From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Not yet, but according to Mark Zuckerberg, with an aggressive international growth strategy Facebook will be the first social network to reach the 1 billion user mark. Facebook currently has 500 million users globally, and they predict it will take less than two years to double the number of users.

Because Facebook is already the dominant social network in the western world, their strategy is to compete with established social networks in countries like China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. Facebook has fewer than 1 million users in Russia, so there is potential for huge growth in these markets.

Will Facebook be able to beat everyone to the chase, my guess is they will… They have a huge head start. Only time will tell.

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Do you know who you’re following on Twitter or is it likely a bunch of strangers? Good news, Twitter and Facebook are becoming more tightly integrated. Twitter now lets you add your Facebook information to their find feature and search for your Facebook friends within Twitter.

This new feature lets your find which of your Facebook friends are using Twitter, save them to a list, and follow them instantly. Tweets can also be posted directly to your Facebook page, in addition to your Twitter stream. Facebook is increasing it’s integration with Twitter as well, allowing you to syndicate your Facebook status updates instantly to Twitter.

We’re living in the age of web services and API’s, and content is starting to move fluidly between disparate online services. We’re likely to see more and more sites integrate with Facebook and Twitter very soon.

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