New Heights for Twitter: 100 Million Users

Ah, to think back on all those jokes.

“Do I Twitter?” went the classic question-in-response-to-a-question, often asked with a look of befuddlement, or boredom, or busier-than-thou disgust, and always followed by the “who cares what so-and-so ate for breakfast?”

Well, a few fans of MC Hammer cared what he was up to (to date @MCHammer attracts a whopping 2, 204, 299 followers).

Others cared about people’s whereabouts and updates, too, realizing Twitter, along with other social networking sites could be about so much more than who ate their Wheaties (the breakfast cereal which, we were pleased to just discover, boasts 67,000-plus fans on Facebook).

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