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While it’s too early to tell exactly what this means, Facebook engineer Blake Ross today posted a “test” tweet from a Twitter application called “Penguin FB” that resides on Facebook development servers. One interesting possibility: Facebook is working on a new, more native Twitter integration that would let users publish updates to Twitter automatically from Facebook. If that is indeed the case, it would be an interesting move by Facebook. Allowing users to more easily link their Facebook updates with other services like Twitter could potentially make Facebook one of the largest Twitter applications. If only a few million Facebook users were to publish their status updates to Twitter, Facebook could become the largest source of tweets - an interesting inversion of the way Twitter is used as a Facebook application by many users today. Of course, all of this is still speculation. When contacted, Facebook said it doesn’t have any comment on the “Penguin FB” project. (Update: Ross has si

Twitter has reportedly been valued by investors at $1 billion with Oprah Winfrey on board the twitter ship. A high-profile D conference was set yesterday with the company's (Twitter) founders. So it's odd they seem to see their own product as a repository for jokes about cleavage, bird shit and killing Jason Calacanis. There were many comments about twitter as many would write that twitter is just another social networking site. Some would like to post their impressions or products so that users or any web paparazzi can get a hold of the real score. Nonetheless, we quote some of what the users think of twitter. Twitter allows its users to mark some tweets they find particularly amusing, insightful, witty, informative, or whatever as "favorites." But this may also mean that rifling through the founders' favorites is a pretty good way to get a sense of what they think Twitter is good for: crude jokes and narcissistic status updates. Below is a sample of the tweets f

The web is abuzz today with talk of a “Twitter TV show.” Lots of folks are asking if they can audition. Indeed, there are a lot of interesting developments happening in the television space—MTV, G4, CNN, E! and various independent production companies. Start your own twitter today and know why it has reached Hollywood.