Play Raiderz Europe this weekend

 
The magazine PcGamer with Raiderz Europe offer the possibility of closed beta testing Raiderz before its official launch next August 9. If you want to play for this weekend, from 3 to August 5, follow these simple steps:

• Visit website PcGamer
• Click on the link to the registration web Raiderz
• Create an account, you got an email with the key this weekend APRA
• Sign in Raiderz website and redeem your key
• I got an email with a link to download the game.

This key does not fit the beta will start next August 9.
* Thanks to Eo by notifying the event.

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Twitter is the 500 million users

 

More than half a billion people already own profile on Twitter and Brazil has a good part in it. Only the United States, according to data compiled by Semiocast, have 140 million users on the microblogging network.

According to the French consulting company, exceeding the 500 million occurred before July 1, when there were 517 million twitterers worldwide. In June 1058 it was billion tweets posted public - 25.8% of them were Americans.

The U.S. accounts for 27.4% of total users, with 141.8 million accounts created during this period. There was a decrease compared to January, when the country had 28.1%.

But Brazil, which in early 2012 the Japanese took the 2nd position as the largest country on the network, the time had 33.3 million users, but increased to 41.2 million last month. In percentage terms, we are still well below the U.S., since the number of twitterers Brazilian equivalent to 0.8% of the total, and only 6.6% of the world out public tweets here.

In the ranking of the 20 largest cities in the network, however, the country has two locations: St. Paul is in 4th and Rio de Janeiro in 16th.

To arrive at the numbers, the information disclosed Semiocast used by the users, such as language, time zone and location registered in the profile. Also enter the location used to post tweets via mobile devices, but only 0.77% of the public message has this data.

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1 billion 'things' are shared daily on Open Graph Facebook

 

Every day, more than a billion things are shared by the Open Graph of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said during an investor conference social network, according to CNET .

The social applications that add things like movies that you watched the timeline of Facebook, were announced in November last year and fell rapidly in the tastes of users. Currently, more than 5000 apps can add this information to your account.

Many of the apps recorded a large increase in usage due to sharing of information with friends. One of them, Socialcam, sold for $ 60 million, and reached because of the integration with the Open Graph.

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55% of users feel "uncomfortable" if you can not access Facebook

 

A new study says that 55 percent of users feel "uncomfortably or upset" if you can not access their Facebook profile during the day, and more than 60 percent of users surveyed feel compelled to shut down the computer and other mobile devices to have a break.
Social networks have managed to occupy much of the time users spend online. In addition, because mobile devices connection times increase as users can access social networks anytime, anywhere. However, too much time users spend on Facebook or Twitter can bring a number of problems.
A new study by the School of Business at the University of Salford in Manchester (UK)-picked up by the British newspaper The Telegraph, says that 53 percent of respondents who use social networks have changed their behavior and 50 percent believe that change for the worse.
Generally, those who suffered a negative impact of social media say their confidence fell after comparing their achievements with their friends online.
Two thirds of users surveyed say they have found it difficult to sleep after spending time on these sites and a quarter said it has had difficulties in their relationships or their place of work after having had discussions online through social networks.
The study also reveals the addictive power of the Internet, and that 55 percent of users say they feel "uncomfortable or upset" when they can access their Facebook profiles or your email account.
More than 60 percent of people said they felt compelled to put their devices in order to have a break and a third of respondents said even those devices on and off several times a day.
To perform the study, researchers at the University of Salford has made 298 surveys of Internet users.
Related links:
- The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9383609/Facebook-and-Twitter-feed-anxiety-study-finds.html).

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