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Today at Twitter’s Chirp conference in San Francisco, CA, Twitter CEO Evan Williams took the stage for the keynote presentation to discuss Twitter’s recent acquisitions, the company’s new revenue model, and some of its new products being revealed today.

This is the year that Twitter is slated to start monetizing in a big way.

Along those lines, the company has just hired a Chief Financial Officer by way of Pixar Animation Studios.

Twitter apps can do almost everything that Twitter.com can: search Twitter, follow and unfollow users, and even manage Twitter lists (well, only a few apps so far).

Last night, we reported that Twitter CEO Evan Williams’ (@ev) wife Sara (@sara) was in labor, a story we’ve naturally been tracking via Twitter.

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