Twitter has hit 50 million tweets per day mark - more than 20 times the traffic the microblogging service was experiencing a year ago.
The leap to 50 million tweets per day, or 600 tweets per second, which does not include spam, shows the huge growth the service has notched up in the space of three years.
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Facebook has reported that more than 100 million users are now accessing the social networking site via their mobiles, following a steep pick-up since September.
The new figure means the company’s mobile user base has almost doubled in the past six months, thanks in part to the improved simplicity of access to the site from all [...]

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Facebook is the fourth largest distributor of news content on the web as people spend more time on social networking websites.
Last year Facebook overtook Google News rising from just over 1% in January 2009 to 3.5% last week.
Google News accounted for only 1.39% of visits to news and media sites last month while Google Reader, [...]

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Walt Disney Co president and chief executive Robert Iger says that Apple’s new iPad tablet computer may prove to be a “game changer” for the entertainment and media industry.
“We find that the iPad has a lot of potential,” Iger said in a conference call after Disney announced a first-quarter net profit of $844m, virtually unchanged [...]

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A British gangster is Facebook to threaten people who he says he will target after his release, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Colin Gunn, serving 35 years for conspiracy to murder after ordering the execution of two people, said he was allowed to set up the account by prison bosses, the Sunday Times said.
“I will be [...]

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