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Tags: facebook, fb friend power, fb new feature, social sites, super friends

Facebook is getting complicated. The social network just introduced the category of “trusted friend,” not to be confused with the prior categories of “close friends,” “acquaintances,” “restricted” buddies, and authorized stalkers. Trusted friends are like super-friends.
They have special powers!

If you get locked out of your Facebook account, three to five “Trusted Friends” can send you access codes.

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Tags: Dick Costolo, facebook, Google, twitter, Zynga

Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, says talk of a $10bn (£6.2bn) acquisition of the messaging company by Google is “just a rumour” and that the site is already making money.

Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Costolo asked whether Google could afford a $10bn acquisition – following rumours that this was the price being considered by the search engine firm for the messaging startup. “People write that stuff all the time … I don’t know where these things come from, it’s just a rumour.” He fell short of an outright denial, however.

Costolo also suggested that Twitter, which started operations in February 2006, will this year introduce a new method of making money, to add to its existing roster of promoted tweets, accounts and trends. However, he did not specify what that would be.

More on Guardian.co.uk

Tags: community, facebook, facebook features, location based, twitter, twitter features

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users’ News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services. Twitter already has a geolocation feature that has been spotted in the wild. Meanwhile, social location upstart Foursquare will offer a free analytics tool and dashboard to give business owners information and statistics about visitors to their establishments. Google is also heavily invested in the future of location and social networking.

Facebook is expected to enable location sharing in its users’ News Feeds, a move that could automatically make the social network the dominant platform for location-based Web services.

A March 9 report in the New York Times cited sources saying Facebook would announce the news at its F8 developer conference, slated for April 21 and 22 in San Francisco.

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Tags: community, facebook, facebook users, social sites, world population

That’s right. Facebook says it now has 120 million members. By my reckoning, that’s 2% of the world’s 6 billion people.

If you think that’s astonishing, consider that there’s still plenty of low hanging fruit for Facebook to pluck. I know plenty of tech savvy people, many of them under 30, who have yet to sign up. Inevitably, these people will give in.

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