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DATA POINTS: Social media statistics and trends in China
Go-Globe, an online web applications design and development firm, has created an infographic that covers statistics and facts about all the major social media platforms that China's 597 million social networking users are active on -- namely Qzone, Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo, Wechat, Pengyou, 51.com, Renren, Douban, Kaixin001, Jiayuan.
Twitter's 100 million milestone brings new questions on revenue and investment
GLOBAL - Last Thursday, Twitter announced that it had reached 100 million users, an 82 per cent growth from the beginning of the year. Its newly-appointed CEO, Dick Costolo, however has no plans to list until he's built a robust advertising business.
World Cup 2010: Fans swop Google for Twitter
GLOBAL – According to post-World Cup 2010 analysis reports on Google and Twitter's blogs, fans across the world stop searching and started tweeting for the duration of the 90-minute games.
Twitter activates @earlybird account to promote advertiser offers
GLOBAL – Twitter has launched an internally managed e-commerce account called @earlybird to tweet offers from selected advertisers.
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