Favstar

Favstar

Website	Favstar.fm
Alexa rank	6,451 (April 2014)^[1]
Launched	July, 2009^[2]

Favstar (also known as favstar.fm) is an online service that tracks Twitter and Twitter usage. Favstar uses data from user "favorites" - or when a Twitter post is bookmarked (starred) by individual users.^[3] As posts, or tweets, are given more stars, specific posts move up in rankings according to different criteria, including recent posts, newer posts, and all-time favorites.

References

↑ "Favstar.fm Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
↑ "Favstar.fm Makes The Twitter "Favorite" Less Of An Unwanted Step-Child". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
↑ "Favstar.fm - Frequently Asked Questions and Answers". Retrieved 13 April 2013.

Twitter

Clients	Services and applications Favstar Gnip Hootsuite Pwytter Seesmic SimplyTweet Tween Tweetbot TweetDeck Tweetie Twimight Twitdom TwitPic Twitterrific

Executives	Jack Dorsey (CEO) Anthony Noto (CFO) Katie Jacobs Stanton (VP) Gabriel Stricker (CCO)

Board	Omid Kordestani (Executive Chairman) Jack Dorsey (interim CEO) Peter Chernin Peter Currie Peter Fenton Evan Williams Marjorie Scardino

Software	FlockDB Meerkat MySQL Periscope Starling Vine

Mergers and acquisitions	BackType Bluefin Labs Dasient Gnip Mitro Namo Media Posterous Summify Trendrr TweetDeck Tweetie Vine Whisper Systems

Other	Black Twitter Censorship Shorty Awards Twitter bomb Twitter usage by public figures Topsy Labs

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