Cambridge (ip-192.com): The rapid growth of Twitter relied primarily on media attention and traditional social networks based on geographic proximity and socioeconomic similarity, according to MIT scientists. The team analyzed the development of the social networking and microblogging site from 2006 to 2009. Twitter is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide who [...]
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Twitter: Growth related to media coverage, geographic proximity
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Fresh cash for Twitter: $300 million from Saudi Arabia
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Christmas comes early for Twitter: The social networking and microblogging service receives $300 million in fresh cash from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a Saudi Arabian businessman and investor. Analysts say that Twitter is worth about $8 billion. Earlier in 2011, the company raised another $400 million from private investors. Launched on July [...]
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F1: Firefox social networking extension
Mountain View (ip-192.com): A new extension to Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to share content through social networks. F1 will automatically shorten URL’s using bit.ly and insert it into tweets, allowing users to update their status on Twitter in one single step. For Facebook, the extension takes a screenshot and description of the page users [...]
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Yahoo: Email service gets major update
Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Yahoo email users are getting a first glimpse of a major overhaul – the Sunnyvale based company is rolling out the biggest redesign to its mail service since 2005. 273 million people worldwide use Yahoo Mail, and now they can opt-in to use the beta version of the revamped mail service. Besides unlimited [...]
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