The record for the highest number of tweets sent during a sporting event has been overturned following extensive activity on the social networking site Twitter during the Super Bowl 2012.

It is understood that 10,000 tweets were sent each second, during the last three minutes of the New York Giants’ 21-17 defeat of the New England Patriots.

In line with a last minute touchdown by the New York Giants, Twitter activity peaked and a recorded 12,233 messages were sent per second.

The half-time performance by Madonna also created a large spike in online activity, with 10,245 posts published each second.

Previous to this, the longstanding record was set when the Denver Broncos triumphed over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2012 NFL playoffs.

This year’s Super Bowl was the first to be streamed online.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Social networking giant Facebook has announced its aim to become a publicly listed company this week.

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, Facebook is now reported to be worth between $75bn (£48bn) and $100bn.

According to the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, Facebook will file papers with the US financial watchdog on Wednesday.

The floatation, which would happen later this year, would raise an estimated $10bn.

Incredibly, this move would be representative of one of the largest share sales seen on Wall Street to date.

In comparison, Google went public in 2004, raising the sum of $1.9bn.

In 2010, automobile manufacturer General Motors raised a staggering $20bn, marking the largest sale to date.

It is understood that Facebook currently makes the majority of its revenue through advertising.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Social networking site Twitter has announced that it now harnesses the technology to selectively delete and block tweets simply based on country.

On Twitter’s official blog, a post revealed the site could now “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country”.

However, the site also stated that certain content would then still be available across the rest of the globe.

This move is deemed especially important for countries such as China where Twitter is currently blocked.

Twitter, as a company, is currently looking to expand its business globally.

The social networking site has always been hailed for its celebration of ‘free speech’.

However, critics have argued that this move goes against its original values.

With more than 100 million active users as of September 2011, it remains to be seen how this censorship will affect Twitter’s popularity.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Social networking giant Facebook is set to add a series of new applications to the service, allowing users to share photographs, fashion or travel information.

It is understood 60 new apps will be added and users will be able to post them on their Facebook profile ‘timeline’.

Following recent additions to the site, users of the social network are able to tell friends about the music they are listening to alongside news articles they have recently read. 

It has been reported that this new selection of apps will include well-known names such as Ticketmaster and Rotten Tomatoes.

However, Facebook has highlighted the fact that users will be able to choose their activity privacy via security settings.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Social networking giant Facebook has partnered with security firm Websense in a bid to combat phishing and malware sites.

From next week, it is understood that users of the social networking site will receive a warning if they are about to enter a malicious website.

More than 700 million users have clicked on dangerous links to external websites via friend’s accounts which have been infected with a virus.

Once the user has clicked on the link and entered the site, personal data such as passwords and account data can be stolen.

Powered by Websense’s ‘Threatseeker Cloud’ system which stores a database of known malicious URL’s, Facebook’s new protocol will go some way towards making the social networking site a safer place to interact.

It is hoped that the introduction of this preventative method will rebuild user trust in the network.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog

Facebook has moved closer to competing with Twitter by including a subscribe button on user’s profile pages. 

The new button allows a user to follow someone else’s public posts without necessarily having to be that person’s friend. 

Celebrity users especially have welcomed the change as Facebook accounts are allowed a maximum of 5,000 friends.

This has forced a number of celebrities to create ‘pages’ for users to ‘like’, meaning that they have had to manage both a profile page and a fan page.

Recently, Facebook has released a number of other changes to make sure it can compete effectively against Google+ and other competitors.

These changes include simplifying its privacy controls, video chat and automated friend grouping. 

Facebook is currently the leader in the social networking arena with over 900 million users and more than a trillion page views each month.

Jamie Stokes is Marketing Assistant at Total Ltd – a business to business service provider, delivering genuine solutions across all core telecommunication services, based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Total Ltd is a business that brings together and unifies all the component parts. For up to the minute business telecommunications news, please view the Total Ltd blog