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Facebook takes over the world, with over 700m users signed up

Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Facebook’s quest to take over the planet continues, with new figures putting its total user base at a staggering 700,000,000 users worldwide – an astonishing rise from January’s figures of 500m …

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business

The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - by Lee J.

Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.

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web

Freaking Facebook infuriates further with more flipping flaky errors

Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Man oh man, are we getting more and more fed up with freaking Facebook, which is throwing up so many random errors these days that it’s beginning to rival MySpace …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook for Android updated to v1.5.3 with friend tagging

Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Facebook has just slammed down an an update to its official application for Android devices, with the shiny new version 1.5.3 serving up a rather small side salad of newness, …

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web

Freaking Facebook fecks about with the Select All Friends function again

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J. - 5 Comments.

Already the buggiest site on the whole internet as far as we’re concerned (it’s the only site that regularly crashes every day without fail on our Chrome/Windows 64 bit system), …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook for Android updates to v1.5.2, we still prefer TweetDeck

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

Facebook have just updated their official Android app to version v1.5.2, slapping down a variety of tweaks and a few usability enhancements.

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mobiles / web

Facebook now used by half of the entire UK population

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Facebook has announced that it is now used by 30 million people in the UK, effectively reaching an astonishing half of the population.

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mobile apps / mobiles

Brits: hopelessly hooked on Facebook on mobiles

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

A new study reveals just how much time us Brits spend gazing at Facebook when we’re out and about with our mobile phones (or, more likely, shirking at work).

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Android / mobiles

HTC get social with two Facebook phones, ChaCha and Salsa

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Aimed at social networking fiends, HTC’s new ChaCha and Salsa phones sport dedicated Facebook buttons for super-quick access to those vital status updates and posts from friends.

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web

Facebook now rules the world: it’s official [infographic]

Thursday, Jan 13, 2011Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 - by Pete Railton

There’s no other way of describing it it: the world really is being taken  over by Facebook. As of now, Facebook has a staggering 500,000,000 active users – that’s one …

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Facebook bags 44% of online sharing, MySpace continues path to oblivion

Thursday, Dec 30, 2010Thursday, Dec 30, 2010 - by mike s

Huzzah! It looks like we’ve got time for one more infographic before the year’s out, and this one comes filled with facts from the sharing widget AddThis, which is installed …

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Facebook suffers a 'site issue'
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Facebook is unavailable due to a ‘site issue’

Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010 - by Lee J. - 3 Comments.

It seems that an awful lot of people are currently unable to access their Facebook accounts – and we’re one of them.

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook app for iPhone and iPod touch gets updated

Monday, Dec 20, 2010Monday, Dec 20, 2010 - by Lee J.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch-toting Facebook fiends will be pleased to learn that a new update to the app has just blasted out of Facebook’s labs.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook Android update adds chat and push notifications

Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 - by Pete Railton

The Facebook app for Android had been an object of high comedy and mirth for a long time, but with Facebook finally taking the thing seriously, there’s been some big …

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Facebook’s global relationships visualised in a natty map

Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

This fascinating map tracking Facebook relationships has been put together by Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook’s spoddy sounding ‘data infrastructure engineering team’ (we bet they’re a  heap of fun …

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