3 posts and columns on TPS

Twitter Sees 600 Tweets-Per-Second #OMG #YeahButWheres TheBusinessModel

in Social on February 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT

In 2007, Twitter broadcast about 5,000 tweets per day. Just three years later, it is broadcasting some 50 million–about 600 tweets per second. In a TPS report filed today, Kevin Weil of the Twitter analytics team points out that tweets grew 1,400 percent last year, offering further proof that there’s still no end to the microblogging service’s growth.

Real Networks Share Price No Longer *BUFFERING*

in News on January 14, 2010 at 10:58 am PT

Investors have met the decision of RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser to step down as CEO with a ringing endorsement. At $4.54, the company’s shares are trading over 17 percent higher on the news, which spiked the stock to a 52-week high of $4.59 Wednesday when it was announced.
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RealNetworks’s Internal Layoff Memo

in News on November 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported in BoomTown that RealNetworks would sack four percent of its workforce–70 employees out of its 1,700-person staff. After the jump, the official internal memo from RealNetworks Founder, Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser, breaking the bad news.
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