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Monday, August 02
On Saturday, Twitter hit 20 billion tweets. Not bad for a service that’s only been around since 2006.
Wednesday, July 28
The Guardian mourns the passing of the world’s oldest Twitter user:
Ivy Bean, 104, began tweeting last year from her residential home in the outskirts of Bradford, and amassed over 56,000 followers with posts telling of food, family visits, and even an invitation from Gordon Brown to meet the then prime minister in Downing Street.
Ivy had fallen ill last month, and her followers had been kept updated by Pat, the manager of Hillside Manor, over the last few weeks. It was Pat who bore the bad news today.
“Ivy passed away peacefully at 12.08 this morning,” she wrote just after 10am, adding: “I’m sorry it took me so long to tell you but it was a very difficult thing to do”.
Wednesday, June 23
Yesterday, Apple announced it had sold three million iPads. That’s a lot of tablets — especially since the device was only released 80 days ago.
Monday, May 17
Five years ago, a little video site called YouTube was launched with a single video called, simply, “Me at the zoo.”
Today, YouTube is the world’s third-most visited website, and averages 2 billion — yes, billion — video views a day. As the official YouTube blog notes, that’s close to double the amount of prime-time viewers for the three big TV networks combined.
Wednesday, April 07
After nearly three decades, the worldwide high score for the classic video game Asteroids has finally been toppled. Wired has the scoop:
On Saturday, John McAllister sat down at a friend’s house near Portland, Oregon to play a game of Asteroids. By Monday, he was still playing.
At 10:18 p.m. Pacific, he scored 41,338,740 points, a new all-time high score. In doing so, he beat a record that has stood for over 27 years.
All told, it took McAllister 58 hours — of continual playing — to beat the record.
Wednesday, March 24
How big is mobile Internet becoming? According to Ericsson, very big:
Mobile data surpassed voice on a global basis during December of 2009, Ericsson announced today at the CTIA Wireless 2010 convention in Las Vegas. This finding is based on Ericsson measurements from live networks covering all regions of the world.
Ericsson’s findings show that data traffic globally grew 280% during each of the last two years, and is forecast to double annually over the next five years. The crossover occurred at approximately 140,000 Terabytes per month in both voice and data traffic. The data traffic increase is contributing to revenue growth for operators when more and more consumers use data traffic generating devices such as Smartphones and PCs. During the same period, Ericsson measurements show that traffic in 3G networks surpassed that of 2G networks.
While such a milestone is impressive, GigaOm wonders if the increased use of mobile broadband will lead to trouble down the road:
[T]hat data traffic was generated by an estimated 400 million smartphones set against 4.6 billion mobile subscribers making voice calls. What happens when everyone has a smartphone?
Wednesday, March 03
Via Mashable, popular micro-blogging service Twitter is counting down to 10 billion — that’s right, billion — “tweets.” The punchline: the company has only been around since 2007.
Thursday, February 25
Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded 10 billion — yes, billion — songs from the company’s iTunes service. Even more staggering: It took just seven years.
Friday, January 22
Today popular micro-blogging service Twitter officially achieved otherworldly status, as NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station posted their first tweet from zero gravity.
Monday, September 28
Apple has released some staggering new numbers about its application store for iPhone and iPod touch. There are now 85,000 different apps available, with an average of 6.3 million of them downloaded each and every day. The total number of apps downloaded since the app store was launched? More than two billion.
Wow.
Monday, August 17
Wikiepedia, the free online encyclopedia built upon the research and knowledge of users, has reached three million English articles. The winning article: A brief biography of Norwegian actress Beate Eriksen.
Thursday, June 04
In far happier—if disastrous for productivity—anniversary news, this week marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of Tetris. Scientific American marks the occasion:
Creator Alexey Pajitnov at the Moscow Academy of Science programmed the iconic falling-block game in June 1984 for a Soviet computer system called Electronika, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The Reuters news agency cites June 6 as the date that the first playable version of the game was born.
“The program wasn’t complicated,” Pajitnov told the U.K.‘s Guardian newspaper. “There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn’t stop. That was it.”
Friday, April 24
For the past few weeks, Apple has been counting down to its one billionth download of an application for its popular iPhone. Today, the company has announced that they’ve reached the mark, along with the person who hit it. From the press release:
Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest, Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes® gift card, an iPod® touch, a Time Capsule® and a MacBook® Pro.
Thursday, April 02
Online DVD deliverer Netflix has announced it recently delivered its 2 billionth DVD—and they reached that number in just under 10 years. GigaOm does the math:
Using a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation, that works out to an average of 605,326 DVDs a day or about 25,221 DVDs an hour, 420 DVDs a minute or 7 DVDs every second.
Now that’s impressive.
Friday, March 13
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