Zuckerberg and his great visionary ability we have spoken several times, keeping track of innovations and of the manyfeatures that were made almost every month from the most popular Social Network in the world. The one where we never thought enough was a general picture of those who over the …
Read More »Facebooks hits 500 million users
According to PC World, social networking site Facebook now has half a billion users. To put in perspective, only China and India have more people than Facebook has users. Statistics posted by the news site reveal that 35.4% of North Americans and 17% of Europeans log onto Facebook every month. …
Read More »Twitter to open Utah data center later this year
To help keep up with ever-increasing traffic, Twitter is set to open up a new custom-built data center in Utah later this year. Considering 300,000 new Twitter users log on every day, the site desperately needs to expand its capacity. The data center is being built especially for Twitter’s needs. …
Read More »World Cup Final was most-Tweeted event ever
Twitter announced yesterday that World Cup Final on July 11 marked the highest period of activity in the site’s history. During the last fifteen minutes of the match, Twitter users sent out more than 2,000 Tweets per second. This number jumped to 3,051 when Spain scored its winning goal. The …
Read More »Twitter has 99.1% uptime for June
According to uptime service monitor Pingdom, social networking site Twitter had a June uptime figure of 99.17%. Although this sounds high, it is actually low by industry standards, especially for a large site like Twitter with so many resources at its disposal. The 0.83% downtime figure equates to 5 hours …
Read More »Pakistan Facebook ban lifted
After protests over images of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad were posted on a Facebook page, the Pakistani government had banned access to the social networking site. The ban has since been lifted on the material, deemed offensive to Muslims, having been removed. The incident sparks questions, though, over just how the …
Read More »The internet and the third world: NGO blogging and tweeting from Bangladesh
ActionAid is running a blogging and tweeting educational campaign for the third world, teaching people in poor communities how to use social media to tell their stories through .org sites. The project is called TOTO and is an ActionAid Australia initiative which puts bloggers in poor communities for one to …
Read More »Facebook social networking king according to Google
Figures recently released indicate that Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world, outstripping competitors and flying in the face of privacy concerns surrounding the social networking phenomenon. According to Google figures, Facebook now enjoys visits from more than 35 percent of the internet population, amounting to …
Read More »Facebook initiates dispute over Facebook.me
Facebook has filed a dispute with the WIPO over the domain Facebook.me, which is currently owned by UAE citizen Amjad Abbas. This is just one of many ccTLDs the site has gone after lately. Interestingly, the name’s current owner has it redirecting to Facebook.com. Why he would do is unclear …
Read More »Create your own social networking site
If you hope to compete with Facebook, LinkedIn, or even MySpace, stop reading now. I am not promising anything like that, but in some cases, you might want to make a small social network for a particular student group, organization, niche market, city or town, or people with particular cultural …
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