Marketing research firm Nielsen has some stats on the habits of UK social networking users, and it once again shows that social networks, for the most part, adhere to the Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule).
Taking a page out of Facebook’s open strategy, Twitter has launched a new page which highlights the open source projects that the company has released or contributed to.
In this post from the blog "The Innovation Diaries", the author tries to categorize people's tweets into a hierarchy resembling Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for human beings. Each category is well explained and then illustrated by a few examples.
Denise Pires, a student from University of Amsterdam, wrote in the blog "Masters of Media" about why we, as human beings, tend to use the well-known microblogging service.
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