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A new study in South Carolina, United States, concluded that those who have accounts on Twitter are more likely to succeed in the diet than those who do not have a Twitter account.
The study was conducted by a number of specialists who work together with the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, reported by Newswise, Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
The results of this study were published after seeing how a group of 96 obese people, including men and women, successful weight loss after a "diet" on Twitter for six months.
How does Twitter work for weight loss?
Previously, the volunteers are encouraged to post status updates on Twitter as the beginning of the study. There is no specific procedure in a tweet, they are free to post what they are doing and feeling.
"Observing traditional behavior patterns in weight loss, moral support and small group meetings proved to be very effective to date. However, it is relatively expensive and it imposes the participants," said one specialist in exposure studies.
"Moral support via online social networking groups can be replaced, less expensive, and can involve more people," he added.
Throughout the six months of "dieting" on Twitter, there were 2630 tweets that have been posted obese participants in this study. Of that amount, 75 percent of tweets are informational, meaning that participants just wanted to tell followers what they eat in a day, and what they avoid.
The rest, tweet-tweet contains moral support (6.6%) and praise (4.6%). "The results show that those who use Twitter as a means to lose weight have been successful," said the specialists concluded.
Want to send a message to the artist or celebrity idol live on Facebook? Then you must be willing to spend deeply. The reason, Facebook will implement a fee for those who want to send messages to people who are not included in the network of friends.
One example is to send a message to Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. Usually, if someone outside the network to send messages friendship, then it will go to the "mailbox" another, which will not necessarily be rewarded or just read.
But in December of last year, Facebook said it would start implementing paid messaging. So if there is anyone who wants to contact Zuckerberg, it will go directly to his personal inbox.
But to enjoy this service, the account owner will be charged. Initially, Facebook has yet to be announced how much it paid.
Mashable site eventually figure it out and find that to write to Zuckerberg, Facebook set a price of U.S. $ 100 or about Rp972 thousand.
The same price applies to compose a letter to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandburg, CFO David Ebersman, and several high-ranking social media pages. "We were testing the highest price to see the spam filtering system work," said the Facebook representative told CNNMoney.
Pay Letter is going to be one source of income Facebook in the future. Previously, most of Facebook revenue comes from advertising. Later, Facebook revenues will be taken directly from a billion members who want to greet celebrities.
Online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is now the news material. Not about the content that was the problem but the problem continues to diminish Wikipedia editors in the last six years.
Recent studies have indicated the University of Minnesota may be due to the departure of the editors of the rules and a new algorithm implemented in 2007.
Quoted from Mashable, Wednesday, January 9, 2013, research published in the journal American Behavioral Scientist looked at 100 random new editor between 2006 and 2010, and found the rejection rate has increased sharply editor.
USA Today wrote, in 2006, Wikipedia has about 50,000 editors English, but now live 35 000 editor. About 15,000 are left.
The researchers found that since 2006, the contribution of new editors who refused to reach 6 percent, while in 2010 to more than 25 percent.
In a glance, it looks like a conflict between the old editor with new editor. But experts simultaneously Wikipedia senior editor, William Beutler see these dynamics as an important maturation of tissue Wikipedia.
According to him again, a reduced number of editors on Wikipedia is a general phenomenon of the previous business grow. "Wikipedia article comes from zero to 4 million articles in about 10 years. Should be noted that Wikipedia growth can not last forever," said Buetler.
Decrease the number of editors, he added, also is a form of natural selection quality editor for Wikipedia. "This is especially because Wikipedia editors find stable arrangement naturally," he said.
The world of technology is currently the focus of the exhibition Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 in Las Vegas, USA. The exhibit features several innovative products and technologies into the image of technological competition next year.
In the bustling CES, Facebook made a surprise. Social networking company made by Mark Zuckerberg released a mysterious invitation to the event January 15, 2013. The event took place in Menlo Park, California, which is the headquarters of Facebook.
In the invitation was delivered to the media, only the printed words "Come and see what we're building."
This invitation led to speculation of what Facebook will be showcased next week. First, look at the time of the event in conjunction with CES 2013, there are those who suspect Facebook is likely to announce the debut of the gadget. Formerly widely heard that Facebook is planning a release of smartphones and operating systems.
Beyond speculation hardware released, Facebook is probably just menungkap update for the iconic design of the platform page. Updates in the form of a single news column design new Facebook timeline. This design has appeared in New Zealand.
Another speculation, as reported by Cnet, Facebook will probably reveal collaboration with other technology companies. One and a half years ago, Facebook had done the same way. And apparently Facebook unveiled a partnership with Skype to video chat services.
Facebook Party declined to give details of the information related to the event.
