Twitter experienced record-shattering and long-lasting traffic surges on Election Night this week without so much as a hiccup—let alone a fail whale—and one of the company’s top tech execs said the ...

Blame it on the Russians. Wired's Cade Metz has an interesting account of how a visit to Twitter headquarters by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev three years ago led to a series of events that ...

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The following story appears in the July/August 2013 issue of Java magazine. Click here to subscribe and to see more great articles. Twitter’s 2006 launch was a long time ago in internet years—and the ...

Biz Stone called it "one of the most special days in the history of Twitter." And as it turned out, it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet.

BANGALORE, INDIA: The popularity of Twitter, Facebook or MySpace amongst Internet user has increased by many folds. Even several enterprises have started using these social networking platforms as a ...