Twitter said it has fully resolved an issue with a delay in tweets appearing on users' timelines from 1651 PST to 1830 PST on Monday (from 0051 GMT to 0230 GMT Tuesday).

Users of Twitter, whose main service allows broadcast of 140-character messages, were facing a delay of 25 minutes to 45 minutes.

"We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this," Twitter said on its website late on Monday.

 

Have you ever woken up full of regret about the messages you sent the night before? A new smartphone app could help! Seattle-based startup Be Labs has announced the successful completion of beta testing for Strings, a new messaging app that gives users complete control over their personal conversations.

Strings is a refreshing new way for users to share information with exactly who they want and even take it back, the company said. The app combines granular control over who sees what with multi-conversation context and rich media to create a simple and intuitive way to have interactive, personal conversations.

Control starts with allowing users to easily select who to start conversations with. Users can add or remove people at any time. Each "string" is a unique conversation, making it possible to have multiple conversations with the same people about different topics.

Strings also allows users to fluidly incorporate rich media, including unlimited-length videos and high-resolution photos, into their conversations. Users always maintain the ability to delete a string of conversation at any time. Once deleted, the string and all its associated content is removed from every users' phone and from the Strings servers — immediately and permanently.

Back in a day, we reported that messaging app Snapchat* was lifting over $100 million in a turn led by Kleiner Perkins. And afterwards a WSJ reported that it was $20 million, that left us wondering because a expansion turn would be so tiny in terms of sum principle. Well, it turns out it’s not.

Snapchat has lifted a most bigger amount: Nearly $500 million in aggregate, according to an SEC filing that it slipped out as a a operative day for New Years Eve was sketch to a close. The filing notes that 23 investors took part, nonetheless it’s not transparent from a SEC request who led a round.

Here is what happened, according to a sources: Snapchat creatively set out to lift $40 million, yet direct for a turn skyrocketed, and it motionless to fire for an desirous $900 million instead. When that didn’t work out, it dialled it behind to $500 million. Rumor has it that Kleiner is leading this latest round, with GIC, Yahoo and maybe wildcards Aug Capital participating. Portions of that, such as a Yahoo partial of a fundraise, sealed some time ago. The SEC filing records that a date of initial sale was in Apr 2014.

We’ve also listened that a stream post income gratefulness is $20 billion, nonetheless others have doubtful this and pronounced it’s closer to $10 billion.

The income is much-needed. One source pronounced that Snapchat has an over $30 million-per-year bake rate, and pays half of that to Google Apps Engine to horde all a photos, yet this series seems low to us. Another remarkable that during one indicate a association was profitable $3 million any month in authorised fees alone. Snapchat’s had a share of lawsuits.

Alibaba was a strange lead on that turn as Re/Code (nee AllThingsD) reported. According to a source, a Alibaba position was afterwards punted to Yahoo, that put in $20 million of a possess income on palm post a Alibaba IPO. We’ve also heard that Yahoo has indeed put in some-more than this yet have been incompetent to uphold that over a $20 million close.

The means of a numerical ups and downs of Snapchat’s fundraising is a company’s singular spin on financing, that works on a “rolling” basis, from how one source describes it.

Snapchat is engaging in that they mangle a conventions of normal fundraising, one source tells us. Traditionally an businessman will set out to lift a turn for a specified volume of money, and afterwards we get meddlesome investors on a same page formed on an concluded gratefulness and afterwards we tighten it. Spiegel does this rather differently. “He goes after particular investors during opposite valuations. It’s a rolling investment and a rolling close. In speculation we could contend he’s already finished 40 rounds.” (40 is likely figurative rather than literal.)

What this means is that, if it’s true, afterwards yes, Snapchat might have lifted scarcely $500 million in a final 6 months. Of that $500 million, it might be that usually 75% of it is closed, and with portions during opposite valuations, some removing in pre-$10-billion, like Yahoo, and some above it and closer to $20 billion.

The proof for a high gratefulness is interesting, too, and points to some of a large hopes Snapchat and a investors have for a app. The final reported series of active monthly users of a fleeting summary app was 100 million behind in Aug 2014, yet things are relocating fast. From what we know a MAU number is now coming 200 million users. The association in May 2014 reported 700 million photos sent per day on a app, with 500 million Snapchat Stories.

Among a company’s revenue-generating services are sponsored Our Stories, which launched in November. There have also been engaging appearances from companies like Amazon regulating a height to send disintegrating deals to users, and while Snapchat and Amazon might be talking, a e-commerce hulk is not among a list of investors during a moment, says a source.

*Disclosure: Alexia’s SO’s VC organisation is an financier in Snapchat.
source: infoclose

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