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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Rumor: Apple negotiated investment in Twitter

 

The Apple and Twitter in the last month talked about the possibility of the iPhone maker to invest in order to participate in the social network, but negotiations have cooled in recent months.

According to Reuters , the Apple held talks with Twitter to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recent months. But now, nothing is being discussed. It is not known at what level the conversation took place, or if companies gave up on a possible deal.

For Apple, the investment in Twitter would enhance the strategic relationship with the microblog, which has more than 140 million active users and has over 3 billion messages sent each week.

For Twitter, however, the agreement may not make much sense. The microblog expects to generate $ 300 million in advertising sales this year and company executives say they do not plan to seek more funding today.

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4 essential apps on the 2012 London Olympics

 

Have all the latest details on the 2012 London Olympic Games and about your favorite teams and athletes is very simple, only need the following 4 apps that will detail below.
- PlayUP (free): give us fresh information on the Olympics. In addition, based on our location to give us first the news about the teams in our countries.
- Reuters Olympics London 2012 (free): If you want to see the best pictures of the games, then this is the app you're looking for.
- NBC Olympics (free): ideal for monitoring the progress of our favorite teams and athletes also will keep you updated about the medals you gain your country.
- OPlanner ($ 1 dollar): If you are interested in a sport or a particular computer, this application will give you all the details regarding the powers to be carried out, such as time, place and who will compete. You can mark those meetings that do not want to lose and share your bookmarks on Facebook and Twitter.

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After Google Talk, Twitter is the time to stay off the air

 

On the morning of Thursday (26/07) the Google Talk went off the air, and a few hours later, it was time for another service down for no apparent reason: Twitter.

Until now, users can not access the microblogging site or by official or by applications such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. However, the mobile version of site is functioning normally.

In the Twitter status blog , microblog confirms the failure. "Users may be experiencing problems accessing Twitter. Our engineers are working to resolve the problem."

It is the second time in just over a month since the microblog is off the air. On June 21 another problem also meant that users were unable to access the service. On occasion, the service returned, but the company's team did not disclose the reason for the decline.

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Greek athlete is expelled from the Olympics after a tweet

 

The athlete Papachristou Voula, Greek triple jump champion, will have to leave the Olympic venues in London and return home after making an offensive tweet last Monday. The declaration of the athlete on Twitter was considered racist by members of the Greek government, which prevented it from representing the country in competitions.

The tweet was: "With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes (which transmit a disease) can eat food from their own land."

One of the three parties that form the basis of the Greek government - the Democratic Left - ordered the athlete in a statement:

"Humor and racist jokes offensive to human lives are not tolerated by socidade Greek and can not thrive in Greek athletics. The least the Olympic committee can do now is to revoke the right of Voula Papachristou to compete in the Olympics," he says. "Watching on TV, she can make all the jokes that she wants, but is not sure she will represent Greece in London."

Papachristou apologized after the fact. "I am very ashamed of what I did, though he did not want to offend anyone or infringing human rights," he said.

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Review: Mountain Lion is the platform more social Macs

The most visible changes shows that the company is encouraging a new experience with the system, leading people to interpret the Mac as an extension of mobile devices. So much so that computers put in three applications that were previously only seen in iOS: Reminders, Notes and Messages. With the first, you can create alerts that will be displayed in other gadgets apple, if the Mac itself, you will make use of other big news: the Central Notification.

The Mountain Lion comes with a sidebar that displays a range of reports. New e-mails, reminders, messages, appointments in Calendar, updating applications ... everything appears in a single space. To check the task list, just click a small icon in the upper right corner of the screen, then the Central Notification appears pushing the desktop to the side.



 

The version 10.8 of OS used in Macs was released for download on Wednesday (25/07), then install OS X the famous Mountain Lion here to show what is most important among the more than 200 updates.

Soon after the installation process (which takes about two hours), the user is already faced with the first - and important - news: the "welcome" of OS X 10.8. The startup configuration is iCloud, which becomes available to Mac users this means that you can share virtually all products from Apple with the help of the cloud.

Share

The bar contains what is perhaps the biggest highlight of this new version of OS X. That way you can write tweets, and soon there will also be connecting with Facebook (something about which more later). We can set this to highlight why sharing is a word that defines well the Mountain Lion - throughout the system were adopted ways to spread content.

When you open the Finder, for example, the owner of the machine note the novelty of two ways: there is a button "Share selected items" and also a "Share" that appears when you right click on something is triggered. The file type defines the possibility of dissemination, such as audio and video, which can not be sent to Twitter but you can send them by e-mail, or airdrop.

In total there are nine options for sharing applications, including Safari (which is now in version 6), Photo Booth, QuickTime, iPhoto and Preview. You have to exchange files via e-mail, messaging, airdrop, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr and soon on Facebook. And the site of Mark Zuckerberg received a great emphasis on the operating system.

