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Twitter – Happy Birthday To You.

saleem — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:45:34 +0000

Sunday, March 21st on the West Coast there was the Twitter’s 4th birthday. Almost four years ago Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet along with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, they started a phenomenon. In February, 2010 Twitter hit 50 million Tweets per day that’s a great achievement and last summer it was declared that “Twitter” would enter the Collins English Dictionary

Many many happy birthday to you Twitter and always keep people smiling.

Facebook Launching Location Features Next Month

saleem — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:54:39 +0000

A big news for social networking lovers, According to the New York Times Bits blog, Facebook will officially declare geolocation features at its annual f8 developers conference in late April. According to Bits, Facebook will not only allow users to append location information to their status updates but also provide a set of APIs so that developers can allow location information to be shared with the social networking platforms.

In preparation for the introduction, Facebook updated its privacy policy last November. The new policy states: “When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post.”

With over 400 million users, Facebook has the potential to turn the location-based application industry upwards down. Facebook’s 100 million active mobile users are perhaps even more important. But the company says it won’t attempt to compete with the Foursquare’s and Gowalla’s of the world, but rather try to take on Google in the local small business advertising niche. How that’ll work remains to be seen.

Twitter has also apparently rolled out geolocation capabilities on its website today though it’s been available from mobile phones and via its APIs.

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Twitter Achieved 10 Billion Tweets

saleem — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:45:18 +0000

Its a big news that Twitter hits 10 billion Tweets . In fact its a big number. The mega micro blogging site Twitter hit 10 billion tweets. It is said that it gets about 50 million tweets a day and so hitting 10 billion in just a few months from the previous 5 billion tweets mark wasn’t as surprising.