The exponential growth of Twitter in 2010 is just one of the gems in a Sysomos study on the state of the Twitterverse in 2010. The study shows that nearly 44% of the total number of users on Twitter joined between January and mid-August. By comparison, users who had joined before January 2009 only accounted for 4.7% of the total population. The study found that more people are disclosing personal

Valuable social networking presentation for the News21 Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education. It’s by Jeremy Rue, multimedia training instructor for the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. (Via Graphicdesignr)

The newspaper watchdog in the UK, the Press Complaints Commission, is stepping into the debate over the use of material from social networking sites. The head of the body, Tim Toulmin, told the BBC that the organisation has commissioned research to find out if people are aware that material they upload could be used by journalists. It follows complaints to the PCC from people about material used by the press