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MICRO-BLOGGING SITE Twitter says it now has 100 million active users.
The social media company announced its new user figures on its blog yesterday.
It is five years since the first ‘tweet’ was sent by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey (@jack) to just seven followers. He now has over 1.7 million followers.
According to the blog posting, more than half of the 100 million users log into the site each day. However, not everyone ‘tweets’. Some 40 per cent of active users just sign in to read what everyone else is writing about.
In the coming weeks, Twitter plans to launch Hindi, Filipino, Malay and Chinese versions, which will mean the site will support 17 different languages.
Famous users
Twitter has become a social media haven for well-known personalities and world leaders.
According to the company’s blog, 35 heads of state use Twitter, while religious leaders such as the Pope and Dalai Lama also ‘tweet’.
Athletes, musicians and other entertainers have also graced Twitter with their presence. The firm claims that 87 per cent of the Billbaoard’s Top 100 musicians of 2010 and every NFL team are active on the site.
Celebrities often use the site to release information about their personal lives or ‘tweet’ images to avoid media frenzy. Wayne Rooney famously tweeted a picture of his new hair transplant in June.
According to the bLog, some momentous news stories have also “broken” on Twitter with most major newsrooms using it to supplement reporting efforts. It has allowed for ordinary citizens to give their views on what is happening in the world.
In case you’re wondering, TheJournal.ie is there too – @thejournal_ie.
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These floods have been going on for the last 3 days and the journal are the first to do a story on it, nothing in any of the other news sites
They’re trying to find a way to link it to Putin first.
Sad
You would think that when you can’t see the massive propaganda against Russia at the moment.
Do you actually believe that they are trying to link Rainfall to Putin?
No it was a joke ffs…
Albeit a bad one at that.
Joe, congratulations for being the first to link this to Putin.
Thank you Journal for sharing story on this. I contacted you last night about it so is very appreciated. I hope you keep covering it as situation is very bad and people need help. Badly. We are trying to organise something from Ireland but we have very little knowledge how to do it except privately sending small amounts of money which is not really help in moment as they need water, food, nappies etc for next few nights. Looks like all help or most of it is coming from few countries ( Russia among first) and ex Yugoslavian from other countries. Croatia and Slovenia send help as well even there is big risk in Croatia for same happening to them. Any further media cover keep donation to this people so thank you very much for it.
They need to get going on climate change mitigation soon as the situation is not going to get any better – it is not as if this was not predicted with a warming climate in the region. Big floods in Germany around the Danube last year when I was there too. Warmer air holds more moisture and leads to heavier rain and more storms – one of the basics of climate and meteorology. Every country needs to start mitigation work against the worst effects of climate change, because it is here now and it is not going away.
Geo engineering at its evil best
Proof?
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