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The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0 , but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month (according to data from Quantcast). Go here to see the original: WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts

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A group calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army” hijacked and defaced Twitter last night. Here’s the message they posted on the front page: Iranian Cyber Army THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To…. NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA? WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;) Take Care. Twitter says the problem was due to compromised DNS records,...

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INQ Mobile recently conducted a study to determine the most influential Twitter users of 2009. They have released the top 20 most influential for the U.K. and internationally. They measured influence across five categories including entertainment, music, politics, sport and technology. Here are the top 20 international influencers. Click over to INQ to read the U.K. top 20. Pete Cashmore – CEO Mashable P. Diddy – Entertainer Stephen Fry – Entertainer Oprah Winfrey – Entertainer Kim Kardashian – Entertainer Ellen DeGeneres...

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There has been much discussion of late about advertising on Twitter. To many, the idea of “sponsored tweets” or other monetizing methods is sacrilegious and defiles Twitter’s intended purpose. Companies like ad.ly are beginning to pick up steam and the controversy surrounding Twitter advertising is picking up steam as well. Shivsingh over at Social Media Today wrote an interesting piece looking at the opportunities and risks with Twitter advertising. One of the biggest warnings I hear from those opposed to Twitter ads is that users simply will not accept them. Allowing ads on your Twitter...

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Check out Twitter’s new headquarters in San Francisco. It looks pretty sweet. It even has a DJ booth.

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