Looks Like Facebook Just Took The Top Spot Among Social Media Sites: Facebook’s visitors (221 million) basically matched Blogger’s (225.5 million) by the end of the year.
Study: Twitter users are mobile, urban, and engaged online: In its first look at Twitter, the Pew Internet & American Life Project discovers that Twitter users tend to be younger and more mobile than the general Internet population, but they also consume more news through the Internet and tend to engage in social activities online differently than everyone else.
Pew analyzes the Twitterati, or not: The research firm has some numbers on Twitter usage! But here's the catch: It also counts as "Twitter users" those who update their Facebook or MySpace status.
The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide: The bulk of the book, titled “140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form,” will revolve around eight key lessons from the Twitter universe, such as the importance of simplicity, honesty and humor.
Twitter fends off second clickjacking attack: Twitter fended off a second clickjacking attack on Thursday night as the popular microblogging site plays cat-and-mouse with a prankster, the site confirmed on Friday. [...]
Twitter users first noticed the clickjacking prank on Thursday and later that day Twitter had shut it down. Tweets were popping up that said "Don't Click" followed by a link. Clicking the link took the user to a page that included a button that said "Don't Click." Clicking the button automatically distributed the identical tweet. As you can imagine, this spread pretty quickly.
