Twitter chief in NY with Kindle, but not for Amazon event, he says

With all the buzz around Amazon's big press conference in New York Wednesday -- where the company is expected to unveil a new larger-screen Kindle -- I found it intriguing that Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has just arrived in New York, with his own personal Kindle in tow. When I asked him if he's taking part in the Amazon event, however, Stone wrote back via e-mail, "No, I'm here for other business."

Dang, so much for our big scoop on a Kindle-Twitter linkup. Well, maybe we shouldn't give up on it just yet.

Stone made a point about tweeting about his Kindle Sunday, writing: "Loaded my Kindle for flight to NYC tomorrow—can I resist the movies and games on Virgin America or FlightControl on iPhone?" He just tweeted about landing in New York.

The reports about Amazon's Wednesday press conference have focused on how the new larger screen Kindle is tailored for reading newspapers and magazines and college textbooks. Popular microblogging service Twitter would certainly be an interesting feature as well.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is expected to lead the Wednesday event, is a personal investor in Twitter. Twitter is also a customer of Amazon's S3 cloud computing service.

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