About Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website that launched on February 4 2004. The website is free to use and allows users to join one or more networks, such as a school, place of employment, or geographic region in order to easily connect with other people in the same network. The name of the website refers to the paper facebooks that depict members of a campus community that some American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while still a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to only Harvard students, but was later expanded to include any university student, then later to high school students, and finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

The website has more than 64 million active users worldwide. From September 2006 to September 2007, the website's ranking among all websites, in terms of traffic, increased from 60th to 7th, according to Alexa. It is also the most popular website for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily. Due to the website's popularity, Facebook has met with a certain amount of criticism and controversy in its short lifespan because of privacy concerns, the politics of its founders, and censorship issues.

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  2. Analyst Angle: Data traffic growth drives the content delivery platform (CDP) market - RCR Wireless News

    Explore Article Mobile Technology (Aug 25 2010)

    Analyst Angle: Data traffic growth drives the content delivery platform (CDP) market - RCR Wireless News ...nt of data they expect to use in a given time. • Capitalize on social media. The growth of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and similar sites underscores how people are continually finding new ways to express thems... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Motricity   AT&T   T-Mobile

  3. Primetime Emmys adds SMS program to engage TV audience

    Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Aug 24 2010)

    Primetime Emmys adds SMS program to engage TV audience ... can download the photos right to Emmys.com.” The text will simultaneously be posted on Twitter and Facebook. “Instead of logging into three networks, it can be sent out automatically through social media sit... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Facebook

  4. Mobile Social Networks Change the Game for Instant Messaging and SMS

    Explore Article Mobile Messaging 2.0 (Aug 17 2010)

    Mobile Social Networks Change the Game for Instant Messaging and SMS ...December 2009 global consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter according to The Nielsen Company. That is an 82 percent increase from the same time th... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   SMS   Facebook

  5. Foursquare. Reality Check

    Explore Article textually.org (Aug 16 2010)

    .... But it will take time. And it's not clear just how much time any of these companies will have. Facebook is rumored to be on the verge of launching its own check-in service. And with a 500-million user he... (Read Full Article)

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  6. Twitter Warms to SMS Tweets With Fast Follow

    Explore Article eweek.com (Aug 11 2010)

    ... get tweets on their phone. Twitter wants to eliminate the barriers to entry to better compete with Facebook. - Twitter, whose tweeting roots lie in SMS messaging from mobile phones, August 10 said it adde... (Read Full Article)

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  7. Delhi traffic police's SMS alerts a huge hit - Delhi - City - The Times of India

    Explore Article The Times of India (Jul 19 2010)

    ...40 subscribers with a majority describing it as a "world class service". NEW DELHI: Its Twitter and Facebook accounts have thousands of followers. Now, the Delhi traffic police's SMS alert service on traffic ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   SMS   Facebook

  8. Cedar Fair uses SMS to drive sales

    Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Jul 6 2010)

    Cedar Fair uses SMS to drive sales ...parks, including Kings Island, Kings Dominion and Dorney Park, are promoting their mobile clubs via Facebook, radio, email newsletters and in-park signage. Consumers who visit the park are encouraged to opt-i... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Rimma Kats   Facebook

  9. Messaging or tennis? | Wireless Week

    Explore Article Wireless Week (Jun 30 2010)

    ...le representative explained, the most dangerous enemy is no longer Orange or Vodafone, it’s Google, Facebook, and Apple. To illustrate this he cited the fact that T-Mobile’s once-successful music download ser... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   T-Mobile   Facebook

  10. Foursquare Banks $20M to Fuel Location-based Service

    Explore Article eweek.com (Jun 30 2010)

    ...le five years ago, appears determined not to go that route after reportedly fending off offers from Facebook and Yahoo. These companies, along Google, Twitter, Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt and others, are all s... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Twitter   Facebook   Starbucks

  11. What Foursquare means for mobile operators – and why we’ll all eventually be the ‘mayor’ of somewhere | Unfiltered

    Explore Article blog.connectedplanetonline.com (Jun 16 2010)

    What Foursquare means for mobile operators – and why we’ll all eventually be the ‘mayor’ of somewhere | Unfiltered ...y we’ll all eventually be the ‘mayor’ of somewhere by Rich KarpinskiJune 15th, 2010 foursquare Like Facebook and Twitter before it, location-based service Foursquare looks to have broken through the backlash ... (Read Full Article)

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  12. Why brands should take advantage of location-based marketing - Mobile Marketer - Columns

    Explore Article Mobile Marketer (Jun 11 2010)

    Why brands should take advantage of location-based marketing - Mobile Marketer - Columns With announcements of Twitter and Facebook adding location to updates and the rise of smaller social networks such as Foursquare and Gowalla, ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Airwide Solutions   Twitter   New York Times

  13. What politicians can learn from mobile marketers

    Explore Article Marketing News (Jun 7 2010)

    ...mple was an area in which the parties competed strongly for bandwidth. Channels such as Twitter and Facebook opened the possibility of speaking to voters directly to capitalise on changes in momentum, particu... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Airwide Solutions   iPhone   Twitter

  14. An Inconceivable Truth: MMS is a Global Success at 30B dollars

    Explore Article Communities Dominate Brands (Jun 1 2010)

    ...feel that the right way to do picture sharing is on a picture sharing social website like Flickr or Facebook. There are those who say that cameraphones are bad cameras. There are those who say MMS settings ar... (Read Full Article)

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  15. GeoLocal: The Rise of Consumer Location-based Services

    Explore Article GigaOM (May 28 2010)

    ...s are all the rage these days, with a core group of startups already fighting for market share. But Facebook, Google and Twitter are hot on their heels. Here's a look at who offers what, and how they aim to m... (Read Full Article)

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  16. Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile, but were afraid to ask

    Explore Article Communities Dominate Brands (May 28 2010)

    ...emember, that all internet users number 1.7 billion and not all of those are active users of email. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace etc are tiny fractions of that number. But SMS text messaging is used by... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   iPhone   AT&T   T-Mobile

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