Twitter Now Serves 350+ Billion Tweets Per Day.

Google’s two week old Google+ social networking service is certainly proving impressive given it’s 10,000,000+ users now signed up as is the 1+ billion daily shared items. But it is Twitter who takes the cake — by a long shot — with a new tweet today claiming the company serves up over 350 billion tweets every single day. Wow.

Google Real-Time Search Deal Powered By Twitter Expires.

We were getting pretty settled in with seeing real-time updates alongside more traditional search results in Google over the past month. While the results weren’t too terribly useful all that often, it often led us onto more adventurous quests across the web. But no more. Google’s licensing agreement with Twitter to pull real-time tweets has expired today, July 5th, 2011.

[Update] Twitter 2.0 For Android Demoed. Looks Awesome!

Android, like iOS, has a slew of Twitter apps to choose from. But the obvious choice for “most complete” or “best” app doesn’t fall on the official Twitter app. In fact, it’s one of the worst and never been a favorite here at GS. But that looks like it’s about to change because Twitter 2.0 for Android looks…awesome. The UI is heavily redesigned and now looks exponentially better. As for new features, we’re not too sure yet exactly what is or isn’t on the table. Also unfortunate is that we don’t have a release date to share with you either nor a timeline of when we might see Twitter 2.0 drop.

But in the meantime, hop inside for a hands-on video running through the upcoming Twitter 2.0 Android app…

Update

Twitter 2.0 for Android now available in Android Market.

TweetMag for iPad Turns Twitter into One Beautiful Magazine. #ipad #tweetmag

There may be many, many Twitter apps already available for the iPad, but TweetMag aims to be different — and different it is. The main gist here, as you can tell, is design. Specifically, TweetMag takes all of your links within Twitter and wraps them up in a nicely packaged, slick magazine interface. There’s a few graphical bugs here and there, but it’s certainly better than most anything else and on a version 1.0 no less.

At $4.99, TweetMag is far from “expensive”, meaning plenty of design-centric iPad users won’t have to worry about taking the plunge coming to regret it later. It’s five bucks. With that said, if you don’t like the whole magazine layout, then TweetMag is nothing special. But don’t judge this Twitter app by its magazine cover. You’ll just have to try it out for the final verdict. Get it now in the App Store.

Paul Chambers Found Guilty For Menacing Tweet Claiming to Bomb an Airport. Fined £3,600. #twitterjoketrial

Earlier in the year, Paul Chambers (@pauljchambers found himself sitting at Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire, grounded because of snow. In his frustrations, he shot off a quick tweet saying “Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!” Now obviously, that wasn’t the best course of action given the touchy state the world is in these days in regards to bombs and public modes of transportation. But a “serious” threat…?

Out with the old, in with the new: Public Twitter booths.

Finding a public cellphone is pretty much analogous to finding a needle in a haystack these days. In the age of the cellphone, the need to deposit a few quarters for a few minutes of talk-time seems downright laughable. But would you pay a small fee to tweet in public if the particular mobile device you carry didn’t have the capability?

Some say dumb. I say awesome.

“TweetDark” theme adds Touch Wiz flare to TweetDeck Android app.

TweetDeck for Android is hands down one of the best looking Twitter clients for the platform. I’ve got a thing for dark, matte, simple UI’s. To that effect, TweetDeck for Android tickles me fancily. But for some, it may not be dark enough. If you haven’t got the want or the ability to theme TweetDeck yourself, the fine folks at WJD Designs do.

Those rockin’ a Samsung device will find that this TweetDeck theme closely resembles the Touch Wiz interface with it’s generous helping of blue hues. Personally, I prefer the stock TweetDeck color scheme a bit more. The dark greys and blacks are slick. I’m not to take credit away from the designers though. It’s just not my cup of tea. But therein lies one of the strengths of Android — if you don’t like it, change it.

Get to it: Download “TweetDark” from WJD Designs.

Whoops: HTC forgot to update bundled Twitter app. Rendered useless by new OAuth protocol.

Looks like HTC users who use the bundled Twitter app have a bit of a sour pill to swallow this morning. As they promised late last week, Twitter’s authentication protocol is now entirely OAuth protected. All that means is apps that don’t support the spec will now be rendered useless (see exhibit A, above).

In HTC’s case, it looks like no one took the time to do push out a quick update. As such, “Incorrect username/password” errors are flooding the market. With as popular as Twitter is, I don’t see HTC taking too long to do something about this. Then again, we have to ask how many people are actually using the bundled HTC Twitter app — are you?

TweetDeck for Android now available!

Today is the day Android social butterflies have been waiting for. TweetDeck is now available! A quick recap in case you forgot, TweetDeck offers integration with several social accounts including Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, and Google Buzz. The layout is simple, clean, yet intuitive, using columns to navigate between accounts and types of messages. So far, my favorite aspect is the unified inbox of sorts that put all of your status updates in a single view, ensuring you don’t have to waste time jumping from account to account. Overall, TweetDeck for Android looks slick and performs well. And all of this from a beta. Head over to TweetDeck’s site, sign in with your TweetDeck login, and follow the prompts to get the goodness on your Android phone. **Android 2.0+ required!

TweetDeck — Come and get it!