The Use Of Twitter By The Teen Demographic

Yeah, yeah, yeah—I’m sure we can all name some anecdotal evidence of teens who either hate Twitter or who can’t get off it. But by and large, according to a new Nielsen report, teens just aren’t on Twitter. Or are they? The chart from the report looks at users on Twitter.com (as opposed to on phones or desktop clients):

Facebook Updates Open Stream APIs

Facebook has just announced some updates to the Open API Stream. Among these are simpler JavaScript methods for publishing, Facebook Pages support, and attribution. A spokesperson for Facebook tells Webproworld:

Report: One-Fourth Of All Tweets Generated By Bots

A lot of activity on Twitter might well consist of bots talking to each other, according to a new report.  Sysomos - which last month pointed out that 5 percent of Twitter's users account for 75 percent of the site's activity - has now indicated that many of the most dedicated users aren't human. 

Google Makes Chrome Faster

Google has released a new beta version of Chrome today, which the company says is much faster and improves upon the tab page and Omnibox features. It also comes with some new options for themes.

Wall Street Journal’s Interesting Take On Embargoes

It’s been eight months since TechCrunch announced that they would no longer honor embargoes, with several other sites jumping on that bandwagon in the interim. One of the issues here was undermining the credibility of the blogosphere at large. As Trisha Lyn Fawver put it,