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digital.venturebeat.com - 6/18/2009
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All the recent media coverage about Twitter’s central role in covering Iranian political news got me wondering — on Twitter, of course — how many people are actually using the service inside of Iran. I got a couple responses, in the form of anecdotal statistics from web ...
blog.facebook.com - 6/17/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Today, we're beginning to test new versions of
Facebook Search with a small group — just a...
fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook...
(more)
Look Who's Talking Now
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/19/2009
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com —
E-commerce is a likely source of revenue for
Twitter, said board member Todd Chaffee. Expect new feeds...
and filters, too.
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Twitter Plans to Offer Shopping Advice and Easy Purchasing
techcrunch.com - 6/21/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Facebook has a big revenue target this year
- $550 million, according to investors who were pitched...
in the last round of funding. That’s nearly twice 2008 revenues of $280 million. A big part of that revenue comes from cost-per-click ...
(more)
Facebook Click Fraud Enraging Advertisers
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Facebook, SMS used more than Twitter by Iran's protesters
Obsessable News Feed —
... been talking about Twitter's role in the post-election protests in Iran (including the U.S. State Department), but folks with access to the data are saying that while Twitter is being used by U.S. and European media outlets to get around the Ahmadinejad administration's harsh restrictions on foreign journalists, the Iranian citizens themselves are mostly sticking to more traditional methods of communication like Facebook (according to VentureBeat), SMS text messaging, e-mail, and yes, word of mouth (according to BusinessWeek) to organize. ...
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