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The Women's World Cup final between Japan and the United States set the record for tweets per second, eclipsing the wedding of Prince William and Kate and the death of Osama bin Laden.

A boom in apps has fed longstanding tensions between Twitter and the developers over whether they are partners or competitors.

On Thursday, the computer giant accidentally published a splash page advertising Tulilip - a social project under to the Microsoft-owned domain name socl.com.

Well, now we know that Google+ is the equivalent of Alaska in the social networking world: At least two sites tracking Google+ users say more than 73 percent are male.

LinkedIn’s stock opened at $83 after its IPO was priced at $45 and reached an intra-day high of around $123 on the first day. And then a month of carnage started which saw the stock plummeting by 51% from its all-time high. Even though the stock has impressively recovered, climbing almost 75% from its June 20 lows of $60, we remain fundamentally bearish on LinkedIn.

Google+, the new It girl in the social media world, may surpass 10 million users today, just two weeks after it launched.

Despite new ownership and an injection of Justin Timberlake celebrity cachet, the bad news just keeps coming for Myspace.

Google’s +1 buttons have only been out for about a month, but they’re already more common than the tweet button on major web destinations.

US President Barack Obama is to face question from Twitter users at a White House "town hall" session to be streamed live online.

Could social networking company Facebook Inc.’s big news on Wednesday be a partnership with Internet video calling firm Skype Limited? That’s the word on the street, according to reports. The partnership would allow friends to chat with each other, and potentially give it an edge over Mountain View-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), which has launched its own Google+ social networking service.

Skype and Facebook have both declined to comment. But an announcement is expected at 10 a.m.