As part of Google’s effort to increase its position in real time search engine results, Google will now start indexing and displaying Facebook fan page updates. This should increase traffic for both companies. For instance, Twitter has had a 9 percent increase in numbers of hits since Google started monitoring the service in December 2009. [...]
On Feb. 22, Twitter gave users (and non-users) a report of how much activity has been going on through the service. Since its inception in Jan. 2007, the number of Tweets each day has now grown to the insane amount of almost 50 million. That’s an average of almost 600 per second. Let’s compare that [...]