1. Facebook serves 3 billion LIKE buttons a day, serves one-sixth of all U.S. ads, has more traffic than Google or the next 99 sites combined, has 100 million mobile users and five times as many web users, and when it launches a Facebook search engine, it will be the second biggest search engine in the world right out of the gate.
2. Twitter's search engine is bigger than Bing and Yahoo combined. Not only is Twitter doing 800 million searches a day, but apparently they're the fastest growing search engine in the U.S.
3. Bing actually seems to have a better relationship with Facebook and Twitter, and in addition, Bing has gone out of its way to partner with Amazon as well as Apple and its soon-to-be-100-million iPhone OS devices.

TweetDeck fills that gap and more.

Simply add a new column using one of your Twitter lists. You can also create a new Twitter List from scratch. Hover over the title to edit this list.

Click ‘edit list’ to add or remove members.  You can even create a new list from an existing list (yours or another user’s list you are following).

Filter your Friends list to easily find people and then drag n’ drop to add to the list!

That’s it! It’s a much improved Twitter Lists experience.

Bravo, TweetDeck.

Austin: I need a good rec for a good masseuse. Pros only; no students or pinched nerves. I’ve got a terrible knot under my shoulder blade. – 4:55 PM Mar 18th

Six reputable masseuse recommendations in 20 minutes. These are from people whom are local and whose opinion I value. This is the power of social realized and it will only grow from here as more people utilize shared services and share their thoughts, insights, and opinions.

For the record, here are the referrals:

• Todd Johnson of Energies Balanced
• Erin at Austin Deep
• Andrea at the Beauty Store in Bee Caves
  
• Judith Stathos at The Joint
• Nikky at Massage Envy on Westgate
• staff at Yoga Groove

I’ll be making an appointment, in confidence, very soon!

For example, yesterday @IsraelConsulate held a Q&A session via Twitter using the hashtag #AskIsrael. There were some very contentious questions and I think they were handled well by @IsraelConsulate.

There is also the Israel Defense Forces’ Spokesperson’s Unit YouTube channel with videos of precision-targeted air strikes on purported Hamas missile facilities and smuggling tunnels inside Gaza. So far 16 videos have been uploaded and there are more being added as they become available.

Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (or his office) is twittering via @Netanyahu (if you speak Hebrew).

Israel’s push into social media seems to mostly be due to David Saranga who Wikipedia lists as the Israeli Consul for Media and Public Affairs and credits with being the “first diplomat who implemented Web 2.0 governmental initiatives, including the first official blog of a country, a MySpace page, YouTube channel, Facebook page and a political blog.” It’s unclear if Mr. Saranga is responsible for getting the IDF YouTube page and Mr. Netanyahu’s office to embrace these alternate medias as well.

I can’t think of another time social media has been used by a State to press their case. For better or worse, it’s propaganda and lobbying on the public at large. But the difference here is the engagement in dialogue vs. the typical official statements and video releases.

I did a Google search on the #tcot Twitter hashtag to determine what it stood for (Top Conversatives on Twitter as far as I can tell). I was pleasantly surprised to see the search.twitter.com service featured in it’s #1 spot.

Do it.

Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, so I’m definitely missing some things. I especially can’t remember the many deaths that I first learned of on Twitter.

• Anna Nicole Smith’s death
• Earthquake in China
• Charlton Heston’s death
• Heath Ledger’s death
• Both crane incidents in New York
• Ted Kennedy’s seizure and subsequent brain tumor diagnosis
• Ice was confirmed to be found on Mars

Most of these items were tweeted by friends whom I follow. The exciting announcement from Mars came from their Mars Phoenix Twitter account. As I’m starting to follow more traditional sources of news, I expect to learn of other breaking news and be led to their websites for more information.

Ok, your turn…