Twitter has counted up users outside of the USA

Number of the registered users Twitter living outside of the USA, makes more than 60% from the general number of users. In September, 2009 the percentage parity of the American and not American users has made 50/50, is informed in blog Twitter.

Six language Twitters

At the moment official site Twitter is accessible in six languages, thus four language versions — Spanish, French, Italian and German — have been started in October/December, 2009. Besides it Twitter also possesses the version in the Japanese language which has been presented in 2008.

Cellular cooperation

Twitter also expand actively co-operates with cellular operators of some the countries to provide possibility free to use service by means of mobile phones. So, the company has entered into agreements with operators in India, Indonesia and Haiti.

Let's notice, that according to the research published in the beginning of March, only every fifth owner of accounting record Twitter is the active user of service. 73% of users Twitter updated the microblog less than 10 times.

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Twitter has completely altered the main page

The largest microblog of Twitter has completely altered the main page, having made the main page of more easy for new users.

Minor improvements

In the new version there was a list of popular users Twitter and constantly updated list of the most popular twitters. The most popular themes are allocated now in a running line. As well as in the last version, on main page there is a search form.

The New Concept

Simultaneously with release of the new version of the main page the service administration has informed that Twitter has ceased to be service for the message about the your affairs. Now, Twitter is officially positioned as a network for information interchange.

Daily in Twitter appears over 50 million new records. The monthly audience of service makes 75 million users.

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In China has ceased to work Google

The search inquiries sent on March, 30th by inhabitants of China from main page Google, did not give out results. Instead of them at users the empty page with the information on a search error was loaded, writes The Los Angeles Times. Also the error led to connection rupture to the Internet. Thus other services Google continued to work.

The Chinese block

This malfunction has been fixed in territory of continental China. Chinese users Twitter have started to inform on malfunctions in the searcher about five o'clock in the evening on local time. Thus service of microblogs Twitter in territory of China is officially blocked, therefore it is necessary for users "to apply technical cunnings" to publish a content.

Error or Consequence?

Google officially has not commented on a situation, and remains not clear, whether are errors of search a measure accepted by the Chinese government in reply to refusal Google to carry out censorship of search inquiries. Google has made decision to refuse from censorship on March, 22nd, in reply to hacker attacks to the corporate network.

At the moment the Chinese visitors of site Google.cn are automatically redirected on Hong Kong portal Google.com.hk. Further search is carried out by means of the servers also located in Hong Kong. It allows the searcher not to fulfil the requirement of the Chinese government on obligatory censorship of search inquiries.

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YouTube has renewed work after five-hour failure

The largest videohosting YouTube has renewed work after debugging. On a site the main page and the majority of sections, however videoclips were not displayed were accessible on direct links.

Without explanations of the reasons

YouTube yet has not explained the reason of malfunctions. The representative of a video hosting has informed, that YouTube has understood an essence of the arisen problem, and engineers were engaged in restoration of working capacity of a site.

The Chinese trace

In the beginning of week of a malfunction also have concerned site Google. Users from the different countries told, that the information on company management was displayed in the Chinese language. Many bloggers have connected it with refusal Google of censorship in China and have put forward assumptions, that the site has undergone to hacker attack, writes The Guardian.

Subsequently Google in the microblog on Twitter has informed, that the malfunction has been caused by an error, instead of hacker attack, and that the error is already corrected. We will notice, that Google owns videohosting YouTube.

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Twitter takes root into another's web sites

Twitter on March, 15th announced a platform @anywhere, allowing to integrate resource functions on foreign sites. For support @anywhere it is enough to owners of sites to add some lines in a page code.

The partner agreement

In particular, the user can send messages in Twitter from partners @anywhere. Besides, @anywhere allows to become, for example, the constant reader of the author of the material placed on a site, and also to find new interesting microblogs. All it is made without calling on site Twitter.

Mutually advantageous cooperation

Support of a new platform has already declared a number of large resources. Their number includes Internet shop Amazon, portal Yahoo!, video hosting YouTube, Bing, social service Digg, newspaper The New York Times, edition The Huffington Post and others.

Exact date of start @anywhere is not called. It is expected, that it will take place in the near future.

