Social networking has experienced an explosion in popularity online; by the end of 2007 there are expected to be 230 million active memberships to such online sites. MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr are some of the main networks online, but there are many different variants, catering for a huge variety of different tastes and activities. Recently, both the social networking industry and telecoms and media industries have started looking at how such services and user-generated content can be commercialised on mobile. Twitter is just one of a raft of new mobile social networking services th
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