Status of Micro-Blogging in the Blogosphere, alternate geeky universe

September 28, 2008
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Status of Micro-Blogging in the Blogosphere, alternate geeky universe

March 1 2006 Facebook launces status update July 10 Jaiku micro-blogging July 13 2006 Twitter The first major micro-blogging service launches Twitterers use mobile phones, instant-messaging software, or Twitter’s own website to send and receive 140-character messages, called twitters or tweets. Tweets–which mostly answer Twitter’s prompt “What are you doing?”–are routed to individual friends,...

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Social media by the numbers: increase in users

June 5, 2008
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Summary Numbers The greatest overlap between OpenSocial container sites exists between MySpace and Hi5, in which 43% of Hi5 users also use MySpace. Facebook users are 63% female and 36% male whereas the sites integrated with the OpenSocial platform are 61% female and 38% male 52% of Facebook users are 18-25, whereas 40% of...

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