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• MySpace loses 49% of visitors in 12 months

  MySpace has only half as many visitors as it had last year, says ComScore.

• Analyst Phil Hassey tweets out of Springboard

  Well regarded Sydney-based IT industry analyst, Phil Hassey, has announced being made redundant as vice president of Springboard Research on Twitter and other social networking portals.

• Fake femme fatale shows social network risks

  Hundreds of people in the information security, military and intelligence fields recently found themselves with egg on their faces after sharing personal information with a fictitious Navy cyberthreat analyst named "Robin Sage," whose profile on prominent social networking sites was created by a security researcher to illustrate the risks of social networking.

• Twitter moving into its own data center

  Twitter hopes to improve the reliability of its service by moving into its own, custom-built data center later this year, the company said on Wednesday.

• Twitter battles fail whale with new data center

  Tired of getting a fail whale when you try to tweet or simply try to log onto Twitter ?

• Social media policy isn't all about IT: CIOs

  A panel of CIOs have agreed developing a workplace social media policy around the use of sites like Twitter is not exclusively an IT issue.

• Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers

  The recurrent technical problems that have affected Twitter for the past seven weeks have also taken a toll on developers of external applications built for the microblogging service.

• Companies not using social nets at risk, report says

  A majority of consumers want to interact with companies over social networks like Facebook and Twitter, but only 30 per cent of businesses are prepared for it, according to a survey.

• Microsoft Outlook pulls in Facebook status updates

  You can now check your Facebook status updates and add friends within Microsoft Outlook, thanks to an update to the Outlook Social Connector plugin.

• Zendesk integrates Twitter into customer service app

  Zendesk has upgraded its Web-based help desk software to simplify and automate how its users capture, analyze and respond to public Twitter messages that merit a customer-service response.

• My Enterprise 2.0 Rollout: 4 Keys to Success

  Early this year, executives at Philips, a global healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle business, initiated talks on selecting and deploying an enterprise 2.0 suite for its 100,000 employees worldwide.

• Twitter to promote special offers from marketers

  The program, called @earlybird, is part of Twitter's efforts to generate revenue from advertising

• Twitter to promote marketers' special offers

  Twitter has introduced another advertising service, hoping to generate revenue this time by promoting special offers, events and one-time deals from marketers.

• Workplace social networking rises despite lack of guidelines

  A new report has found employers expect to see an increase in the use of social networking tools despite a lack of IT policies being created around the use of sites like Twitter and Facebook by both staff and management teams.

• Social networking ever more critical to job search success

  Jobvite, a maker of recruiting software, released the results of its third-annual social recruiting survey this morning, and the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches.