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11 Million Facebook Users Flock to Virtual Farming Daily
The rise of social gaming is happening more quietly than one might think given the statistics. Today we’re hearing about another potential milestone: Facebook application FarmVille claims to be the fastest growing social game in history, reaching an impressive 11 million daily users in a little over two months.
To put that in perspective, World of Warcraft is the largest massively multiplayer game that dominates MMO marketshare with at last report 11.5 million active subscribers. Its publisher Blizzard hasn’t revealed any new population statistics since the end of last year, but assures the press that its figures are still growing. It took WoW four years to reach that many subscribers after its launch in late 2004.
Compare that to FarmVille, which only launched June 19 of this year. If its daily active stats are accurate, that would mean FarmVille is close to rivaling industry-leading World of Warcraft’s player numbers in only a little more than two months. Perhaps it has already eclipsed the elephant in the social gaming room if you look at its monthly stats, which boast 30 million active users.
Of course, it’s a little bit like comparing apples and oranges. WoW is an incredibly deep and detailed role-playing game often requiring exorbitant amounts of time to master and keep up with. FarmVille is a far more casual, pick-up-and-play for a few minutes type of virtual farm sim embedded in your Facebook page. It stands to reason that if you’re a Facebook user who plays the game, and you tend to check your Facebook account every day, you’ll probably spend at least a few minutes checking up on your virtual farm as well.
That’s exactly what the game’s developer, Zynga, is betting on. The largest social gaming company in the market to date, Zynga claims 27 million daily users across all its game titles on a multitude of social networks including Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Hi5, and more, as well as on the iPhone.
FarmVille and many of its other titles make money through virtual goods sales, where players spend real dollars to buy virtual currency or items in the game. Virtual item sales are already an enormous market opportunity, with an estimated $2 billion in sales last year. And that number is expected to grow.
Do you play FarmVille or other social games on Facebook or other social sites? Do you think these kinds of casual games and the virtual goods sales business model will continue to grow on social networks? Let us know in the comments.
Reviews: Hi5, MySpace, facebook
Tags: browser games, casual gaming, facebook, farmville, microtransactions, social gaming, virtual goods, Zynga
10 Fabulous Free Social Apps for Mac
If you’re a Mac user and a social media addict, what’s better than social apps for the Mac? Free social apps for the Mac, of course!
In this post we’ll take a look at 10 gratis programs for connecting to your social world via OS X. From file sharing to instant messaging, from Twitter to social television, there is very likely something on this list for you.
Do you know of any great free social Mac applications that are not listed? Let us know about them in the comments.
1. Dropbox
Looking for a dead easy way to share even large files with people quickly? Check out Dropbox, a great utility app for the Mac (it actually runs on Windows and Linux as well) that essentially gives you 2 free GB of unrestricted cloud file storage.
A bit of a Swiss army-knife type of app, Dropbox does a lot of other things besides file-sharing. It can serve as a great automatic backup utility for important files as well as one of the easiest ways to synchronize a set of files between two computers, even across platforms. You also get a web-based interface for accessing your files, which is useful if you’re using a machine without Dropbox installed.
Further, you can increase the amount of your free space by 250 MB for every new user you refer to the service. Anyone who signs up via a referral link also gets an extra 250 MB.
2. Skitch
We really can’t rave enough about Skitch (we recently profiled it in our fun image generators list). Part screen capture tool, part easy doodling app, Skitch is also a dead simple way to quickly share screencaps, images and illustrations with others.
Included in the cost of this free app is server space for file storage, so in one click you can send an image to the web. There are privacy controls for your images as well, so you can make specific things public, or keep them private from anyone who doesn’t know the URL. You can even get an embed code or forum URL if desired.
Skitch also keeps a history trail of the images you send to the web for later retrieval and you can set it up to upload your pics to your own FTP server instead of the Skitch servers.
3. TweetDeck
Everybody has their favorite Twitter client, and the one I keep coming back to always seems to be TweetDeck. It’s certainly worth doing the TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop head to head comparison for yourself (as well as checking out some of the other Twitter clients out there), but the interface and functionality of the former has won me over.
It’s got all the standard features you’d expect like inline URL shortening and the ability to send and receive tweets, plus goodies like multiple columns, groups, multiple account management, Twitscoop trends, short URL previews, and even a way to sync multiple instances of TweetDeck between different machines and your iPhone.
