As popular micro-blogging site Twitter propels forward, it is being groomed and tweaked to fit the needs and preferences of its dynamic user base.  Recent changes include improvements to Twitter search function, and the addition of a prominent featured user section.  Twitter ascended rapidly to become the third-largest online social networking service, and is showing that it is remaining dedicated by constantly evaluating and evolving its forum.

Prioritizing search has been a smart move for Twitter.  People search daily, many multiple times daily for information, products, and services.  For this reason, providing a convenient and functional search option is a great way to cater to Twitter users.  Twitter users also tend to be frequent tweeters, so access to a search bar along with the Twitter platform is a perfect match for tweeters searching for information.  Twitter has expanded its search bar, shrinking the Twitter logo at the top slightly. 

The changes were made with a new search text-entry box positioned at the top right of the site.  The revamped Twitter search will boast the capacity to search for tweets that match not just the search query word, but to return relevant discussion about the query. Watch out Google. Many Twitter users are unlikely to notice the small tweaks and changes rolling out, as a large portion of tweeters use the service via stand-alone apps developed by third-party companies, such as Hootsuite and TweetDeck.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, Fort Lauderdale web design and internet marketing firm.

Rumors are circulating about companies potentially interested in purchasing Twitter, as the micro-blogging platform continues to increase in popularity. It has become common for larger companies to gauge the success of novice startups, and if they foresee profit potential that can enhance their current operations, they tend to begin the process of making offers. 

There is chatter of course that large entities such as Google and Apple could have their eyes on the prize.  Google could purchase Twitter and integrate it into their technology arsenal.  This would not be a surprising move, after all Google did purchase social media sites MySpace and YouTube.   Twitter has millions of active users and is evolving daily-becoming a tool in the daily lives of many.

Apple or any other company could also snatch up the blossoming social mini-platform, and it should be interesting to see what offers roll out.  What are your thoughts on this topic?  Who, if anyone, do you feel would be the best buyer for Twitter?

It hardly seems possible that Twitter has already chirped its way to the third-largest online social networking service, riding the draft winds of Facebook and Myspace, according to Compete.   The majority of Tweeters initially signed up for the service in 2008, thus giving Twitter an impressive online traffic increase of almost 1000 percent in its first year. I assume a thank-you Oprah is in order…along with other high profile and celebrity tweetsters.

More recently, there has been increasing chatter in the cyber-sphere about Twitter attracting a growing number of users, possibly positioning it to potentially …compete with Google?  Surely, that is impossible?  Well, Twitter does already feature a search function, search.twitter, and some feel that could allow the social networking sensation to compete with larger search engines someday, if it strengthened its search capabilities.

And to thicken the plot, recently announced new features of Twitter include a…more powerful search function.  This will obviously be fascinating to…follow!  Sorry, couldn’t resist myself.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, Fort Lauderdale web design and interactive marketing firm.

The innovative and ingenious creators of Google Maps, Jens and Lars Rasmussen, have been busily developing Google’s newest communication and collaboration tool-Google Wave.  For the past two years, the brothers have been in Australia developing the new tool for communicating over the Web.  They exhibited their work for developers in San Francisco on Thursday.

Essentially, Google Wave is an application operating in a Web browser that creates a shared online desktop for two or more users to easily interact and exchange messages and information, similar to instant messaging or email.  The users are able to share and edit rich documents including images, formatted text and graphics.  A cool feature of Google Wave is the ability for users to drag and drop widgets into a Wave, and play a game together, publishing results to the Web or saving them.  According to Lars,
“It is a communications and collaborations tool.  We call it a Wave.  It is equal measure document and conversation”.

A novel concept from the bright minds behind the sensational Google Maps, Wave will be available in late 2009.  Google is making the tool available to developers immediately, to incite them to build new apps for it.  Rumor is that developers at Google have created a Wave that follows the Twitter messages of the user.  It has the potential to become a convenient place where people can keep up with various mail and instant messaging accounts.  Google is certainly making waves, and showing that internet browsers have become dominant enough to be used as a platform to develop multifaceted apps-a potential blow to the desktop.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, South Florida web design and online marketing firm. 

There are people who use MySpace, Facebook, and those who feel compelled to use both social networking sites.  MySpace has the title of the country’s leading social networking service, yet has been slowly losing its users.

There is a recent trend showing some users gravitating to other social media networks, notably Facebook.  According to ComScore, MySpace users are younger and have lower incomes than Facebook users, so it is important to separate user demographics in order to obtain a more complete perspective on the issue.
The trend for parents, executives and career-oriented individuals to choose Facebook over MySpace is mostly due to the available features incorporated into the site that make it ideal for business connects and use.  The music industry is still connected deeply to MySpace, where nearly every band seems to have a MySpace page for fans. 

Social networks are evolving and becoming a part of everyday personal and business dealings, with new features and politics keeping users interested.  It seems that the platform MySpace utilizes simply does not offer enough interactive features to satisfy a user base that is becoming accustomed to them.  Relayed by Deep Blue Interactive, SEO web design and internet marketing firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.