Therese Poletti's Tech Tales

CARLSBAD, Calif. (MarketWatch) - The two co-founders of the San Francisco start-up Twitter managed to evade most questions at the All Things Digital conference about how the micro-blogging company will generate revenue, charming many in the audience and befuddling others.

The founders of the Startup of the Moment also seem staunchly committed to keeping the company independent, even after reportedly receiving offers from the hot social-networking company Facebook and Google Inc. (GOOG) They are also focused on making the popular service, which has suffered outages amid its heady growth, more robust.

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