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Request an invitation. A single minute may be barely enough time to construct a rational thought, but it’s time enough for social media denizens to inundate the web with their status updates, tweets, checkins, and photos. Every 60 seconds in social media, two million videos are viewed on YouTube, 700,000 messages are delivered by way of Facebook, 175,000 tweets are fired off into the ether, and 2,000 Foursquare check-ins tell the world where we are. If the volume of all this social media activity doesn’t astound you, perhaps a visual representation of the data will put things into prospective. Social Jumpstart, a social media resource for small business, has created an infographic, shared exclusively with VentureBeat, to add color to the wealth of publicly available data on the hottest social networks and applications of our day. Facebook, Flickr, others accused of reading text messages. Updates: see below.
Application developers and store operators are in for further rough times, as reports emerged this weekend that a number of popular smartphone applications, including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others, can access private text message data or other personal information. The Sunday Times (paywall) reported that Android and iPhone users are vulnerable to such invasions of privacy, though it is unclear whether application developers actively access data, or whether it is a result of poor security permissions. It is claimed that some applications can intercept phone calls, while others can allegedly remotely access a smartphone's camera, or even pinpoint its location without the user's knowledge. Since the Path debacle, Facebook and Twitter later became embroiled in the privacy row, whereby contact list data was uploaded to their servers.
The application industry is thought to be worth over $6 billion annually. Update 1: Headline edited for accuracy. Facebook: We Send 60 Million People to Other Mobile Apps Every Month. When Facebook filed for its IPO earlier this month, it revealed that it has 425 million mobile users.
That massive presence on phones and tablets has translated into success for many others, the social network says, since Facebook's mobile platform sends more than 60 million people to third-party apps every month. In a post on the company's developer blog, Facebook's head of mobile developer relations, James Pearce, says that since Facebook revamped its mobile platform in October last year (which included the launch of its iPad app), it's resulted in a big uptick of users interacting with apps and games outside of Facebook proper. The 60 million people who visit apps from Facebook create more than 320 million "visits" on those apps. While many of those visits are to popular games such as those made by Zynga, Pearce cites the social app Foodspotting as an example of an app success story. 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. One of the great things about TwitterTwitter reviews is that it is a great place to track emerging trends.
When major events or big stories occur, people tweet about it and it inevitably ends up at the top of Twitter Search as a top trend. But this only scratches the surface of tracking Twitter trends. There are a wide variety of web applications, Twitter accounts, and even iPhone apps that can help people do everything from track popular hashtags to graph out recent Twitter trends. As Twitter grows, this information will only become more useful for understanding what is popular at any given moment, or even what was popular in the past. Web-based Applications 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Twitter Accounts 8. twithority: Twithority is an easy way to have the most recent Twitter trends tweeted to you. 9. 10. 11. gtrend: gtrend is short for "Google Trend.
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