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Welcome back to the best damn Twitter column on the web ... period. It's Download Squad's Twitter Tuesday! News, apps, and Twitter-based services abound this week, so grab a cup of coffee and strap yourself in. We've got party time at Twitter HQ, Twitter passing MySpace in number of status updates, and lots more...so let's go!
First up: Twitter hired its magical 140th employee this week, and threw a party to celebrate. BT showed up to DJ, and Twitter HQ was rockin'. With the way Twitter's growing, it won't be long before they hire employee #141.
Speaking of Twitter's growth, the (relatively) new kid on the block just passed old-school social networking site MySpace in terms of total status updates, and it's coming up on passing Facebook (although what counts as a status update on FB is a bit harder to define). ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter just passed the 50 million updates/day mark, compared to an estimated 33 million a day for MySpace.
Oooh, burn!
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