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TweetDeck Hits 15 Million Downloads

David Correll on July 13, 2010 | Tweetdeck | Comments (0)

TweetDeck is the most popular 3rd party Twitter client and yesterday celebrated 15 million downloads of their desktop software. This makes them 5 times more popular than their closest rival. Their iPhone application has also been downloaded 2.5 million times. TweetDeck has said their software generates four million tweets, status updates and buzz posts per […]

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3 Mobile gives free access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare

David Correll on July 12, 2010 | 3 Mobile Australia Optus Skype Telstra | Comments (0)

Similar to other telco’s – 3 Mobile has announced customers on post-paid cap plans will now get free mobile internet access to social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare. Due to the popularity of social networking sites 3 is making this offer available with no time limits or data limits – you […]

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Danni Minogue posts Baby photo on Twitter

David Correll on July 12, 2010 | Australia Twitter | Comments (0)

Danni Minogue has recently given birth her baby boy Ethan and showed him off to the world via Twitter. You can follow Danni on Twitter here. The photo posted 2 days ago has already received over 50,000 view and almost 800 Facebook ‘Likes’.

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Foursquare v Gowalla [FACTS]

David Correll on July 9, 2010 | Foursquare Geo-location Gowalla | Comments (1)

Over the past year there has been lot of talk about Geolocation mobile services Foursquare and Gowalla. There are more players in this space but these 2 hold a majority of the location market. A recent report by RJMetrics compared the services via their API data. Some key facts to note: – Foursquare now has […]

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Twitter search queries growing 33%, up to 800 million

David Correll on July 8, 2010 | Twitter | Comments (0)

Twitter is now supporting 800 million search queries a day, which is a 33% rise from the 600 million per day reported previously in April (on an average day). This means Twitter is now handling around 24 billion search queries a month. Comscore reported that Bing was generating 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo […]

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New Geolocation mobile app launched, Loopt

David Correll on July 7, 2010 | Geolocation Loopt | Comments (0)

A new social Geolocation mobile app has launched – Loopt. Similar to Gowalla and Foursquare, Loopt is more social in that it lets you chat and interact with users around you. Currently the app is available on the iPhone. To download the App goto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loopt/id281952554 The app is also available on the iPad and is […]

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STATS of the Internet!

David Correll on July 7, 2010 | Internet | Comments (0)

We all know the internet is big, and growing by the second. It is estimated that 5 new sites are being created every second. Here is some more info on the modern day internet- Google estimates the internet is now about 5 million terabytes of data (5 billion GB) Google has only indexed .004% of […]

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Julia Gillard joins Twitter

David Correll on July 5, 2010 | Australia Government | Comments (2)

Australia’s first female Prime Minister – Julia Gillard has now officially joined Twitter. Julia’s first tweet: I’ve decided it’s time to take the Twitter plunge! Hopefully I’ll master it. JG. Yes – we hope so too! : ) You can follow Julia on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliagillard Gillard now has over 10,000 followers just 1 day […]

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North Ryde Tweet up, July 7, 7:30am

David Correll on July 5, 2010 | Australia Social Media Policy Sydney | Comments (1)

Vivienne Storey from BlandsLaw is heading a Tweetup this Thursday July 7 at North Ryde. Want to discuss Twitter topics with fellow Northern Sydneysiders? Want to discuss the legal implications of Twitter? Social Media Policy? Coffee? 🙂 Details are: North Ryde Tweetup When: Wed 7th July from 7.30am Where: Silverwater Cafe 80 Waterloo Rd, Macquarie […]

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[HUGE] Facebook and Twitter Integrate

David Correll on June 24, 2010 | Facebook Twitter | Comments (0)

Twitter has announced that it is bringing major updates to their connections with Facebook and LinkedIn. A new Facebook app has been created – the Twitter app for Facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ This allows you to post your Tweets onto your Facebook profile, lets you see which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter – and even […]

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