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STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens
mashable.com - 10/13/2009
STATS: Facebook and Twitter’s Growth Flattens
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Throughout the entire 2008 and the better part of 2009, we’ve reported on Facebook and Twitter’s explosive growth. Month after month , we’ve seen tremendous numbers from both these services, while some giants of old, such as MySpace, dropped lower and lower. Somewhere in ...
Twitter: Nope, We’re Not Doing Video Tweets
mashable.com - 10/12/2009
Twitter: Nope, We’re Not Doing Video Tweets
— mashable.com — We commented a few hours ago on a claim in the Telegraph newspaper that Twitter is considering... the addition of video to the service, and expressed skepticism about the report. That skepticism seems well-founded, as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone ... (more) Twitter: Nope, We’re Not Doing Video Tweets

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Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
news.cnet.com - 10/12/2009
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
— news.cnet.com — Thousands of Facebook users who have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and... a half now are now seeing their profiles restored--but some data related to recent profile updates may have been lost. What happened? According to ... (more) Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000

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As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls Further Behind In The Rear-View Mirror
techcrunch.com - 10/14/2009
As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls Further Behind In The Rear-View Mirror
— techcrunch.com — Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be... moving out of eyeshot. September’s U.S. comScore data has just been released and it appears that the gap between Facebook and ... (more) As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls ...

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WebProNews Feed:  Twitter Lines Up New Office Space

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Twitter Lines Up New Office Space
WebProNews Feed — ... That means Twitter's moving just the tiniest bit northwest from its current location at 539 Bryant Street.  That also means (or at least implies) that Twitter really requires the extra space, since the distance is so insignificant. Now's an interesting time for Twitter to start taking on new employees and a fresh lease.  On the one hand, the company did pull in the $100 million in financing.  On the other, stats from both Hitwise and Compete seem to indicate that Twitter's having growth problems. ...

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