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The milestone, which was reached last night, underlines Twitter’s meteoric growth and increasing popular appeal. In November 2008, it broke the billion tweets mark, and reached five billion tweets last November. However, Twitter users have been unable to identify who sent the 10 billionth tweet, as it came from someone with a “protected” profile, meaning their messages cannot be viewed by the general public. News that the milestone had been reached came from Gigatweet, the … Read entire article »

A COMMON reason given by those who have yet to try Twitter: “I have nothing to say.” The truth is, you don’t have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter. At its best, the social medium is a perpetual, personalized news service about topics of your choosing — whether health care reform, tech news or the latest episode of “Gossip Girl” — filtered and served to you by people who care a … Read entire article »

The Italian composer joins the ranks of Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci and Mahatma Gandhi as people who have all been honoured with a Google Doodle. Doodles have also been produced for the birthdays of Andy Warhol, Louis Braille, HG Wells, Michael Jackson, Samuel Morse and Roald Dahl. Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678. He was nicknamed the Red Priest on account of his red hair and ordination in 1703. His most famous … Read entire article »

The growth of the Firefox web browser is one that’s been spurred on by word-of-mouth referrals, volunteerism and community-funded advertising campaigns to raise awareness. Over the years, the alternative web browser slowly chipped away at dominant Internet Explorer’s market share, despite its competitor’s advantage of coming bundled with the Windows operating system. By January of last year, Firefox topped 20% market share and by December, it reached 22%. But now, that growth has stalled. … Read entire article »

Twitter is launching a raft of new features that could rival the services offered by third-party applications, according to a tweet from one of the social network’s engineers. Alex Payne said “If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)” Twitter currently gets the majority of its traffic through third-party applications that are built around its open-source code, … Read entire article »