Twitter breaks the 200 million monthly active user mark

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More birds seem to be hatching every day.

Twitter tweeted this morning that they had broken the 200 million active user mark, stating that their active users are “the pulse of the planet.” In many ways, this is true as Twitter has been arguably the most relevant method on the internet for finding out what’s happening now around the world. News breaks on Twitter. Fake news breaks on Twitter. What celebrities do on Twitter becomes news. I personally experienced reading a Tweet about an earthquake moments before it hit me. Pulse… indeed.

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This Is How Facebook Is Tracking Your Internet Activity

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Facebook really is watching your every move online.

In testing out a new diagnostic tool called Abine DNT+, we noticed that Facebook has more than 200 "trackers" watching our internet activity.

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Facebook Now Has 955 Million Monthly Active Users

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Facebook has 955 million monthly active users and 552 million daily active users, the company announced today.

When Facebook last reported its user numbers, it had just more than 900 million monthly active users and 525 million daily active users.

Facebook also has 543 million monthly active users on mobile. Facebook reported it had 488 million users on mobile during its IPO road show.

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How to Be Active on Facebook Without Spending Too Much Time

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You’ve heard repeatedly how you need to be active on every established social network, as well as all the new ones coming out, but who has time?

To get the best bang for your time investment, establish a presence only on the most important social networks to your business. Stay focused on the types of participation that will help you achieve your objectives in the shortest amount of time.

The following best practices will help you get the biggest bang out of Facebook without spending a lot of time doing so.

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The FBI Is Now (Officially) Spying on Your Internet Activity

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The FBI has probably been monitoring the web activity of random citizens for quite some time, but today, as Cnet reports, the law enforcement bureau has formed a dedicated unit for the purpose of internet surveillance. But its end goal is a bit different than you may think.

According to Declan McCullough, the National Domestic Communications Assistance Center has a mandate to try and crack skype conversations, analyze internet traffic data, and build wiretapping hardware. But its not for investigations of its own; the goal is to develop new technologies to help make it easier for other law enforcement agencies to spy on us.

Here's what the FBI had to say to Cnet...

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How Active Are Facebook's Millions Of Users?

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Facebook’s monthly active users have climbed to 845 million according to the company’s recent IPO prospectus. Active daily users clock in at just about 483 million.

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Team Building Activities That Actually Work

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You may be familiar with team-building events that promise to generate team spirit and a healthier company culture but actually produce annoyance and ill feelings. Like me, you may have suffered through a ropes course—or worse—but came no closer to your co-workers.

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Internet now active with 2.1 billion users

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Looking at the state of the online world throughout 2011, traffic site Pingdom found that the number of Internet users has jumped from a mere 360 million at the end of 2000 and now accounts for 30 percent of the planet's population.

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Facebook projected to hit 1 billion active users by August

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There are about 6.9 billion people currently living in the world, and Facebook is projected to capture close to 14% of that number by the end of this summer. According to a new study, the Facebook user count will hit 1 billion by the month of August.

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