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Happy Birthday Twitter, you are 3 years old now and still online. It all started on 21st of March 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, together with Evan Williams, Biz Stone and others, created a social media company that has grown over 1300% in the last year.

According to a post on Nielsen Wire, unique visitors to Twitter.com increased 1,382 percent year over year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009. This growth earned it the title of “fastest growing member community site,” a term that encompasses not just social networks but any online community – even one such as online wiki community Wikia, which, incidentally, came in at number five on the list. Zimbio and Facebook followed Twitter, growing 240 percent and 228 percent, respectively.

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Dear Friends and Visitors,

I started slowing down lately on my personal blog because I have launched another dedicated blog where I will give the time I used to spend on this blog to the new one. That why I will be barely posting new stuff here, but I will do my best to keep on posting few from time to time.

I am sure you want to know about the new blog, it is called www.LEBtraders.net, Lebanon’s online community network of online stock traders, where Lebanese traders can connect with each other and share technical analysis, trading ideas, news and views, create blog posts and upload charts.

I will do my best to build this community network the proper way, you are welcome to join, chat and even post to the blog anything related to stock trading.

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StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data – using Twitter as the content production platform – and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.

Log into the site with your Twitter details and you will be presented with a user interface filled with comments and stats showing the top ticker buzz, the top StockTwit talkers, and the top gainers and losers.

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xing_logo.PNGXing, the German-based social networking platform, has reached 2 million users.

Xing has attributed their milestone to growth in an International market. With their recent acquisition of eConozco, the Spanish-based social networking site for business professionals, Xing’s global reach is expanding. A steady growth rate has been seen across the board for Xing’s online properties, and they aim to connect the US and Europe to create a very global business network.

Xing also plans to launch several new features including an API, which began its closed test phase in March. The release of their Marketplace will occur in the coming months. Xing is also looking to add an improved search feature, an Address Book 2.0, as well as optimized member profiles this year as well. With the growing global market, a professional network such as Xing may be placing themselves in an ideal position to take business networking to the next level.

Source: Mashable.com