Add it up: Twitter takeover
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Rank of Atlanta rapper Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s Twitter page on a list of &-;businesses” with the highest number of Twitter followers: 9-
Rank of CNN: 1-
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Total number of Twitterers following Soulja Boy: 892,491-
Total number of &-;tweets” the rapper - or his handlers - have posted on his Twitter site: 4,412-
Estimated number of tweets worldwide that were related to the Iran protests, following the country’s June 12 election: 79,000-
Estimated percentage of tweets that referenced Michael Jackson in the two hours following the king of pop’s death: 30-
Total number of Twitter members worldwide: 37 million-
Number of other major social-networking sites that have grown faster than Twitter over the past year: 0-
Number of jobs that MySpace was forced to cut following stiff competition from Twitter and Facebook: 300-
Sources: Twibs.com, twitter.com/souljaboytellem, WashingtonPost.com, ColumbusDispatch.com, Mashable.com, NYTimes.com-
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