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Twitter, facebook and youtube are growing rapidly

April 21, 2009 – 6:02 am

From Mashable:
In March, YouTube reached 100 million monthly viewers in the US. 6.3 billion videos were viewed on the site. MySpace, the social network that used to break records like these, is now lagging behind Facebook; according to latest calculations, Facebook now has a total of 65.7 million unique visitors versus MySpace’s 54.1 million. MySpace was sold to News Corp. for $580 million in 2005. Facebook’s valuation? [...]

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How Obama uses Twitter and other social media tools

October 23, 2008 – 2:41 pm

Barack Obama has over 100,000 followers on twitter. According to Twitterholic, that’s a lot more than anyone else. On Facebook, Obama has 2.2 million “friends” compared to 745,000 for McCain. On MySpace, Obama has 588,000 friends compared to McCain’s 188,000.
Twitter is just part of a highly successful internet strategy which also includes wikis, youtube and [...]

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