Evan Williams

Twitter Inc. has redesigned its website for the first time in its four-year history to draw more users and get them to stay longer as it competes for advertising dollars with Internet rivals Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. The redesign, which will roll out...

Android will now have the official Twitter app for their phones. At yesterday's Twitter Chirp Conference, Evan Williams announced that the micro-blogging network would be launching an Android app. It's not clear yet if Twitter will acquire the widely...

Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell discuss their new start-up company, Thing Labs. Their Twitter and Facebook aggregator Brizzly launched publicly today....

How does Silicon Valley laugh off Hollywood’s upcoming film on Facebook? With mock trailers for fake movies only slightly less factual than “The Social Network.” YouTube.com was the first in the spotlight. The latest send-up is “Twitter Movie...

Google announced today that Blogger's beta feature that allows users to create separate pages -- such as an "about me" page -- is now available to everyone....

Tibetan spirtual leader Dalai Lama joins Twitter...

Twitter engineer Alex Payne upset a flock of third-party developers recently when he boasted about new features the company plans to roll out to its website. "If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to...

Twitter's Evan Williams announces @Anywhere feature to help propel the micro-blogging site to new reaches....

Twitter's first official South by Southwest party was so hard to get into that the tech geeks outside waiting in the queue created a Foursquare check-in for the line. Once inside The Parish bar, the fortunate ones were treated to a full set by rhythm...

The South by Southwest crowd was the source of another public stoning on Monday when Harvard Business Reviews's Umair Haque, author of the “The Awesomeness Manifesto," was anything but awesome....

"So, how was your week?" asked Umair Haque in his first blog post since his widely panned interview of Twitter CEO Evan Williams at SXSW. "Mine was interesting." "In short, the Twitterati in the audience thought our hourlong chat was about as...

The co-founders of Twitter Inc., the 4-year-old San Francisco Internet sensation, spoke about its whirlwind past and its plans for the future at its inaugural developers conference, Chirp, in San Francisco on Wednesday. Biz Stone and Evan Williams took...