Facebook verified application and fbFund winner GroupCard reports an increase to their application's "About" page since verification.
Applications were intermittently unavailable to a large number of users for a few hours over the weekend. The issue appeared to affect some users more than others across all applications.
80% of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 followers, and 30% have none whatsoever. Is Twitter about being social or predominantly a broadcast medium?
Regional networks were very much a legacy of Facebook's college origins, and it seems that they've outgrown what little usefulness they had.
It's still unclear who much revenue Facebook can make with its payment system but including advertising revenue the company is hoping to be cashflow positive "really soon". The full interview is worth a read, and more information on the Facebook payment platform here.
Techcrunch pulled together a lot of numbers, crunched them, and that was one of their conclusions. Other include:
- the entire social network industry is worth $27.1 billion
- the three most valuable markets based on value-per-user are the UK ($213), Australia ($148), Denmark ($144) with the US only coming in 4th
- if Facebook is worth $10bn then Twitter is "only" worth $1.7bn
in an easy answer to the question of how Facebook can grow when it approaches saturation of the user base it shows a huge increase in usage.
Facebook Connect pushing into new devices: Ninentdo DSi and Xbox
Connect support is planned for the Nintendo DSi for the summer and the Xbox later in the year.
Three applications have been seen trialling Facebook's new payment platform which enables application monetisation using Facebook as the holder of the user's credit card details.