Sunday Roundup: Top Stories this Past Week, Twitter, Facebook, Google…

Michael Duvall — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:57:28 +0000

Twitter Study – August 2009 – Pearanalytics

A study was conducted by Pearanalytics with the initial hypothesis that Twitter was primarily used for Self Promotion. Their later findings concluded that 40% of Twitter Tweets are “Pointless Babble”, making it the most widely prolific type of Tweet sent. While conversation ranked number two in the study…

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Twitter Targeted by Familiar Worm

The saga continues where unsavory characters are exploiting Twitter to send unsuspected users to links that contain the Koobface worm. The end result being an attempt to gather sensitive data from your PC…

Twitter: Project Retweet in Phase One Status

Twitter Announced Phase one of Project Retweet, where they plan to implement a Retweet button at some point; allowing developers to first work with the API…

Facebook lite is accidently revealed

Facebook accidently rolled out invitations to several users of the service, asking them to try out a slender version of the Facebook application. The goal of this project is to gain more followers in areas that do not have high speed internet access…

Facebook’s July growth outpaced Twitter’s

In the latest counts from comscore.com Facebook has beaten Twitter in terms of growth in the month of July. Facebook drew in 87.7 million unique visitors- up 14 percent compared to last month while Twitter has only seen a 6 percent growth with 21.2 million unique visitors…

Facebook to face off with new Web rivals

Must speculation has been made as to whether Facebook is challenging Google’s search engine, by including web search functionality into the popular application. It has also been stated that they are working on a payment system that may give paypal a run for their money…

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