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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has revealed what went on when he and fellow co-founder Evan Williams met Mark Zuckerberg. The trio met at the Facebook offices when Mark Zuckerberg was toying with making an offer to buy Twitter but the talks were hampered by a lack of chemistry.

Interviewed by NPR, Stone agreed with host Peter Sagal when he compared the Facebook CEO to a Vulcan and declared that during the meeting “every joke I said landed like a dead fish on the ground”. Read on for the full story and to decide whether Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have a sense of humour or Biz Stone just isn’t that funny…

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So Twitter has a score for you. And you. And that guy over there. At Web 2.0, Evan Williams revealed that the Who To Follow recommendations on Twitter are based on secret reputation scores which each user gets. According to Ev, Twitter’s “science and math people” (it’s MATHS, Ev) have systems to generate the Who To Follow algorithm and that uses the secret reputation score. He wouldn’t reveal exactly how the Twitter reputation score is generated but suggested it might go public eventually but “it has to evolve more” first. Do you want to know what your Twitter reputation score is? Click the headline and hit the comments.

Out now | £free | Twitter (via TechCrunch)

Twitter has bought Tweetie, the popular Twitter iPhone app. The current version, Tweetie 2, will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and have its price dropped from £1.79 to free. Twitter for iPhone will be followed by a Twitter for iPad app created by the creator of Tweetie. Will Twitter for iPhone knock out apps like Tweetdeck and Seesmic to become the ultimate Twitter app?

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Twitter looks set to give its web interface a serious overhaul, at least according to a flurry of tweets from Twitter engineer Alex Payne and rumour mongering from perennial web big mouth Jason Calacanis.

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Twitter users are abnormal, according to Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams. Was he being flattering or simply slapping Twitter users in the face? Find out after the break.

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