Congratulations to our very own Scott Bryant for being selected to speak at this year's UX Australia conference!

Facebook's F8 developer conference

(contributed by Melissa)

Here are a few really interesting links which I found so far on the F8 conference.

Twitter's developer conference

(contributed by Manuel)

At Chirp, the official Twitter developer conference, Twitter shared some revealing stats about its site, users, and growth that had previously been kept under wraps.

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users
  • New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day
  • 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
  • Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API
  • Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day
  • Twitter's search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day
  • Of Twitter's active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet
  • Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications
  • Twitter itself has grown: in the past year alone, it has grown from 25 to 175 employees

You can also see some snapshots from the presentation.

The Quick List

No waffle, just links.