insidefacebook.com - 6/2/2009
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Last week, we reported that although Facebook’s active US audience continues to grow by over 4% a week and has now reached over 60 million active US users per month, one age group is actually coming back to Facebook less: users over 55 , who were actually the fastest growing age group on ...
techcrunch.com - 5/31/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Facebook will soon be allowing all users to
claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile
page, we’ve heard from a reliable source. The announcement should come sometime later this week. Afterwards, at a certain date and time, the ...
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Prepare For The Facebook Vanity URL Landrush
techcrunch.com - 5/30/2009
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techcrunch.com —
Earlier today we wrote about Facebook updating its
terms to get ready for the roll-out of its
payment system. Well guess what, it’s already here. The application GroupCard is currently testing the new payment system live for all accounts that ...
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It’s Heeerrre: Pay With Facebook Is In The Wild
developers.facebook.com - 5/28/2009
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developers.facebook.com —
Frintro : Find friends of friends to date...or
play matchmaker! If you're single, you can search your
friends' friends and ask for intros. If you're taken, you can set friends up. Friends of friends are the best people to date. It's social dating via ...
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Tetris Turns 25
Silicon Alley Insider —
... if business models can be patented [NYT]
Tetris turns 25 [Reuters]
A post about Twitter hype quieting down kind of disproves itself [VentureBeat]
18-to-24 year-olds don't use Twitter much [WSJ]
Jogger runs into tree, gets black eye while using Twitter [Valleywag]
Rumor: Facebook charges merchants 15% to be on payments platform [All Facebook]
So why, exactly, are boomers quitting Facebook? [Inside Facebook]
Trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic [GameTrailers] ...
Time Spent On Facebook Up 700%
WebProNews Feed —
... Smith goes into detail to back up each of these reasons in an interesting post here. He also looks at audience growth in the last two 60-day periods, providing the following graph: ...
College Students’ Facebook Use Easing Up Over the Summer, While Parents Logging On in Record Numbers
Inside Facebook —
... Thus, it appears that recent dips in baby boomers’ Facebook usage were only short-lived. Usage amongst users over 55 have just surpassed their March 2009 levels to reach all time highs - now, nearly 4.2 million Americans over 55 are logging into Facebook each month. The fastest growing group? Men over 55 - up 42% in the last month to nearly 1.5 million. The number of ...
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