Disclosure: TweetDeck partnered with Mashable to create MashDeck, a branded version of the software.
4. Gruml
Gruml is a desktop application that synchronizes with Google Reader for feed reading and brings many of the social features of gReader along with it. There are some who think RSS’s usefulness has been usurped by things like Facebook and Twitter, but to many it’s still the bread and butter method of staying up to date on what’s going on in their field.
Gruml brings the Google Reader RSS experience to your desktop and includes its social features like starring, liking, and sharing posts with notes and/or tags. You can also see headlines from stories that your friends have shared with you.
Gruml also comes with built-in Twitter integration, letting you tweet articles directly from the app itself after conversion to a short URL. It’s in beta for now so there may be the occasional bug or wonky bit here and there, but overall it’s a promising way to take your RSS experience to the Mac desktop if you already use Google Reader for your news-gathering.
5. NetNewsWire
If you don’t already use Google Reader and are looking for a good desktop RSS and Atom client for the Mac, check out NetNewsWire. Featuring a number of OS X integrations, attention filtering, delicious.com integration, blog posting integration, and more, NNW sports a familiar Mac-style three-paned interface.
6. Flock
Flock is a social web browser we recently profiled in our alternative browsers that are not IE6 feature. It features tight integration with a plethora of social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress and more.
If you basically live on the internet, which we completely empathize with, Flock might be a great web browser to add to your arsenal. Remember there’s no reason (that we can think of) not to use multiple browsers at once, especially if you run a lot of cloud apps and so on.
7. Adium
If you use more than one instant messaging service regularly, you’re going to want a chat client that can support multiple protocols and accounts seamlessly. Not only does Adium deliver that, but its default sound when your contacts log in or out or send you a message is a quacking duck. What’s not to like?
The free and open source Adium supports a boatload of chat services including AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Facebook Chat and more. With a customizable look and feel and a number of user-created themes and icons to choose from, Adium is my IM client of choice on the Mac.
8. Boxee
Television over the internet is all the rage these days, and if you’re a Mac user into video content, one app you’ll definitely want to check out is Boxee. Boxee is basically a socially-enabled media center for your Mac, allowing you to browse both your personal media collection as well as your favorite online video services in one convenient and easy to use interface. It’s designed to give you a great experience for internet content on your television screen, and works with the Apple Remote control that ships with a number of Mac models (and is available for purchase separately).
It’s also a highly socially-aware app, giving you the ability to broadcast what you’re watching to your Twitter, FriendFeed, or Tumblr accounts. You can set fine-grained controls about what to broadcast, including recommendations, watched items, music you’ve listened to, and items you rate.
Besides pulling in content from various video services like YouTube, Comedy Central, Revision3, CNN, MTV and more, Boxee also connects to social music services like last.fm and Pandora (as well as to your local music collection).
9. Hulu Desktop
Unfortunately, one thing Boxee currently lacks is a great integration with the uber-popular TV and movie streaming site Hulu, thanks to an on-again off-again contentious relationship between the two. Hulu continues to do everything in its power to block Boxee users from accessing Hulu.
However, for users there is hope in the form of the Hulu Desktop app. If you’re a television and/or movie buff with a penchant for streaming content, the desktop app offers a nice fullscreen viewing experience as well as support for operation via the standard Apple Remote.
Once tied to your regular Hulu account, you have access to your queue and subscriptions as well as the ability to rate items and get recommendations.
10. Skype
We’d be remiss for not mentioning this staple voice calling app. Skype is one of the leading voice over IP (VoIP) services on the web, and you can use it to make free voice calls between any two computers running the software.
For an astonishingly small amount of money you can do a lot of other cool things with Skype too, like send text messages from your computer, get low-cost international calling to landlines around the world, forward calls to your cellphone, get a “Skype In” number your friends can use to make a local call to you from regular phones, get voicemail services and more.
But since this list is about free apps, let’s not neglect the fact that you can place Skype-to-Skype video calls at no charge, along with group conference calls and group instant messaging as well.
As usual, this is just the tip of the iceberg. What other free social Mac apps are your favorites? Let us know in the comments!
