Twitter Service Is Down (video)

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[UPDATE 3:11pm PT: Twitter service is back in working order. ]

Twitter is currently down, but engineers are trying to fix the issue.

"Users may be experience some issues with our service; our engineers are currently working on this issue," Twitter wrote. 

When you visit Twitter.com, the site reads, "Something is technically wrong." Tweeting from TweetDeck, however, does seem to work. 

The International Business Times reports that Twitter has been...

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Gmail for iOS Adds Scribbles Drawing Tool, Custom Signatures

If you have ever wanted to send an email with just doodles or scribbles, now you can with the Gmail app for iOS and Gmail for mobile devices. 

"In the Gmail app and Gmail for mobile you can now open up a canvas and scribble a message that will be attached to your email," the Gmail blog states. "It's perfect for sending a quick sketch that is hard to express in words or adding a fun graphic to make your email more personal."
 
Scribbles offers 10 different colors, three brush sizes, lines, erasers and spray paint.

As The Next Web notes, "you can now have arts and crafts time inside of your Gmail app."

As part of the update, you can also set a custom signature for...

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Google+ Integrates Hangouts In-Stream, Opens 'On Air' to More Users

Google+ users can now hangout from any post and even better, broadcast and record their Hangout to watch later on YouTube.

As part of Google+'s effort to go "beyond the status update," the social network added a Hangout button underneath every post. When you click Hangout, Google+ will add an invitation to the comments stream.

Google+ is also opening the On Air feature to hundreds of more public figures, celebrities and other users with a large following on Google+. By integrating with YouTube, Google+...

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Twilio Launches SMS API in Canada. Cool, Eh?

VoIP service Twilio just launched a Canadian SMS API to let developers build apps that send and receive text messages through Canada-based phone numbers.
 
SMS for existing Canadian Twilio users is effective immediately. Until now, only customers in the U.S. could use Twilio to send and receive text messages.

Twilio raised $17M in Series C funding from Bessemer and Union Square Ventures earlier this month to...

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Watch TWiST Paris Meetup Episode #214 Today at 1pm PT

Tune in for a special episode of This Week in Startups to see pitches from the recent Paris Meetup. Host Jason Calacanis and co-host Tyler Crowley traveled to the City of Lights where organizer Kirsten Winkler brought three companies to share their visions.

Hear pitches from LifeShow, where anyone can publish photos to TV and tablets...

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