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Q: Who was the Senior Wireless UI Designer that recently left Samsung Design Europe to join our team at Twitter HQ here in sunny San Francisco?
A: Ben Fullerton!

Samsung's loss is our gain. Today is Ben's first official day as Twitter Interaction Designer.

Check out Overheard.it! The most popular word to track on Twitter is "overheard" so this new project by the folks who brought you Snitter is going to be interesting to watch. Here's how it works in their own words:

Overheard.it is a fun site that pulls in all the fun things people overhear on Twitter. The site was thought of, designed and built by the fine folks at Sidebar Creative.

You can interact with Overheard.it a few different ways. If your Twitter updates are unprotected, you can start your update with the word "overheard" and it will show up on the site. Follow @overheard and you can preface your updates with OH or overheard. Finally, you can submit anonymous updates by sending a direct message to .

I'm not sure if it's accidental or some kind of Twitter Contagion when this sort of thing happens. Willo mentions soup which makes me think of the soup I just had from Whole Foods which makes buzz think about Whole Foods' beer selection.

As Biz stated a couple posts back, Twitter is growing! We're constantly looking for amazing people to join our team in San Francisco. Interested in building out Twitter's business relationships? Have experience negotiating with mobile operators, here and abroad? Check this out:

International Business Development Manager

Twitter is seeking a Business Development Manager who is focused on bringing Twitter's potential to mobile and IM operators the world over. You'll be tasked with building and maintaining strategic partner relationships and dedicated to producing results in the form of cost-reduction, localized promotion, and revenue.

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and building a pipeline of prospects
• Negotiating and closing deals (term sheets, contracts)
• Managing relationships
• Interfacing with multiple functional groups within Twitter (e.g. marketing and engineering) to successfully harvest relationships.

Requirements:

• Experience in international business development
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to develop strong working relationships
• Extensive knowledge of mobile operator business models, utility services, and consumer Internet technology
• Extensive negotiation and closing experience (including legal aspects)
• Ability to meet multiple objectives in an entrepreneurial environment with little supervision
• Prior experience working with mobile operators is a must
• Prior experience working in a startup technology company preferred
• International travel necessary
• Fluency in multiple languages is a plus
• BA or BS degree (MBA preferred)
• Located in San Francisco

See yourself (or someone you know) here? Join us!

It's interesting to watch as the Replies feature on Twitter evolves. This feature was not originally part of Twitter until people started doing it. Then we began linking the updates together and enough people started using it that requests for specific levels of control began rolling in. We received enough feedback from folks who enjoy using the @replies feature to create a new setting.
Essentially, we've added more control to the @replies setting on Twitter. Head on over to Settings > Notices if you want to tune the level of incoming @replies you receive. There's also a help article about the @reply settings if you want to learn more.

Aaron Gong has been quietly helping us get things done here at Twitter HQ as Office Manager since October. He's also chipping in with support emails and helping schedule meetings for the illustrious Mr. Dorsey. The Twitter team is growing—a belated welcome blog post to Aaron Gong!

We've just restarted the Twitter database which may have caused slowness and in some cases prevented folks from getting to the web site. The interruption is over with now but that's what it was in case you were wondering.

The Guardian asked Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the Internet and current Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, to tell readers what the future holds. That's easy: Twitter!

Twitter has emerged to create a seamless layer of social connectivity across SMS, IM, and the web...The potential for this simple form of hybrid communication technology is strong.

Cerf believes Twitter to be one of the most exciting areas of development on the web. That's exciting to us. Read the article here: Tell me the future | Media | The Guardian.

Alex takes a tour of Twitter apps that might help unclutter your life: "Working on Twitter, I see all sorts of interesting uses of our service. Twitter is a great way to keep up with friends and family, but it can also be a great way to keep up with everything going on in your life without cluttering things up with sticky notes, emails, and other junk. Clever developers have come up with extensions to Twitter’s functionality purpose–built for notes, events, reminders, and even whom you owe a beer to."

We're not sure exactly what he means but Anil Dash has just asserted that he has won at Twitter. Congratulations Anil!

If you browse the mobile web on your phone you might like to check out m.twitter.com. We added a couple features.

1. Find Folks (people search)
2. Join (we didn't have this before)

The picture above approximates the look of people search results on a Sony Ericsson k750i.