Just year ago I used to wake up and check performances of my websites, sometimes it was an hour long process to check trackbacks, buzz on Technorati, RSS submissions, Google Analytics, and website backend for comments, submissions, and recent activity. Now it just… who Tweeted me?  

 It is sad but people don’t link your site from their blogs, websites, and social profiles. Almost entire web community moved to Twitter and people prefer to Tweet favorite links, good articles, viral stuff etc. Amount of incoming links dropped dramatically especially in blogoshphere, Darren Rowse mentioned that amount of inbound links dropped dramatically. Even annoying individuals who used to comment and link everyone to make friends moved to Twitter and now they Tweet every website and user they can find.
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Facebook released Facebook Lite version which allow users to see quick and simple updates from their friends and post information. It was made for users with slow internet connection and available in United States and India. Yes, lite version looks like Twitter with quick links on top which allow people to post photo, video, or update status. To access Facebook Lite you need to follow: www.lite.facebook.com.

It is another step to move forward and compete with Twitter. Facebook already introduced live status updates, status tagging, and bought Friend Feed.
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 According Techcrunch, Twitter hired Dick Costolo as COO, he will start next week. Dick Costolo is a founder of Feedburner which was sold to Google for $100 mil back in 2007.

 By August, 2009 Twitter reached almost 50 million unique visitors worldwide and now it struggles to become major online news source. Also, Twitter is looking to generate revenue from their free service. It is belived, that Dick Costolo knowledge and experience in social media will help Twitter to move in right direction and be able to build more features to deliver news and information.
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