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Nintendo’s Miitomo App Has Over 4 Million Users Monthly
Nintendo’s first foray into the realm of smartphone apps, Miitomo created a lot of fuss when it was first released last month. Even so, it managed to garner a surprisingly sizable userbase for a simple app based around Nintendo’s “Mii” characters, with SurveyMonkey estimating that over 4 million users who use…
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Facebook Tagging Violates Protective Orders
Remember when you kept getting tagged in all those status? How about when you were tagged in pictures which didn’t even contain you? Sometimes it can get a little annoying, and sometimes it can go beyond reasonable. A judge has now ruled though that if you are meant to stay…
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Whatsapp Was Temporarily Banned in Brazil
One day after a court order in Sao Paulo banned the popular social messaging app for the entire nation of Brazil, WhatsApp is back in action across the country. In a decision that is likely bringing relief to the 93 million strong user base of WhatsApp in Brazil, Judge Xavier…
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Millions Unaware that Facebook is on the Internet
Millions of Facebook users across the globe seem unaware that their favourite social network is on the internet. Researcher Helani Galpaya first noticed the discrepancy three years ago, examining focus group data she’d collected that showed that more people claimed to use Facebook than they did the internet. Galpaya spoke…
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New Twitter Users to Follow Accounts Without Following Them
The CEO of Twitter revealed today that new users of the social networking site will be able to generate a pre-populated following stream, without following anyone in the first place. Dick Costello’s announcement came most probably as a result of the fact that over 500 million Twitter accounts sit largely…
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