“Our US Twitter.com growth has slowed temporarily and there are some things we will be launching that we think will pick that back up,” Williams said.

While Twitter’s growth has slowed, it is still growing. And with Twitter reportedly in talks Microsoft and Google about licensing Twitter data feeds, they may find the business model they have been searching for to generate revenue.

But I found this quote most interesting:

“The number of interesting things we can do with Twitter is just endless,” Williams said during an on-stage chat with John Battelle on the opening day of a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. “It just blows my mind.”

I agree with Williams that people are just now starting to discover many of the ways to use Twitter. Stay tuned in the coming months as Revere will be launching some new projects that are heavily using Twitter.

According to the survey, which ran in mid-September 2009, 45 percent of small-business owners have Twitter or Facebook accounts. That’s astonishing considering that today only 44 percent of all small businesses have websites, according to some surveys. Remember, the Internet is over a decade old, but social media is really only two to three years old, if that.

And it just isn’t small companies. Take Skittles for example. Their entire site is nothing more than a Twitter feed of people talking about Skittles.

Social media is low-cost, easy to use and has the added benefit that it is viral by nature – it is ‘social’ media after all. And as the article points out, social media is only 2 to 3 years old. And as more users come up with new and creative ways to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to market their products, more and more organizations – both big and small – will turn to social media to promote themselves.

The Internet has transformed our daily lives in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. From e-mail to Internet phone service, cell phones and social networking, the Internet has changed the way we shop, network, find information, manage finances, schedule our lives and even the way we communicate.

And while the Internet offers us many benefits — and promises to give us more mobility, choices and flexibility — many consumers are growing concerned about their privacy online.

I believe that the best solutions to the public policy issues effecting the technology industry are best solved when consumers, technology companies and regulators work together on

No law or government regulation will solve all privacy and security concerns. Technology companies need to continue to offer marketplace solutions and, most importantly, consumers need to protect themselves…

The primary restriction of the policy is expected to prevent various team representatives from tweeting during games, after the stir caused late last season when Detroit Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva, then with Milwaukee, tweeted from the Bucks’ locker room during halftime.

While the NBA is imposing what it calls”minimal” guidelines, should they really have to put a policy in place? For many players, coaches and officials, Twitter acts as another media outlet.

I believe Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has the right response. When talking about Twitter he said:

I will talk to the guys about never venting or talking about team business on Twitter. That’s usually what creates problems. [But] Twitter is just another form of media. What you say on Twitter is like saying it on ESPN.