Over the last few years, Twitter has seen phenomenal growth in traffic after the stars like Gulpanag, Shashi Tharoor, Barkha Dutt and more started twittering prolifically. Airtel now wishes to cash on that. Airtel has launched a new service TweetSMS for its subscribers to receive twitter updates directly on to their mobile phones.

Twitpic the popular image share service for twitter, seems to have silently endured a database crash or had a severe glitch in their system. While I was browsing pictures on Twitpic, I saw that all the image view counters have been reset to 1.

Twitter has introduced an easy way to report spammers by adding links to report users as spam to twitter profiles.

There are tons of Twitter plugins and tools available for WordPress.org users. In this post, we will take a look at some of the most useful twitter plugins for WordPress users.

TwitLay is a neat Twitter application that allows you to create customized Twitter backgrounds.

Earlier this week Twitter revealed that it is currently beta testing lists on a limited set of Twitter users. Lists will be public by default and linked from your profile.

Twitter is not always boring. Here are some funny people you can follow on twitter. Most of their jokes will definitely make you laugh out loud.

OneForty is a Twitter app store that contains information and reviews for over 1300 Twitter tools and applications.

Digsby releases a new version of their multi-protocol IM client with better twitter features. The new features aim to make conversing at twitter much more easier.

Twitter’s new Retweet API makes its first appearance in a screenshot. With this new Retweet feature, Twitter users can extend their functionality of the Retweet feature instead of merely using RT before the tweet. Look out for this new feature on Twitter in the near future.

Do you feel that your missing a lot of stuff on Twitter? Are those RTs (Re-Tweets) from everyone annoying you? Then here’s something you should need. ReadTwit, an excellent service/software that filters your Twitter feeds to links only resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. The best part is that, any duplicate links or RTs rather in the same time-frame, are grouped together. These feed contains only the links shared by people whom your following on Twitter.

The new twitter birds avatar are available in 6 different colors and are randomly chosen for different profiles

Twitter Times is a new service created around twitter which displays you the links shared in your timeline in a newspaper format. The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your twitter account.

Twitter adds a new feature to display description on trending topics to users for certain topics. The definitions are sourced from WhatTheTrend.com

Facebook has just crossed another milestone by breaking a record of having 300 million active users visit their site, 50 million of which were added in the last 75 days at a rate of 67K users per day