More Resources from Mashable
– 10 of the Best Mac Apps for Bloggers
– 10 of the Best Adobe AIR Applications
– Web Development Toolbox: 120+ New Tools for Web Development
– GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done
Reviews: Adium, Boxee, Dropbox, Flickr, Flock, FriendFeed, Google Reader, Gtalk, Hulu, MSN Messenger, Mashable, Pandora, Skitch , Skype, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitscoop, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, facebook, linux
Tags: adium, boxee, Dropbox, facebook, flock, google reader, hulu, im, rss, skitch, Skype, twitter, voip
10 Fabulous Free Social Apps for Mac
If you’re a Mac user and a social media addict, what’s better than social apps for the Mac? Free social apps for the Mac, of course!
In this post we’ll take a look at 10 gratis programs for connecting to your social world via OS X. From file sharing to instant messaging, from Twitter to social television, there is very likely something on this list for you.
Do you know of any great free social Mac applications that are not listed? Let us know about them in the comments.
1. Dropbox
Looking for a dead easy way to share even large files with people quickly? Check out Dropbox, a great utility app for the Mac (it actually runs on Windows and Linux as well) that essentially gives you 2 free GB of unrestricted cloud file storage.
A bit of a Swiss army-knife type of app, Dropbox does a lot of other things besides file-sharing. It can serve as a great automatic backup utility for important files as well as one of the easiest ways to synchronize a set of files between two computers, even across platforms. You also get a web-based interface for accessing your files, which is useful if you’re using a machine without Dropbox installed.
Further, you can increase the amount of your free space by 250 MB for every new user you refer to the service. Anyone who signs up via a referral link also gets an extra 250 MB.
2. Skitch
We really can’t rave enough about Skitch (we recently profiled it in our fun image generators list). Part screen capture tool, part easy doodling app, Skitch is also a dead simple way to quickly share screencaps, images and illustrations with others.
Included in the cost of this free app is server space for file storage, so in one click you can send an image to the web. There are privacy controls for your images as well, so you can make specific things public, or keep them private from anyone who doesn’t know the URL. You can even get an embed code or forum URL if desired.
Skitch also keeps a history trail of the images you send to the web for later retrieval and you can set it up to upload your pics to your own FTP server instead of the Skitch servers.
3. TweetDeck
Everybody has their favorite Twitter client, and the one I keep coming back to always seems to be TweetDeck. It’s certainly worth doing the TweetDeck vs. Seesmic Desktop head to head comparison for yourself (as well as checking out some of the other Twitter clients out there), but the interface and functionality of the former has won me over.
It’s got all the standard features you’d expect like inline URL shortening and the ability to send and receive tweets, plus goodies like multiple columns, groups, multiple account management, Twitscoop trends, short URL previews, and even a way to sync multiple instances of TweetDeck between different machines and your iPhone.
Disclosure: TweetDeck partnered with Mashable to create MashDeck, a branded version of the software.
4. Gruml
Gruml is a desktop application that synchronizes with Google Reader for feed reading and brings many of the social features of gReader along with it. There are some who think RSS’s usefulness has been usurped by things like Facebook and Twitter, but to many it’s still the bread and butter method of staying up to date on what’s going on in their field.
Gruml brings the Google Reader RSS experience to your desktop and includes its social features like starring, liking, and sharing posts with notes and/or tags. You can also see headlines from stories that your friends have shared with you.
Gruml also comes with built-in Twitter integration, letting you tweet articles directly from the app itself after conversion to a short URL. It’s in beta for now so there may be the occasional bug or wonky bit here and there, but overall it’s a promising way to take your RSS experience to the Mac desktop if you already use Google Reader for your news-gathering.
5. NetNewsWire
If you don’t already use Google Reader and are looking for a good desktop RSS and Atom client for the Mac, check out NetNewsWire. Featuring a number of OS X integrations, attention filtering, delicious.com integration, blog posting integration, and more, NNW sports a familiar Mac-style three-paned interface.
6. Flock
Flock is a social web browser we recently profiled in our alternative browsers that are not IE6 feature. It features tight integration with a plethora of social sites including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, WordPress and more.
If you basically live on the internet, which we completely empathize with, Flock might be a great web browser to add to your arsenal. Remember there’s no reason (that we can think of) not to use multiple browsers at once, especially if you run a lot of cloud apps and so on.
