• Waiting For The New Twitter? Get A DM When You're Eligible

    Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More


    If you’re like me you don’t have the new Twitter yet (Wow, talk about a gradual roll-out fail. Hey dudes, I work for TechCrunch remember!). So what’s a girl to do other than stay up all night crying and manually refreshing Twitter.com until she gets a taste of that sweet sweet bifurcated screen?

    Well there’s, yes, a Twitter app for that. For those of us that are still out of the split screen loop, Ryan LeFevre has made “Am I Upgraded Yet?” a simple app that direct messages you when you’re (finally) eligible to switch over.

    So peace out guys, I’m going to sleep. And crossing my fingers that that DM will be there in the morning. Oh and in case you forgot, it’s @alexia.

    Thanks: @pistachio and @moth

    Company: Twitter
    Website: twitter.com
    Launch Date: March 21, 2006
    Funding: $1.16B

    Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post updates 140 characters long. Twitter “is a real-time information network that connects [users] to the latest stories, ideas, opinions, and news.” The service can be accessed through a variety of methods, including Twitter’s website; text messaging; instant messaging; and third-party desktop, mobile, and web applications. Twitter is currently available in...

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