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Speediest Social Media Sites

Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011. The findings are based on data collected by SmartBear’s AlertSite, which monitors the home pages of these five sites

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The MySpace puppies hack that wasn’t

Early on Friday, visitors of the MySpace website were presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked. We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back …now. * Have your pet spayed or neutered.

 
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NYPD’s Social Media Unit Will Track Criminals On Facebook, Twitter

The NYPD has formed a new social media unit, The New York Daily News reports, to catch criminals who use Facebook and Twitter to announce law-breaking plans or to brag about their latest crime. In June, an overcrowded house party in East New York, Brooklyn that was advertised on Facebook as “Freaky Friday” ended in

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What Twitter Can Learn From Facebook

Post from Mashable authored by Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is the founder and former president of MySpace. MySpace sold in 2005, and Anderson left the company in early 2009. You can find him on Google+, Twitter or Facebook. Sometimes when you follow a trend, you fall flat on your face. Early adopters of Google+ have

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A direct message from Twitter Administration. Can you tell if it’s legitimate or not?

For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace. Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter. Twitter-er! You

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LinkedIn Surpasses Myspace For U.S. Visitors To Become No. 2 Social Network; Twitter Not Far Behind

Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen a resurgence of traffic after its IPO in May, reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June compared to Myspace, which saw 33.5

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