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About a month after Twitter unveiled their new mobile interface at mobile.twitter.com. All the mobile traffic (on the iPhone at least) is being redirect from the old m.twitter.com to mobile.twitter.com. I noticed this at about 1700 +8GMT yesterday. Take a look at some screenshots of the new interface after the jump if you haven't already.

A couple of days ago, the Twitter blog unveiled the top trending topics on twitter in 2009. Here comes Facebook with their very own "top topics" of 2009. The topic mentioned in list include Twitter, FML and Family.

Twitter has just announced it's top Trending Topics of 2009 on it's blog. One of the top trending ones of the year include the Iranian elections. The terms #iranelection, Iran and Tehran were among the top 21 Trending Topics. Coming in top is still the weekly favourite #musicmonday.

A website known as Subscriber Wars lets you find out top, most famous, most followed people on social media networks Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. The list of social media leaders is shown below. The list can be seen below:

Twitter has had quite a year. Not only has it attracted worldwide attention and millions of new users, "Twitter" has been named the top word in the English language for 2009.

According to the Global Language Monitor, which examines language usage across the world, "Twitter" beat out "Obama," "H1N1," "stimulus," and "vampire" to take the crown. Interestingly, "2.0" came in at sixth place.

"In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the aftereffects of a financial tsunami, and the death of a revered pop icon, the word 'Twitter' stands above all the other words," Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, said Sunday in a statement. "Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication is reduced to 140 characters. Being limited to strict formats did wonders for the sonnet and haiku. One wonders where this highly impractical word-limit will lead as the future unfolds."

Click here to see the full list of top words of 2009.

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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

A new study shown that 27 million tweets are sent daily on Twitter. Even if its true, here's hilarious a breakdown which I find quite true.