The computer of 1980 of release will adapt for Twitter

Computer Commodore VIC-20 made in 1980, will be used for dialogue through service of microblogs Twitter. Employees of a museum of the personal computer (PC Museum), located in the Canadian city of Brentford plan to communicate with other users of service on February, 20th, writes Gizmodo.

8-bit computer VIC-20

Eight-bit computer VIC-20 is equipped by five kilobytes of operative memory, clock frequency of the processor of 1,02 megahertz. That, according to employees of a museum, approximately in 3 thousand times it is less, than at modern personal computers.

Dialogue in Twitter becomes real thanks to program TweetVER which has been written down on a cassette magnetic tape.

The very first computer

According to site Commodore.ca VIC-20 became the first computer sold in number of more one million of copies. By the moment of removal from manufacture in the world it has been sold more than 2,5 million VIC-20.

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Wikileaks has found money for work continuation

Noncommercial organisation Sunshine Press has collected the minimum sum necessary for renewal of work of resource Wikileaks, publishing confidential, semiconfidential, office and other documents.

Wikileaks will live!

In the end of January — the beginning of February administration Wikileaks has informed on a suspension of the project because of shortage of means. For work renewal it was required at least $200,000US, and project Wikileaks had only 130,000.

We agree to work for meal...

Thanks to donations of private persons for some days the sum has been finished to $200,000US (the resource does not accept payments from the state and commercial organisations). Representatives Wikileaks write, that are ready to continue work even if it should eat fig... They specify, that for payments of salaries and realisation of plans for 2010 it is required to them of $600,000US.

Wikileaks it is known for variety of loud publications. Their number includes almost seven thousand reports of Research service of the Congress of the USA, documents of the Ministry of Defence of the Great Britain etc.

Australians — the most active on the Internet

American marketing company Nielsen has counted up, that users of the Internet spend more than five and a half hours per day for various network social services. The greatest popularity social network Facebook and service of microblogs Twitter thus uses.

Internet leaders

As informs Nielsen, in December, 2008 for social services it was spent on the average hardly more than three hours per day whereas by December 2009 this indicator has reached 5 hours of 35 minutes. Growth, thus, has made 82% in the Year. Data concern users of the Internet from the USA, the Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan and Brazil. Australians have appeared leaders on dependence on the Internet: they "stay" in social networks on the average almost seven hours per day.

The most popular social community

Thus the most popular social service, according to Nielsen, remains Facebook, and the most fast-growing on popularity — Twitter.

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Day of a pornography on YouTube

Users of an anonymous forum 4chan have appointed to January, 6th the mass calculation on YouTube rollers with a pornography, writes TechCrunch.

Thousand pornoimpregnations

As well as all similar operations, this consists in preparation of outwardly decent videoclips containing pornographic inserts. Anonymous authors have agreed to create counterfeit accounting records on YouTube, to load pornorollers, but not to publish them to the appointed term. On idea of organizers, on January, 6th on a video hosting there will be at once thousand videoclips with impregnations of pornoscenes.

Given the protest is the answer to blocking of the accounting record of the eight-year fan of games Nintendo, Lukeywes1234 as which on 4chan already recognised as the king and the god.

Not deserved blocking of the boy

The boy who together with the grandmother removed a miniserial about heroes of games, has informed on January, 2nd, that would like to have by February 50 subscribers. Anonymous authors with 4chan have decided to help Lukeywes1234 to have not 50, and over 9000 subscribers. On achievement of an object in view at anonymous authors, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica, has left about one days. By January, 4th at the boy was already 14 thousand subscribers, and in 12 hours YouTube has frozen Lukeywes1234. In administration have explained the decision to that the child is too small for service use.

The protests which main condition is anonymity, 4chan and users of other similar resources, carry out regularly. For example, in July, 2009 they have made a word gorillapenis the most popular theme in Twitter, and in April have lifted the founder 4chan, the user moot, on top of a rating of magazine Time.

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Twitter Tendencies

The world's largest service of microblogs Twitter became for the first time profitable, writes Bloomberg BusinessWeek. In profit to service contracts with corporations Google and Microsoft, the brought companies of 25 million dollars have helped to leave. That Twitter has made records of bloggers accessible for Google, Twitter has received 15 million dollars, and for Bing — 10 million dollars.

