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Twitter Growing Twice As Fast As Facebook
allfacebook.com - 4/2/2009
Twitter Growing Twice As Fast As Facebook
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Facebook continues to be growing at the rate of around 5 million users a week according to the latest numbers but Twitter, the latest Silicon Valley darling, is posting some impressive growth figures of its own. The most recent data provided by Google Trends shows that Twitter has reached a ...
businessweek.com - 3/26/2009
Facebook Is Hunting for More Money
— businessweek.com — (more) Facebook Is Hunting for More Money

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Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due
venturebeat.com - 4/4/2009
Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due
— venturebeat.com — Facebook is testing out a way for people to show how much they appreciate friends’ status updates,... links and other items on the site — its a new feature called “credits.” The idea is a more advanced form of commenting or ... (more) Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due

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Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?
nymag.com - 4/6/2009
Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?
— nymag.com — Trust is a fragile commodity. (more) Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?

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Silicon Alley Insider:  Google To Pay Back $20 Million To Advertisers

Between the Lines:  Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?

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Google To Pay Back $20 Million To Advertisers
Silicon Alley Insider — Microsoft To Spend Up To $100 Million On Advertising For Search Relaunch [PaidContent] Hulu encrypts its HTML to fend off Boxee…again [VentureBeat] Twitter Growing Twice As Fast As Facebook [AllFacebook] Google Agrees To Pay $20 Million To Search Marketers Over AdWords “Daily Budget” [SEL] Ars Technica Slammed in Condé Nast Digital Layoffs [Gawker] New York Times executive editor Bill Keller slams Vanity Fair for slamming Sulzberger [Romenesko]   Join the conversation about this story ...

Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?
Between the Lines — ... Developers continue to vent their frustration at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the direction he’s taking his iconic social networking site. Zuckerberg’s vision for Facebook is to become the web-based platform of the future. But has it become tainted with so many changes that it has become an unsafe environment for building a business? According to Nick O’Neill , yes. In a post noting that microblogging platform Twitter is growing at twice the rate of Facebook — which itself is posting incredible growth numbers, notably overseas and in older demographics, with 5 million ...

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