7. Adium
If you use more than one instant messaging service regularly, you’re going to want a chat client that can support multiple protocols and accounts seamlessly. Not only does Adium deliver that, but its default sound when your contacts log in or out or send you a message is a quacking duck. What’s not to like?
The free and open source Adium supports a boatload of chat services including AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, Facebook Chat and more. With a customizable look and feel and a number of user-created themes and icons to choose from, Adium is my IM client of choice on the Mac.
8. Boxee
Television over the internet is all the rage these days, and if you’re a Mac user into video content, one app you’ll definitely want to check out is Boxee. Boxee is basically a socially-enabled media center for your Mac, allowing you to browse both your personal media collection as well as your favorite online video services in one convenient and easy to use interface. It’s designed to give you a great experience for internet content on your television screen, and works with the Apple Remote control that ships with a number of Mac models (and is available for purchase separately).
It’s also a highly socially-aware app, giving you the ability to broadcast what you’re watching to your Twitter, FriendFeed, or Tumblr accounts. You can set fine-grained controls about what to broadcast, including recommendations, watched items, music you’ve listened to, and items you rate.
Besides pulling in content from various video services like YouTube, Comedy Central, Revision3, CNN, MTV and more, Boxee also connects to social music services like last.fm and Pandora (as well as to your local music collection).
9. Hulu Desktop
Unfortunately, one thing Boxee currently lacks is a great integration with the uber-popular TV and movie streaming site Hulu, thanks to an on-again off-again contentious relationship between the two. Hulu continues to do everything in its power to block Boxee users from accessing Hulu.
However, for users there is hope in the form of the Hulu Desktop app. If you’re a television and/or movie buff with a penchant for streaming content, the desktop app offers a nice fullscreen viewing experience as well as support for operation via the standard Apple Remote.
Once tied to your regular Hulu account, you have access to your queue and subscriptions as well as the ability to rate items and get recommendations.
10. Skype
We’d be remiss for not mentioning this staple voice calling app. Skype is one of the leading voice over IP (VoIP) services on the web, and you can use it to make free voice calls between any two computers running the software.
For an astonishingly small amount of money you can do a lot of other cool things with Skype too, like send text messages from your computer, get low-cost international calling to landlines around the world, forward calls to your cellphone, get a “Skype In” number your friends can use to make a local call to you from regular phones, get voicemail services and more.
But since this list is about free apps, let’s not neglect the fact that you can place Skype-to-Skype video calls at no charge, along with group conference calls and group instant messaging as well.
As usual, this is just the tip of the iceberg. What other free social Mac apps are your favorites? Let us know in the comments!
More Resources from Mashable
– 10 of the Best Mac Apps for Bloggers
– 10 of the Best Adobe AIR Applications
– Web Development Toolbox: 120+ New Tools for Web Development
– GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things Done
Reviews: Adium, Boxee, Dropbox, Flickr, Flock, FriendFeed, Google Reader, Gtalk, Hulu, MSN Messenger, Mashable, Pandora, Skitch , Skype, Tumblr, TweetDeck, Twitscoop, Twitter, WordPress, YouTube, facebook, linux
Tags: adium, boxee, Dropbox, facebook, flock, google reader, hulu, im, rss, skitch, Skype, twitter, voip
YouTube Now Has Over 120 Million U.S. Viewers
The Power Of Social Media Is Not Kids Play Anymore!!
YouTube’s been on a high-speed growth upswing. Last month, YouTube became the 4th most visited site on the web after it beat out Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN, with 85.1 million U.S. visitors.
That number may not truly reflect the viewership of the web’s most popular video website, though. According to some astounding numbers from comScore, online video is surging as 8.9 billion videos were viewed by 120.3 million U.S. citizens in July. That’s over 1/3 of the entire U.S. population. Just as astounding is that over 21 billion videos were viewed on the Internet according to the new numbers.
YouTube Domination
comScore’s video matrix broke down the total number of unique viewers and the total number of videos viewed in the U.S. during July across the top 10-12 websites. Here are the unique viewers for online video in July:
Google sites were the clear winner in online video, with 120.8 million unique viewers. According to comScore, 120.3 million of those viewers were for YouTube.com What may be more shocking is the average number of video per viewer: 134.9. That’s nearly 5 YouTube videos per day. A lot of this can be attributed to embeds, which may not be reflected as unique traffic on YouTube.com
Facebook, which is not thought of as a video powerhouse, makes this list as well with 20.5 million video viewers. That’s a very small fraction of its 250+ million registered users. If Facebook can really begin to leverage its userbase, it could shoot up the rankings.
