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15 Apr 2010 10:04

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Tech: Twitter finally gives us some concrete numbers about its growth

  • 604,455 accounts per Twitter employee
  • 105M number of users on Twitter; 300,000 get added daily
  • 50M number of tweets
    that get sent out
    every single day
  • 75% of all tweet traffic comes from third-party applications source
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15 Apr 2010 09:39

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Tech: Don’t bring iPads to Israel; it doesn’t fit their standards for tablets

  • They must have at least five commandments on them, minimum. Seriously, though, the iPad apparently does not meet standards for wi-fi in the country, which are the same as Europe’s. Kind of a stupid reason, by the way, considering there are MILLIONS of devices that support the form of wi-fi the iPad does. source
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15 Apr 2010 09:15

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Tech: Despite sucking terribly, Opera Mini gets a ton of downloads

  • 1 million downloads of a crap iPhone browser in its first full day source
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14 Apr 2010 22:51

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Tech: The most useless quote from Chirp comes from will.i.am

  • I love the world of social connectivity, the real-time responses and connections, the same thing that crippled the industry I live in. Now you can surf people’s thoughts.
  • will.i.am • Discussing why he likes Twitter. He seemed like a strange presence at the conference (especially after he suggested bands will have official programmers). And what a conference it is – Twitter introduced a bunch of crap that directly steps on the toes of what developers are already doing with the technology, going so far as to offer their own URL shortener. Well crap. There goes the neighborhood, kids. source
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14 Apr 2010 11:47

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Tech: The Library of Congress thinks tweets are really important

  • Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.
  • A tweet from @libraryofcongress • Which sounds absolutely awesome. Could you imagine? Twitter getting archived into the annals of history? The sandwich you ate? All the malware links? The Bieber-bombings we’ve seen over the last month or two? The FourSquare mayoral races? Sign us up! source
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14 Apr 2010 11:27

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Tech: If you’re our Facebook fan, you’re worth this much to us

  • $3.60 pay up quick, suckers; we need money source
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14 Apr 2010 10:50

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Tech: Sorry, world: Apparently, the iPad’s really popular in the U.S.

  • Faced with this surprisingly strong U.S. demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May.
  • A statement from Apple • Regarding the company’s decision to delay the international release of the tablet which we’re currently using to read tweets while blogging (Twitterrific for the win). The company says that they’ve already shipped half a million iPads but it appeared demand in the U.S. would top expectations for at least the next several weeks. We blame the awesome Reuters app. source
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14 Apr 2010 10:04

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Tech: After the Tweetie buy-out, are Twitter developers screwed?

Not if you’re Seesmic. No word on other developers, but Robert Scoble reports the Twitter client maker diversified its approach, though they say they’ve felt squeezed. source
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14 Apr 2010 09:43

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Tech, World: Protip to Web-censored countries: Use Opera. No, really

  • 32% of people in Kazakhstan use Opera for browsing source
  • » Why Opera, anyway?: Well, Opera has this Turbo Browsing mode that goes through a proxy. The feature is intended to make Web browsing faster, but has the side effect of getting around the country’s censorship law, which passed last year. Too bad the iPhone app sucks.
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13 Apr 2010 11:06

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Tech: Twitter’s big revenue model: Advertising. Who didn’t expect that?

  • now Twitter will let companies buy ad tweets for certain keywords on searches. Well, that’s obvious.
  • later Twitter will show relevant promoted posts in the stream of tweets. That’s even moreso. source
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