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This week saw the launch of a startup that provides ad campaigns for Twitter for users who want to monetize their Twitter streams.

It’s a concept that’s more narrowly focused than that of boo-box, for example, and more formal than the idea of the often disliked “paid Tweet.” The power of TwittePaga is in its simple and efficient technology for registering participants and tracking the performance of the links. Read more…

Did you try using the tag #trick in your tweets today? Strange things can happen if you use the tag #treat, too. Seriously!

“Trick or treat” is the American expression used by costumed children on Halloween (October 31st) to get candy from their neighbors.

This is the first time Twitter has followed Google’s “wave”, a long history of customizing their logo for special days. Oddly, today Google hasn’t done it.

This post written by designer André Sato for Startupi.

Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter, was in São Paulo last week to participate in the Agenda do Futuro event, sponsored by Grupo TV1.

He thought it very important to understand how Brazilians use Twitter - especially because they are going to launch a Portuguese version. Check out the videos. Read more…

“Twitter is even making less money than newspapers” was the most tweeted phrase during the ONA (Online News Association) conference, which took place at the end of last week in San Francisco. Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter, said it after the host of the event confirmed that the value Twitter had reached and the interest of investors in the business were making journalists jealous. Read more…

What do you want to remember? Who do you want to remember? When do you want to remember it? How will it be sent? These are exactly the questions that the new webservice Twittelembra asks the user. Twittelembra was created by a developer from Santa Catarina, Bruno Bertolini. Read more…

Remember TweetMeme? It is a webservice that blends search for links in tweets (Twitter posts), metrics, and a widget to add to sites and blogs. Great for facilitating and following the socialization of links. In fact, we’ve added it to the English version of Startupi. Very good, but it doesn’t map content in Portuguese.

If you install the TweetMeme button on your Portuguese blog and people click on it to retweet the title and link of the post, the system just marks it at zero, as if nothing was retweeting. But to the joy of the (micro)blogosphere in Brazil, there is now BuzzVolume, which does all this specifically for Portuguese content! Read more…