Twitter, the start-up is set to make Twitter the huge company, with more zeal, rivalry and certainly profits.

Claire Cain Miller writes in The New York Times that at the conference held in San Francisco, dubbed Chirp, Twitter declared various new features, which will make it more helpful, as well as geo-location services, a catalog of locations and extra metadata for posts. It also provided details regarding @anywhere, a new service, which allows people gain access to Twitter from elsewhere on the Web.

These new aspects are said to enlarge Twitter’s reach, but it also pits the company against other popular Web companies, including Facebook and Foursquare.

Jeremiah Owyang, a Partner at Altimeter Group, a Digital Strategy Consulting Firm said, “They’ve gone from a data play to a platform play. You’re seeing the same behavior that Facebook, Google and other online communities have done. This is a natural evolution of a Web company”.

As proof of its expansion, Twitter disclosed some earlier unrevealed figures. It boasts of 106 million registered users and is adding new users at the rate of 300,000 everyday. Those consumers write 55 million daily tweets, while
180 million people access Twitter. com every month to read them.

People on Twitter will now be able to disclose exactly where they are. They will be able to seek a particular place, such as a concert hall or hotel, and read all the tweets written from that location.