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Nouvelle saveur : Twitter en Français!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:21 GMT

Avec l'ajout de la version espagnole du site le mois dernier, de nombreuses personnes ont rejoint les conversations sur Twitter. De plus en plus de personnes twittent en dehors des États-Unis et nous sommes à présent en mesure d'accueillir les utilisateurs de près de 30 pays francophones. Il est maintenant possible de changer les paramètres de langue en français grâce à la participation des traducteurs qui ont contribué à transformer Twitter en une plate-forme de communication véritablement mondiale.

Les twitteurs français peuvent d'ors et déjà suivre des personnes et des sociétés qui leur sont familières. Que vous fréquentiez @lepicerie ou @lopera pour vos sorties gastronomiques, que vous lisiez @LeMondeFR en allant au travail ou que vous écoutiez @theteenagers sur le chemin du retour ou encore que vous soyez fan des @CanadiensMTL, il y a une multitude d'informations utiles à découvrir à tout moment.

Pour voir Twitter en français, il suffit de consulter vos paramètres et sélectionner "français" dans le menu déroulant.

Une dernière chose : une partie de l'équipe Twitter sera à Paris les 9 et 10 decembré pour la conférence Le Web, présentée par @loic. Les spécialistes de notre plate-forme, Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) et Marcel Molina (@noradio) y présenteront, entre autres choses, une session développeurs. Si vous êtes dans la région ces jours-là, n'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre!

Think Globally, Tweet Locally

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:48 GMT

In August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.

This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro and others are already supporting this new functionality (go try them out now!) in interesting ways that include geotagging your tweets and displaying the location from where a tweet was posted. The added information provides valuable context when reading your friends tweets and allows you to better focus in on local conversations. Now you can find out what live music is playing right now in your neighborhood or what people visiting Checkpoint Charlie are saying today about the anniversary of the Berlin Wall. These are only the beginning and we are really looking forward to seeing the creative uses emerge from the developer community.

It's important to note geotagging is disabled by default for all users which means you will need to opt-in in order to use it. To activate the new geotagging functionality, go to your Settings page and click "Enable Geotagging".

Refreshed Privacy Policy

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:46 GMT

As part of rolling out geotagging today we've updated our privacy policy to explicitly include geotagging and to describe the public nature of most of what people post to Twitter. We've tried to keep it short and sweet with lots of real life examples so it's simple to read through. We'll also be letting people know about the new policy via email and @twitter.

Please give the new policy a read and contact us at privacy@twitter.com if you have comments or suggestions.

What's Happening?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:47 GMT

Twitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, "What are you doing?" However, when we implemented the service, we chose to leave something out. To stay simple, Twitter did not require individuals to confirm relationships. Instead, we left things open.

People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature of the network to share anything they wanted, completely ignoring the original question, seemingly on a quest to both ask and answer a different, more immediate question, "What's happening?" A simple text input field limited to 140 characters of text was all it took for creativity and ingenuity to thrive.

Sure, someone in San Francisco may be answering "What are you doing?" with "Enjoying an excellent cup of coffee," at this very moment. However, a birds-eye view of Twitter reveals that it's not exclusively about these personal musings. Between those cups of coffee, people are witnessing accidents, organizing events, sharing links, breaking news, reporting stuff their dad says, and so much more.

The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore—starting today, we've shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, "What's happening?"

We don't expect this to change how anyone uses Twitter, but maybe it'll make it easier to explain to your dad.

Announcing: Digg Dialogg with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:08 GMT

Hey everyone –

I'm excited to announce that our next guest for Digg Dialogg is Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD, will be sitting down and asking him your top questions. From today through next Tuesday, November 24th at 10am ET, you can submit and Digg questions; the top ones will be asked in the Dialogg.

This is an especially timely interview given the FCC's recent statement in support of Net Neutrality as well as their work to make broadband universally accessible. Be sure to check back here on Wednesday, December 2nd to catch the full interview.

Don't forget to submit & Digg your questions now!

Thanks,
Kevin

The latest ‘Updates'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:30 GMT

Since adding Yahoo! account support last month we’ve been working hard to increase the integration and start offering more Yahoo! features. New users will automatically share their public content with Yahoo! Updates as well as Delicious, so even more of your friends will get to see the great content you’re saving with the Delicious community. For those of you with Yahoo! accounts, you can go to Settings>Manage Account and enable the sharing functionality with the ‘Manage who sees your Updates’ link on Y! Updates.

For those of you that had a Delicious account and a Yahoo! account (like the whole Delicious team), we’ve added the ability to replace your Delicious login with your Yahoo! account. Go to Settings and select the new ‘Merge with Yahoo! account’ option to stop using your old Delicious credentials and instead sign in with your Yahoo! ID. Don’t worry, the link to get to your content won’t change. If delicious.com/i_am_awesome was your link before, it will still be your link after.

Enjoy!

WordPress Wins CMS Award

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:48 GMT

I was very excited last week to learn that WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for us, as it is the first time we've won this award, and it marks a shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more than 23,000 votes across five categories.

As Hiro Nakamura said when he first bent time and space to land in Times Square: “Yatta!”

In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category. This is significant because we weren't even in the top 5 last year, and now we're #2, ahead of Joomla! As is stated on the Award site, “WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.”

Every day thousands of new people are embracing WordPress to power not just their blogs but entire sites and communities without compromising on usability or scalability (as would be the case with a legacy CMS). Every member of the WordPress community, from core developer to beginning user, should be proud to be part of this momentum: congratulations to us all!

Core Contributors at WordCamp NYC

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:14 GMT

WordCamp NYC was last weekend, and it was crazy awesome to have so many WordPress users and developers together in one place (final numbers to come, but looks like over 700). One of my favorite moments was right at the end, when someone suggested getting a picture of the core contributors (I'd asked them all to stand so people could applaud them when we were doing the closing remarks). Some of them were camera shy and kept out of the happysnap, but here's a handful of the people who make WordPress what it is.

From left: Matt Martz (sivel), Jeremy Clarke, Shane Froebel (^BuGs^), Jane Wells, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Jaquith, Beau Lebens, Andy Peatling, John James Jacoby (jjj).
Photo by Chris Cochran.

Another First in the UK

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:36 GMT

The UK has had an outsized cultural impact on the world. From music to sports to literature... and now – MMS with Twitter.

Today, not only has Orange UK turned on Twitter SMS, but it has added a first-of-its-kind special enhancement. Orange UK users can also send picture messages (MMS) to 86444 in addition to text messages because of a site that Orange UK has created called Snapshot. The best part is that it is incredibly simple to use:

Take a photo on your Orange mobile phone
Select 'Send via MMS' or 'Send multimedia message'
Send it to 86444

Twitter does not charge for this service. It's just like sending and receiving messages with your friends — your carrier's standard messaging rates apply. Give it a try by sending a text message to 86444 with the word "START." This means that with the same shortcode, 86444, UK users can tweet via SMS with Vodafone, O2, and now Orange.

WordPress 2.8.6 Security Release

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:17 GMT

2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.

The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding and reporting these.

Get WordPress 2.8.6.