Twitter remained in profit

Though Twitter does not open the financial indicators, two sources BusinessWeek have declared, that service thanks to contracts managed to receive small profit following the results of a year. Thus, annual expenses Twitter are levelled to the sum of 25 million dollars.

If sources are right, it will be the first profitable year for service which has appeared in 2006. While Twitter prefers to increase an audience, instead of to receive profit. In total in Twitter, on autumn data, it has been registered over 60 million users.

The astable income

Nevertheless, the stable income at Twitter while is not present. In 2010 service plans to start some paid possibilities for corporate users. Besides, probably, Twitter will start to place advertising in large quantities. While advertising appears only in the Japanese version of a resource.

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Attendance Twitter has fallen asleep at one level

International traffic Twitter continues to be stabilised to similarly number of unique visitors of the resource, fallen asleep flush with November of this year. About it writes TechCrunch. In October Twitter totaled 58,3 million unique visitors. Thus for a month the traffic has grown all for 3,5%.

November traffic Twitter "has fallen asleep"

November traffic Twitter in the USA shows the same indicators: after October falling of attendance for 8% in November the number of visitors has grown all on 100,000 persons.

For the last some months Twitter have started the Spanish, German, French and Italian versions that promoted increase in the international attendance. The chief executive of company Evan Williams has confirmed traffic stabilisation, however has expressed confidence, that new possibilities of a resource, such as button "Retweet", "Lists" and "Geolocation" should increase attendance Twitter.

Sixty percent of bloggers never come back

Meanwhile, April research Nielsen Online has shown, that 60% of the users who have come on Twitter for month, next month to service do not come back any more. Throughout last year Twitter frequently kept less than 30% of the old audience. In traditional social networks this indicator much more above. The low share of remaining users limits resource growth.

Also it is necessary to notice, that the majority of users updates the microblogs not through a site, and by means of mobile appendices and SMS. This feature of interaction with service can seriously influence the conclusions made during the analysis of data about attendance. And the set from the innovations announced by Williams already has been realised in foreign Twitter-clients on which share half of traffic of a resource is necessary.

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MySpace has got Imeem.com

Social network MySpace, having finished the transaction on purchase of service Imeem.com. Developers have not warned that their creations will be blocked, informs ReadWriteWeb.

The future integration

Let's remind, that social network MySpace, despite crisis and reductions of regional divisions, has taken a great interest in purchase of musical portals. So, in August they have bought service iLike. And in November have decided to get Imeem, existing since 2003 and recently hardly making ends meet.

Yesterday the transaction on purchase Imeem has come to the end: 16 million users and the appendix have been got for the sum less than 1 million dollars. Buyers have promised "the next weeks" to integrate that good, that is at Imeem, in musical services MySpace.

API service is closed without the prevention

Also did not begin to lose time, having closed API service Imeem for developers without the prevention. Among victims, in particular, there was service Twt.fm, one of the most popular musical appendices for Twitter. Mobile appendices for iPhone and Android though are accessible on iTunes, too at the moment are not capable.

EFF has legal proceedings with the authorities

American noncommercial human rights organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation has risen on protection of confidentiality of the given users of social networks. Members of the organisation have brought an action against some American ministries in connection with use of social networks by the last in the work, informs ReadWriteWeb.

Infringement of human rights

Under distribution six departments of the USA with all agencies entering into their structure and services have got: the Ministry of Defence, the central intelligence service, department of safety of the native land, the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice and others.

In claim EFF affairs and investigations which it was carried out by means of social resources like Facebook, My Space or YouTube are mentioned. In particular, legal experts recollect history of fugitive from justice Maksi Sopo which have tracked down in the Mexican Cancun thanks to the status in Facebook and to that the criminal had nonsense to add in friends to the former employee of Ministry of Justice of the USA.

It is mentioned and Twitter — this social network of civil service used during the summit of "the big twenty» more densely to communicate to instigators of protest actions. We will remind, to the inhabitant of New York Elliot Madison in October of current year have brought accusations in criminal use of communication media. And all because he participated in protest action in the first day of summit G-20i with the help «Twitter» communicated with other "Protestants".

Infringement of the law on information freedom

According to Electronic Frontier Foundation, servants of the American people have a little overdone, illegally using personal data of simple people. The organisation has every chance to achieve a recognition of actions of the ministries the illegal.

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