Biz: just got your status on my phone! watson, come in here please! me: nice! update yours i'm following Biz: hey, that makes me think of a good tagline for twitter "do you follow me?" me: got it! i was thinking of that last night! nice. Biz: that is good stuff me: i'm going to hook up the invite system. Biz: sweet baby jesus :P me: then, we have to figure out the sms in stuff. just have to work out permissions at this point Biz: ok me: do you remember what the invite sms sa...

Twttr is a new mobile service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS. When we showed it to Jason Goldman (product manager of Blogger) he called it "present tense blogging." That's a great way to describe it. It's fun to use because it strips social blogging down to it's essence and makes it immediate.Jack Dorsey is one of Odeo's brightest stars so when he told us about this idea that has been haunting him for six years we had to listen. It's not even remotely rel...

Today Odeo released a new product/service/website we call "twitter" (but we spell, Twttr -- ya know, for efficiency).It's a 20% project, if you will, that we—esp. Noah, Jack, and Florian—have been working on on the side for a couple months. It has nothing to do with audio or podcasting, but we think it's kinda neat.Biz describes it better than I will, but the gist is it's a mobile/web social, lightweight/real-time/"present-tense" blogging tool, with the primary interface being through SMS. I...

Dodgeball is so New York! In Silicon Valley, its all Twttr! Twttr is a new mobile social networking application written by Noah Glass (and team), an Odeo-guy, a long time compadre of Blogger founder Ev Williams. (Twttr is a side project.) It is not a very [...]

Odeo released a new service today called Twttr, which is a sort of “group send” SMS application. Each person controls their own network of friends. When any of them send a text message to “40404,” all of his or her friends see the message via sms. This launched officially today, and a few select insiders were playing with the service at the Valleyschwag party in San Francisco last night. People are using it to send messages like “Cleaning my apartment” and “Hungry”. You can also add friends ...

( Thanks to Compiler's Michael Calore for this report.) San Diego is surrounded by raging wildfires, and local residents are frantic for up-to-the minute news.

Despite the fact that Twitter is in English, we continue to see exciting growth from all over the world. Japan, in particular shows a very strong and growing demand for Twitter services. Movatwitter and Twitterpod are great examples.To support continued growth in Japan, Twitter has formed a partnership with Digital Garage to create the official Twitter Japan service. As part of this arrangement, Digital Garage has made an investment in Twitter, Inc and will commit engineering and other devel...