A Twitter user who made threats last week that he would turn a peaceful demonstration violent was arrested on the 15th. The FBI arrested CitizenQuasar better known as Daniel Knight Hayden making him likely the first Twitter user involved in criminal prosecution as a result of Twitter activity. (via wired)

Users blamed Oprah’s popularity for causing the site to slow down when she issued her first tweet. Estimates are that perhaps over a million new users joined the site after Oprah discussed it on her talk show. A million users is nothing more than a guess and a very rough one at that. The estimate [...]

I wrote briefly about how a majority of the Twitter user base is working adults. Comscore took a closer look at the numbers and offers their thoughts on who is actually powering Twitter adoption. They should also have their own US traffic numbers sometime next week.

Twitter has been getting poked fun of left and right lately it seems.

You knew it was coming, 140 characters is so limiting. Say hello to 160 character goodness, those extra 20 characters never felt so good! Best of all it is free if you are quick enough to get an invite.

TechCrunch has a nice guest post from Mrinal Desai on the transformation of Twitter in recent months. The article brings up some valid points which once you think about it are the very same things we saw early on with MySpace, craze for friends (followers), adoption by celebrities and the growth of fake accounts.

Twitpic is adding a huge amount of capacity in order to keep up with the sites current demand according to the Twitpic blog.
This is the first big step in making Twitpic more reliable. This move will put Twitpic on its new hardware platform with over 3 times it’s current capacity…basically we bought more hamsters and [...]

Twitter posted an update recently on the Twitter Status blog indicating they’ve almost squashed all the bugs that have impacted site performance recently.

The site has been sluggish the past couple days, but we’ve been making good progress on some of the more serious bugs.

We’ve largely resolved the database inconsistency issues that were responsible for a [...]

Nielsen recently released statistics that show Twitter is extremely popular among adults.  The recent study found that only 3 million of Twitter’s users are under 35, while adults aged 35-49 make up a staggering 42% (or about 3 million accounts) of Twitter’s user base. Additionally 1.5 million accounts are in use by those 55 or [...]

There are a few reports going around that Twitter along with other forms of social media will become part of the curriculum in primary schools in the UK. To make room for the additional course material various requirements in fields such as science, geography and history will lessened.