This was a good week to be an Android developer, a bad week to be a woman on Facebook, and – if you had $360,000 on hand – your first chance to buy up 50% of the Twitter firehose. (As of right now it’s flowing at about 1,000 Tweets every second.) In our coverage of other top Internet trends, get ready for some location-based cola wars; Sarah Perez reported on how 4G may cost more for Verizon’s mobile customers; and real-time push notifications came to Twitter. Read on for more of this week’s top stories.
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- Twitter to Sell 50% of All Tweets for $360k/Year Through Gnip
- Demand for Android Skills Up 710% from Last Year
- Live Blog: Facebook’s “Not Email” Announcement
- Facebook Confirms Bug Disabled User Accounts, Fix In Progress
- Meet the Firehose Seven Thousand Times Bigger Than Twitter’s
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