Micro-blogging service Twitter is gaining 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts a day and most of its users have joined this year, according to a study released on Tuesday.

Mark Guim over at The Nokia Blog has been looking at Nokia location and micro-blogging tool Friend View and noted a few issues with the service. The main problem he has found is that not enough of his close friends are using Friend View for it to be worth his time. In the comments

I already have Twitter, Jaiku, and Facebook. So why should I use Nokia’s Friend View? According to Nokia’s overview, it is a location and micro-blogging service that helps you stay in touch with your close friends. My problem with that is that my most of close friends don’t have Nokia handsets. Here’s a video of Friend

Since its launch as a private beta test on December 1st 2008, geo-localised social network and micro-blogging mobile application BuddyMob has reached the top 5 on the Android Market in the social category. To date, the BuddyMob beta trial has experienced over 10,000 download requests and currently has more than 5,118 active community members. Free to use, BuddyMob is ad-funded by using a

Since its launch as a private beta test on December 1st 2008, geo-localised social network and micro-blogging mobile application BuddyMob has reached the top 5 on the Android Market in the social category. To date, the BuddyMob beta trial has experienced over 10,000 download requests and currently has more than 5,118 active community members. Free to use,

Core Facts London, UK, 11 December 2008: Since its launch as a private beta test on December 1st 2008, geo-localised social network and micro-blogging mobile application BuddyMob has met and exceeded its download target, reached the top 5 on the Android Market in the social category and had rave reviews from users. Within hours of the ...

Microsoft is hosting Mobius, a conference that is by invitation only for a select few, for the second time this year, which the press has dubbed Winter Mobius. While attendees are under non-disclosure agreements for the privilege to attend, here is what ZDNet is that there are concerns from attendees who are micro-blogging on Twitter about their concerns for the lack of integration between Windows...

According to The Guardian, there has been a mixed reaction to the BBC's use of live reports from micro-blogging service Twitter in its coverage of the Mumbai terror attacks. BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann has added his thoughts to the debate, including an admission that the corporation will need to take more care in how it uses lightening fast, unsubstantiated citizen posts from Twitt...

BuddyMob caught my attention. I’ve been looking for an Android IM client — and it appears that is BuddyMob… and thensome. The release states that: BuddyMob is a single tool that enables continuous contact with friends via instant messaging, geo-tagged multimedia content sharing, micro-blogging, positioning on GoogleMaps, and a live instant feed to and from

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has started an account on the Twitter micro-blogging service, but it is not know if the politician maintains the account in person.