The number of tweets has officially surpassed the number of people in this world.

Twitter’s security and stability woes continue. As of now Twitter.com is down and appears to have been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.

The most influential twitter user isn’t Barak Obama or Oprah Winfrey. Instead it’s a blogger – Pete Cashmore who has 1.8 million followers and is one of the most frequently retweeted personalities on Twitter.

Orkut the social networking site popular in Brazil and India has rolled out a new set of features for photo sharing on the site. The new features include Inline photo browsing, photo slideshows and Face detection for tagging friends.

According to a ruling by Florida’s Judicial Ethics committee, a lawyer who appears in front of a judge cannot add him as a ‘friend’ on a social networking website.

New privacy settings introduced by Facebook are controversial at best. Your friend list and fan pages are now public information and can be viewed by everyone.

Tumblr just announced today that they are not introducing password protected blogs. This new feature will allow users to password protect their blogs, users can only access your posts once they have entered a valid password.

Just after a major design update last month, Facebook is planning to launch a new design shortly. The new Facebook design changes the news feed, notifcations, photo albums and uploader. Checkout the screenshots of the new Facebook design.

DailyRT is a great resource to see the most popular tweets on the web. If you want to see which tweets are being retweeted the most, it is the place to go.

FlickToTwitt is a great application to automatically tweet whenever you upload photos to Flickr.

A new wave of direct messaging spam has began hitting Twitter recently. You might see some direct messages from your friends asking you to take a IQ test.

TwitPaint is a Twitter application that lets you paint and share graffiti art on Twitter.

Twitpaper is a great resource to download free Twitter themes and backgrounds.

Sendible is a web application that lets you schedule Facebook messages and status updates for Later.

HootSuite, a popular Twitter client has now added support for Facebook and LinkedIn.