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Social Networks: Twitter has 50 million messages a day!

Social Networks: Twitter has 50 million messages a day!

Don’t bother reaching for that calculator – that amounts to about 579 tweets a second.

Jamere Holland dismissed from college football team due to Facebook comment

Jamere Holland dismissed from college football team due to Facebook comment

Who would’ve thought a Facebook post could lead to a football player’s dismissal from his team?

Celebrity Doppelgangers: Another trend on Facebook

Celebrity Doppelgangers: Another trend on Facebook

Just like the “Facebook bra color” trend that hit the social networking site weeks ago, Facebook is now observing the “Doppelganger Week,” in which users change their profile pictures to photos of their celebrity look-alikes.

Google to start indexing Facebook : how does this affect you?

Google to start indexing Facebook : how does this affect you?

There is always a huge concern (not to mention risk) whenever a system opens up more of itself to the public, and this is no exception.

Microsoft unveils new MSN site, integrates Facebook, Twitter

Microsoft unveils new MSN site, integrates Facebook, Twitter

Microsoft unveiled today a preview of their latest changes to the MSN website which they are claiming to be their “most significant homepage redesign in over a decade”.

Facebook hit again with court charges over two patent disputes

Facebook hit again with court charges over two patent disputes

Online social networking heavyweight Facebook has, yet again, been tagged with criminal charges, this time for violating two registered patents from two separate companies. According to the charges against Facebook, the site is in violation of patents for providing “personal pages” and for tracking the relationships between people.

Facebook-inspired site to go head-to-head with Facebook

Facebook-inspired site to go head-to-head with Facebook

One look at Vkontakte.ru can spawn such a huge sense of deja vu.

Facebook has seriously been at the forefront of social networking website advances, so to speak, so it’s not surprising that they would serve as the benchmark and model for all future (and past) social net sites. However, it’s seriously just plain creepy how Russian net site Vkontakte.ru has been patterned to Facebook. And the best part is, they’re planning to launch at an international level.

Facebook continues to hire big names despite recession

Facebook continues to hire big names despite recession

Despite the ongoing recession, the social networking site continues to add big names to its company, which includes snagging talents from Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart and Genentech.

Twitter’s “grand schemes of world domination” leaked

Twitter’s “grand schemes of world domination” leaked

Massive tech critic site TechCrunch has divulged reports about confidential Twitter documents that they managed to get ahold of.

After Riot, Twitter and Facebook Now Blocked in China

After Riot, Twitter and Facebook Now Blocked in China

After the riot happened in Xinjiang, Northwestern China, where 140 people have been killed due to the clash between the demostrators and the police, the government of China controlled the country’s media by blocking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Two weeks ago, almost all Google services have also been blocked.

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