Now here are the comScore numbers for total video views:
Again, no surprise that Google dominates with a 41.9% video share. Viacom-owned videos (i.e. Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon) were a surprising second in terms of video streams. According to all of these numbers, Hulu’s still a smaller player in the online video space. Its growth has halted as there are few new TV shows during the summer season to watch.
The numbers are actually significantly different than Nielsen’s numbers for July, just showing how tough it is to track these metrics. However, online video is clearly surging and that trend will continue with YouTube as its reigning king.
Reviews: Facebook, Google, Hulu, YouTube
Tags: ComScore, ONLINE VIDEO, video, youtube
Apple to Spring Snow Leopard on August 28
Apple said its Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 upgrade would go on sale Friday, August 28, at its retail stores and authorized resellers, a tad earlier than expected and two months before Windows 7 is supposed to be generally available. Apple’s online store started accepting pre-orders Monday. The operating system, thin on new features and more focused on fine-tuning, has built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, which means Mac could theoretically replace PCs with Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal being used for e-mail, calendars and contacts.
Report: Ricky Rubio to sign six-year deal with Barcelona
It’s the news we’ve been waiting for ever since that floppy-haired kid to the right put on a black Timberwolves’ hat: Ricky Rubio(notes), Minnesota's fifth pick in this year's NBA Draft, has allegedly agreed to terms on a contract with — oh, you have got to be kidding me! — Regal Barcelona? What?
Real GM translates Marca.com’s report:
The Spanish team will pay a buyout of 3.7 million Euros, approximately $5.3 million, to Rubio’s previous team, Joventut.
Rubio will sign a six-year agreement that contains an affordable buyout in 2011.
If the report is true, that $5.3 million buyout will become the most expensive European basketball transfer in history. And while there’s no word on just how much Barcelona will pay Rubio, Tom Ziller at FanHouse predicts it will be more than the rookie scale contract Rubes would have earned with Minny — $5.6 million over two years. Sounds right.
To get a better idea of what Timberwolves fans think about the news, we e-mailed Wyn over at Canis Hoopus. His immediate reaction was unsuitable for publication. And then he sent this:
Fear not Wolves fans; you were prepared for this. Or at least you should’ve been.
While I’ve been telling people I thought Rubio’s odds of ending up in Minnesota this year were above 50 percent, I never would have put them much higher. Sure, it’s disappointing that Ricky won’t be donning a Wolves uniform for two years. But there is an upside:
1) No point guard controversy (for now). Jonny Flynn(notes) will be handed the on-court reins as a rookie. There will be plenty of bumps in the road, but the kid has a fiery game and has shown both a desire and ability to lead. Let’s see what he can do.
2) Now that the biggest roster question has been answered, the Wolves can turn their attention to the rest of it. That means they’ll likely ‘do something with’ Chucky Atkins(notes) and Mark Blount(notes) (read: waive goodbye). They’d have space to bring on some minimum salary players to either develop or provide experience (almost makes you wish we’d re-signed Kevin Ollie(notes). Almost.) Plus, they still have to make decisions on team options for Corey Brewer(notes) and Oleksiy Pecherov(notes).
3) Kurt Rambis now has a much clearer picture of what pieces he’s dealing with and what his rotations will look like. There’s been a lot of roster turnover on this team in the last few years, so the sooner a system is in place, the sooner players can develop chemistry under a new head coach.
Having Rubio in Minny this year would’ve been great, especially since some big questions can’t be answered for two years. But there should be no head hanging over today’s news. Rubio came to us as a gift-wrapped surprise and no doubt David Kahn and Co. have contingency plans accordingly. Plenty can happen to a boy/man in two years (injury, slow development, turns out he stinks), but there’s no reason to panic.
Woj update: "There is no deal done with Regal Barcelona for Ricky Rubio, a source with [direct] knowledge tells Y! Sports." Hmm. As a future Hall of Fame point guard would tweet, stay tuned, I guess.
Update No. 2: Wolves GM David Kahn echoes Woj’s sources: "Based on the information I have attained today, no team in any league has reached a deal with DKV Joventut concerning Ricky's buyout, which must be accomplished before Ricky is released from his contract with DKV Joventut."
