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The era of mobile mobile computing was launched through the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

And since then, the explosive growth has not stopped with 2011 being the most pivotal year we have seen since the launch of the era of smartphones.

Here are some numbers to show you the growth or decline which happened in 2011.  

  • 166% — Growth in the number of Facebook Mobile users for the first half of the year = 350 Million mobile users.
  • 26 photos — Shared per second via Instagram.
  • 8 Trillion – Number of  Text Messages were sent.
  • 103 Million — Wireless Tweets were sent.
  • 1 Billion – Foursquare check-ins.

Read the rest of the doc... damn... that's a hell of a lot of tweets.... 

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