few days it’s been really difficult to keep track of the number of problems Twitter has faced. From user accounts, to admin accounts, Google Docs or Google Apps, everything related to Twitter is getting busted.

It’s time for Twitter to cater to each of these security problems, individually.

A month back, a Twitter administrative employee’s personal and email account has been hacked. Since then, there have been security audits and Twitter has reminded everyone of the important personal safety guidelines.

Interestingly however, the company is blaming web applications yet advises for strong password to stay away from such problems.

Concerning the latest stolen documents, Twitter is arrogant, and believes that even if everything goes public in there, it will hardly make any kind of a difference. Twitter is already seeking legal counseling to handle those who hacked the documents and the ones who intend to publish them.

We’ll keep all these in perspective, it is still visible that there is a major problem with the security that needs to be addressed quickly or we’ll start seeing adverse affects.

[via TechCrunch]