Facebook

There will be a great Mac-Facebook integration from now. The social network will have a number of funds with the OS X 10.8. When you log into the site by the system, the user takes all the contacts into the Mac and, thus, the birth dates are to appear in the Calendar

As we mentioned before, status updates can be made directly by the Central Notification - as well as adding photos to albums. And the sidebar also show site activity.

The Mountain Lion is definitely more social than the previous version and connection with the Facebook came to cover a hole, since the applications to control the network by Mac are not the best. In the case of Twitter, a timeline that shows the integration efficiently is able to kill the application's official Twitter, which already works quite well.

Overall, the system houses more than 200 new features, so if you decide to upgrade your Mac, tell us what features you most attention.

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Twitter updated its application for Android and iPhone OS

 

Following the announcement of the updates that will be doing the Twitter website, the company announced the new version of its client for IOS and Android. Now, the new app for Twitter lets do some new things we can see content from other websites without having to leave Twitter, it has improved auto-complete and also improved the notification system, giving us more news on tweets of our favorite Twitter accounts.
The new application update is available both in the App Store as the store Google Play and in both cases remains free, as is expected.

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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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Twitter incorporates auto

 

Twitter has added new features on its website that will improve the user experience and to make Twitter the easiest way to find out what's happening in real time. These include the auto-complete in the Web version of the microblog network.

Many Internet search services, such as Google, and incorporate features that make it easier to search usuariosla content on the Web For Google, the company's Mountain Instant View gives Google, which allows auto-searches before the user has finished writing the content to be searched. Twitter now also includes its own auto-complete for microblog network.

With the new autocomplete feature, users just have to start writing a 'hashtag' or the name of a Twitter user and network microblog in a drop down menu will offer all the options available before the user finished typing . After entering the search, the user will find the 'tweets' most relevant articles, images and videos available.
But users have also made other improvements to enhance search experience. On the one hand, Twitter has introduced spelling corrections, so that if the user misspells a word, Twitter automatically shows possible alternatives. On the other hand, the computer network has also introduced microblog suggestions related, ie if the user searches for a topic for which people use various terms, Twitter offers suggestions for terms that occur in most the conversation.
Other new features of Twitter to search for a username and the user will see not only the Twitter account of that person but also the results mentioning the actual name of that user.
"These changes make it easier to search on twitter.com," says the company's official blog. In addition, the Twitter team ensures that the suggestions, auto-complete and the corrections are also available in versions of IOS and Twitter for Android.
Related links:
- Blog Twitter (http://blog.twitter.com/2012/07/simpler-search.html).

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Facebook and Yahoo closed its patent battle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Yahoo reached an agreement Friday to form a society of Internet advertising and licensing, ending their demands for ownership of patents.

The settlement resolves allegations of technology patent violation that began under the administration of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who was later fired after a scandal over inaccuracies in his resume. Sources told Reuters that the chief executive (CEO, for its acronym in English) procedure, Ross Levinsohn, is the favorite to take the job.

The strategic agreement between Facebook and Yahoo - that expands an existing partnership that allows Facebook users to share content on Yahoo - includes patent cross-licensing and collaboration deals media advertising during major events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl.

"I am pleased that we could resolve this in a positive way and are looking forward to working with Ross and the directors of Yahoo," he said in a statement Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer and newest member of the board.

Yahoo, which once was the most distinctive Internet company, has struggled to accommodate a digital world dominated by companies like Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter.

Its board has gone through several problems since it rejected a takeover offer from Microsoft for 44,000 million dollars (about 35.851 million euros) in 2008 and had four CEOs in four years. The company did not say when a decision on a permanent CEO.

Demand for Yahoo had motivated some criticism that tried to get some money from a company that was about to go public in the largest IPO in Silicon Valley.

Facebook sued in March, saying the biggest social network in the world had violated ten patents, including several covering online advertising technology. In its application, Yahoo said that Facebook was considered "one of the worst performing advertising pages" before adopting the ideas of Yahoo.

Facebook, which became public in May, filed a countersuit a month later and myopic Yahoo ranked for its decision to prioritize "litigation innovation."

Facebook has been strengthening its patent arsenal. In April, announced an agreement to pay Microsoft $ 550 million for hundreds of patents that created AOL.

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Following a fall time, access back to normal Twitter

 
After nearly an hour off the air in a crash that totaled access across multiple platforms, access to Twitter was back to normal on Thursday afternoon. The microblogging service had left the air and prevented the access of users, in addition to the web version, on mobile devices and third party applications like TweetDeck, for example.

In its status page, the company confirmed the problem. "Users may be having trouble accessing Twitter. Our engineers are working to resolve the failure," the company said. Twitter did not say what caused the fall of the service.

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