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Twitter has been one of the biggest internet crazes of the past year. Twitter was created in 2006, but its biggest growth spurt started near the end of 2008. Although their growth is strong, the number of new visitors that Twitter retains is fairly low. Further, in using the CB radio analogy to describe Twitter, there is a great deal of static over the air waves.
Facebook announced that they have agreed to acquire FriendFeed, but the terms of the agreement were not released. It appears the twelve member FriendFeed team will join Facebook, but Facebook’s press release indicates that their long term plan for FriendFeed product has not yet been made.
It appears the second Twitpocalypse is due to hit around the end of September. Why so soon? Why at all?
Back in June, Twitter faced its first, so called, Twitpocalypse. It was blown a bit out of proportion and described somewhat inaccurately. The problem did not affect Twitter itself, but rather some of the third party applications written to access Twitter
The Google Wave product preview will be expanding beyond developers on September 30, 2009 adding another 100,000 users in addition to the developers currently using Wave. According to a recent post on the Google Wave Developer Blog, the new users will be added from people who signed up and offered to test and report bugs.
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