Phenomenal Swag: UNDRCRWN’s ‘Look Good’ tee
Trey Kerby of The Blowtorch searches high and low across the Internet for NBA-related goods you never knew you needed. You know, phenomenal swag. Email Ball Don’t Lie any relevant products you find here.
The men’s league I play in is fairly competitive. There’s a few former D1 guys slumming, and all the teams except the Lumbar Jacks are at least decent. Pierre Pierce played in it for a couple of seasons before he had to go back to jail. It’s pretty legit.
This all goes to say that when my bro "Fish" did the Sidney Deane leave-the-ball-fake (1:27), it was pretty cool. Befitting a bunch of twenty-somethings, we went bananas. Now, I kinda feel like I should get him UNDRCRWN’s newest t-shirt.
As you can probably guess by now, this shirt is inspired by the line, "Brothers would rather look good and lose than look bad and win," uttered by noted basketball talent Woody Harrelson. It's a nice twist on that line, and through careful examination, I've determined that you don't actually have to be a "brother" to wear this shirt. You just have to like looking good.
And besides Drew Gooden, who doesn’t like looking good?
Ball Don’t Lie’s Swag Rating: Three Muggsy Bogues …
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Mysterious Joint Disease in China Linked to Mold in Food and Housing by Luke…
Mysterious Joint Disease in China Linked to Mold in Food and Housing by Luke Curtis, MD For the past several centuries, a mysterious ailment has affected over a million people in central China and Tibet. The ailment is called Kashin-Beck disease and causes damage to cartilage, severe joint pain and dwarfism in growing children. Kashin-Beck disease patients also suffer from chronic fatigue, muscle weakness and mental depression. The exact cause of Kashin-Beck disease is unknown, although several environmental and nutritional theories have been proposed. The food and water in Kashin-Beck affected regions are very low in the essential minerals selenium and iodine. Most Kashin- Beck patients have low blood levels of selenium and iodine and many have goiter (enlarged thyroid glands) related to low iodine. Human and animal studies have reported that selenium and iodine supplementation can improve function of joints and the thyroid gland when given to selenium and iodine deficient patients. Mold may also be a major factor in Kashin-Beck disease. High indoor and outdoor air levels of mold spores from mold genera such as Fusarium, Aspergillus, Penicillium and Stachybotrys are found in Kashin-Beck affected areas. Many people in Kashin-Beck endemic areas live in damp, moldy underground homes. Studies by Dr. Allan Lieberman of South Carolina have reported that arthritis and joint problems are very common in those who live in moldy homes. Furthermore, grains, bread and beer consumed in the regions often contain high levels of mycotoxins from Fusarium, Trichothecium and Alternaria. Many studies have reported that mycotoxins from Fusarium cause severe joint problems in lab and farm animals and can severely damage human chrondrocyte cells. Chrondrocyte cells are involved with building and maintaining human cartilage. Other studies have reported that selenium or iodine deficiency makes humans and animals more susceptible to the effects of mycotoxins. Some scientists believe that organic material such as humic and fulvic acids in the drinking water may contribute to Kashin-Beck disease by damaging cartilage., Other research suggests that virsues of genetic factors may play a role in Kashin-Beck disease. The incidence of Kashin-Beck disease has been declining over the past few decades as hundreds of thousands of Chinese have being moved out of endemic areas. A good article on Kashin-Beck Disease is published in the June 12, 2009 Science Magazine.
Ben Stiller Demos Twitter For Mickey Rooney [VIDEO]
Earlier this month, Ben Stiller made his social media debut with a hilarious video post to Facebook and Twitter. Now, he’s back with a new video, an attempt to explain Twitter to 88-year-old comedic actor Mickey Rooney.
The results, not surprisingly, are amusing, with Rooney telling Stiller that tweets “aren’t wholesome” and Stiller advising that “only children that are supervised” should use Twitter. Check it out below:
Since our last post, Stiller has become a fairly active user of both Facebook, where he already has more than 1.1 million fans, and Twitter, where he has around 100,000 followers so far. Stiller’s production company, Red Hour Productions, also has a YouTube channel where you can keep up with his latest videos.
[via mediaite]
Tags: ben stiller, mickey rooney, twitter
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