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NTT DoCoMo Inc has partnered with US social networking service Twitter Inc to jointly develop a location based alert service for smartphone users based on tweets, according to the report in the Nikkei business daily.

The paper also reported that the two firms have signed an agreement under the terms of which Twitter will provide its databases to DoCoMo and the services will be launched this winter.

However, Twitter will remove data that could identify users, before using the stored tweets for this service, the business daily said.

Twitter’s Carolyn Penner posted some statistics about the microblogging website on the company blog. In three years, two months and one day after the launch users wrote one billion tweets. Now they send one billion tweets a week.

Penner wrote that on March 12th alone 572,000 accounts were created which is up from 460,000 accounts on an average day last month. Besides, Twitter’s seen a 182 percent increase in mobile users over the past year.

In a move to help people in Egypt stay connected to other world and be heard Google has launched a special Twitter service, as the government has banned all Internet connections.

"Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground," read a post on Google's official corporate blog on Monday.

Twitter confirmed earlier rumors that it is being blocked in Egypt. Now the microblogging service posted two tweets where it says the rumors are true.

“We can confirm that Twitter was blocked in Egypt around 8am PT today. It is impacting both Twitter.com & applications,” Twitter communications head Sean Garrett just tweeted out via their new PR account. “We believe that the open exchange of info & views benefits societies & helps govts better connect w/ their people,” he continued in a second tweet.

A new research by the Carnegie Mellon University users of the popular microblogging website Twitter differ by regional dialects. Thus, New-Yorkers say "suttin" for "something" while other say "sumthin."

As Twitter users have only 140 capacity to send a message they tend to shorten words so as to cram into the limitation and this happens differently across the United States,

Twitter is bringing a new social and community element to television, according to the company officials. Twitter says its service makes "community viewing" possible now-no assembly required. According to the new stats 60% of people routinely watch the tube while also surfing the web on their laptop. On the other hand, Nielsen figures also show that tweet traffic on the East Coast spikes every time an episode of Dancing with the Stars came on TV.

Twitter is rolling out a new version of its website to simplify for its millions of users to navigate the service and discover new information. The company announced the redesign of the website which will include YouTube videos and other content featured in a new two-panel layout.

Twitter Chief Executive Evan Williams said the overhauled twitter.com features a completely new architecture, which is more responsive and user-friendly

"It makes it such a richer and faster experience," Williams said at a press conference to announce the new site.

In a Sunday release of New York Times a reporter Brian Stelter described his using Twitter as an assistant for losing weight by setting up a @brianstelter25 account for his progress and tweeting out his exercise plan and meals. He started on March 2, 2010.

North Korean move to join Twitter was welcomed by the US government who also called upon the insular nation to let its citizens also see the recently opened account and access the web at all.

"We use Twitter to connect, to inform, and to debate. We welcome North Korea to Twitter and the networked world," wrote Philip Crowley, a state department spokesman on his Twitter account.

Twitter has adopted a new policy relating to deceased users. The microblogging website introduced a new "How to Contact Twitter About a Deceased User" protocol to allow the relatives of a deceased person either to delete his/her profile or keep it present.

Twitter provides two options. A post in its Help Center explained, "If we are notified that a Twitter user has passed away, we can remove their account or assist family members in saving a backup of their public Tweets."

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston decided to measure moods of online users analyzing Twitter messages, or tweets, and have created a Twitter Mood Map for these purposes.

As the analysis shows people are happiest in the morning and in the evening, with happiness peaking on Sunday morning and dipping Thursday night. Twitter users appeared most gloomy at mid-afternoon, shifting to better moods in the evening. Of course, weekends were unconditional days when people are happier than in other time.

A popular Internet microblogging service Twitter has agreed to a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over counts of putting its users at risk of identity theft by failing to protect their private information.

Under the terms of the settlement Twitter is creating an independently audited security program, among other measures.

According to a new survey commissioned by Fleishman-Hillard and conducted with market research firm Harris Interactive, people trust more those companies who use microblogging websites like Twitter to provide real-time responses.

The research showed that about 75% of consumers polled say they view companies who microblog sending frequent messages on sites like Twitter or updating their status on social networks like Facebook as more trustworthy than those who don’t.

Twitter users were hit by phishing attack last night with a number of prominent people also affected by the hack. On Friday morning users could find messages on compromised accounts that read, "hey, i've been having better sex and longer with this here," followed by a link to a Web site selling sexual-performance drugs.

Among the public persons affected by the attack were Ed Miliband, a British Cabinet member and the country's secretary for energy and climate change, and Matt Wells, head of audio at The Guardian newspaper.