Tag: USERS

Twitter may be growing in population and volume, but, according to a new study from Cornell University and Yahoo Research, the site still relies upon a small fraction of its users to churn out the majority of its tweets. The site currently boasts around 200 million users and sees about 140 million tweets per day. Half of those, however, are generated by less than 0.05-percent of all Twitter ...

A lot of backs are getting patted over at Facebook headquarters today, as the social network has just passed the vaunted 500 million user mark. It's certainly an incredible milestone, and one that would make most mere mortals ecstatic. According to cyborg CEO Mark Zuckerberg, though, numbers don't really matter. As he explains (in a profoundly creepy cadence), Facebook is much more interested in ...

If your Web site's privacy policy is longer than the entire U.S. Constitution, it's probably a sign that you need to streamline things just a bit. Fortunately for Facebook users, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have finally gotten the hint. After facing a deluge of consumer complaints and confusion surrounding its newly convoluted approach to privacy, Facebook has apparently decided to unveil a set of ...

As much as we love new technology here at Switched, we also sort of hate it. No matter how cool, innovative, or flat out mind-blowing a new device may be, it's equally frustrating when our gadgets, for whatever reason, fail us. But what are the most common issues people have with technology? According to a recent report, they're pretty basic. Consumer Reports recently surveyed over 13,000 of ...

It seems like just yesterday that Facebook announced it had hit 100 million users. Actually, it was a little longer ago than that; in late August, the social networking site stunned the competition by reaching that first milestone, and soon officially surpassing MySpace to become the most popular social network. Now, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced on the company's blog that the ...

Despite the best efforts of tech savvy friends and Web sites (like this one), you, the Web-using public, simply continue your bad browsing habits. A new study shows, and we mean this in the nicest way possible, that you're just not listening. Faculty from the psychology department at North Carolina State University conducted a study in which students were presented with a series of fake Windows ...