A modern wife and mom's twitterings...
@Ladygaga became the fastest account on the San Francisco-based social networking site to have nine million followers.
When fans tweeted, "#bornthisday" in honor of Lady Gaga's birthday, she tweeted back:
"Thank you for trending #BornThisDay monsters! The sweetest tweet! You are all the present I need in the world. I'll be 25 in about 4 hrs!"
Lady Gaga has been an active tweeter since 2008.
When Twitter was first introduced in 2006, it quickly became the nexus for online conversation within the social web. Now, at five years of age, it has changed from functioning as a social network to becoming an information network. Twitter even refers to itself as a "real-time information network” designed to connect users to the latest information on topics of interest.
This begs the question, if the conversation is no longer taking place on Twitter, where did it go? You know the answer: Facebook!As The New York Times puts the finishing touches on a metered paywall system that goes up March 28, cheapskate devotees of the news source are finding workarounds that will allow them to continue to read the paper for free, even after they've surpassed their allotted 20 stories per month.
Forbes reports the Times is attempting to stamp out the subversion attempts as they find them. One notable hole in the paywall is freeNYTimes, a Twitter account that's meant to link to every NYT story that posts. The account, which uses the NYT's own application programming interface to automate the process, lets readers vault over the paywall because the newspaper's system allows incoming links from social networking sites.
A Times spokesperson says the paper has asked Twitter to disable the account because it violates its trademark.
The last in the series of Harry Potter movies will be released this year. I enjoyed the books and have enjoyed the motion picture series even more, especially watching and growing up with the characters!
* 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
* 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
* 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
* 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
* 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
* 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
* 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.
Russian celebrities are not really that different from every other celebrity in the world in their hunt for PR. Logically, many of them quickly jumped on the Twitter bandwagon when they realized the PR power of it. Tina Kandelaki, a TV personality, is one of the most active Twitter users among Russian celebrities as she reports quite a number of her daily events to more than 50 thousand of followers. And today she has had her account hacked.
Although I am "the twitterer," I do keep an eye on other microblogging platforms and social networks. I have a very private Facebook account that I share with close friends and family only. Facebook has become a tool we have come to rely on. Much the same as we rely on Google to "search the web," we rely on Facebook to link up and hook up with people worldwide.
Can we be sure that Facebook will always be around? Venessa Miemis seems to think so... her new Kickstarter project which includes interviews with Om Malik, Rita J. King, Doc Searls, Sibley Verbeck and number of Internet philosophers and theorists. It's a provocative notion attempting to document the potential and speculative future of Facebook. What's intriguing is that the very existence of the project infers a belief that Facebook is a permanent, integrated part of our society!
