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?

[via AdAge]

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]

Twinkle is Twitter for your iphone. The interface looks simple and beautiful. Their “sales page” also features functionality videos. If you’re gonna pay for it… you might as well know you’re gonna get. I’ve already been seeing some people tweeting on my twitter feed via this application and no complaints from them.

Great execution always sit well with me. Tapulous.com proves exactly that one their site. They might not have tons of applications, but what they do have looks great, and fun.