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Since its redesign last September, Twitter has said time and again that the site is not just for those who Tweet, but for those who consume. To that end, the company has worked to make it easier and easier for new users to find information related to their interests, with features like the "who to follow" page. Today, Twitter announced another feature to help onboard new users - search that makes it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on interest.

The improved search comes alongside another new feature - the advanced search page - which takes the various operators that have always been available to Twitter users and makes them easily accessible in a Web form.

Pop singers Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber visited Internet singing sensation Rebecca Black at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco today for Google, on behalf of Facebook. Indicating the social media is seldom seen so tranquilizer freedom, Bieber indicated his Lady Gaga fans held up Twitter as the most frequently Googled site from Facebook.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg applauded the concatenation.

"Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber performed Rebecca Black's song at our campus and I Twittered it on Google."

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When Twitter rolled out an update to its iPhone app earlier this month, it included a new feature that quickly became the bane of most upgraders' experience. The QuickBar permanently hovered at the top of your tweet-stream, giving you a real-time update of trending topics.

After resoundingly negative feedback that included the new label by which we now refer to the feature - the DickBar (named after Twitter CEO Dick Costolo) - Twitter made some tweaks so that the feature didn't always appear. And now - rejoice - Twitter has killed the feature altogether, announcing that an update available in the App Store today will return your official Twitter iPhone app to its DickBar-less state.

Until now, there has been no quick and simple way to embed a functional Tweet in a blog post. That is, most of us bloggers simply took a quick screenshot, uploaded the image and used that, meaning that users were left looking at the picture of functionality without any of the benefits - they couldn't follow, retweet, reply or favorite a thing.

Today, Twitter has released a new set of developer tools that will make it easier for bloggers and others alike to embed fully-functional Tweets on the Web, with WordPress leading the pack.

While Twitter's "days of imminent technical meltdown" may be in the past, the company has run into a host of other troubles in recent months. As a part of its efforts to monetize and stabilize its once shaky servers, the company has sent signal after signal that developers should watch where they stand, lest they be squashed in future developments. The effect has been one of creating a great deal of fear, uncertainty and doubt amongst those - the developers, founders and CEOs - who have elevated Twitter to the height it enjoys today.

This week, however, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced his return and these self-same members of the Twitter ecosystem have renewed hope that they and Twitter could work together again.

If there was any room left for speculation left, let it be clear - Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has decided to further "scale back" his role at the company. Reports came out a month ago that the former CEO had been rather absent from the halls of the company's headquarters in San Francisco and today Williams confirmed his lessening role.

Why is Williams making the move? He says that Twitter is in "capable hands that aren't [his]" and that he's ready to move on to the next big thing.

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• I HAZ LINKROT?!? On the Etiquette of Internet Citations: http://bit.ly/ffzR0d via @mikethemadbiol

The third annual Shorty Awards are happening in New York City tonight and the event is a great way to learn about some of the most effective ways that people and companies are using Twitter. We've got a video player embedded below to watch the show and we've got one Twitter list of all the winners you can follow in one place, here: Shorty Awards 2011 Winners.

We covered the nature and background of the Shorty Awards leading up to last year's event. Awards winners are selected through a combination of popular vote and an expert panel of judges. Thousands of people have been watching tonight's show live, you can join them below.

The rumors have been circulating for the past week, and two tweets have just confirmed it: Jack Dorsey is returning to the company he co-founded to take charge of Twitter's product development.

CEO Dick Costolo and Dorsey himself both tweeted the news, announcing Dorsey's return to the company on a day-to-day basis. Dorsey will become Executive Chairman, according to their messages. It's not the title of Chief Product Officer, that some have assumed he'd take, but that does appear to be the role he'll be filling.