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With Tweet Volume  you can see the popularity of words used by Twitter users. I assumed Coffee or Sleep would be the most common tweets. Turns out Twitter users like to Tweet about Twitter.

Have you ever heard a story about someone who has lost their cell phone then ends up with a $26 000 bill? There has been a couple of these stories in the news lately and in both stories the cell company has forced the customer to pay up. Your phone doesn’t even need to leave your possession to be a victim anymore. Do a Google search on Sim cloning or bluetooth jacking. You’ll have to figure out the rest for yourself.
The idea! You know how if you start to make mysterious purchases with your credit card it stops working until you talk to the credit card company. Try buying 3 tanks of gas in one afternoon to test this out. Anyway…How about some software in the phone system that identifies if your calling patterns are erratic. For example Mike Smith from Vancouver is suddenly taken an interest in calling Beijing.
Say you make a long distance or roaming call outside the normal list of numbers that have appeared on your call history in the last 12 months it automatically forwards you to a automated system where you have to give a pin number or your birth date etc, therefore verifying the user. I know asking the telecoms and wireless companies to update the phone system is absurd. That would mean a change at the core of the phone system…god forbid.
You could also implement this as an app in the phone. Whenever a new number/roaming/long distance/international call is made it would ask you for a code or use a voice recognition safe word.Then the phone companies could really hold you to your $26k bill!
Somebody build this.
The network side solution would be better cause it would curve sim cloning and bluetooth jacking fraud.

Toronto leads the world in Facebook users with over 516 000 users. Second place is New York City with just over 200 000 users.
Before we start getting all uppity and proud let’s remember these points.
1. It’s Facebook
2. The amount of University’s in the GTA
3. Demographics and Geography
4. Broadband Access in the GTA is one of the highest in the world
5. It’s Toronto…..nothing better to do

To expand on number 3. Unless you are from Ottawa you are basically going to be apart of the Toronto network. Who is proud of being from Sudbury or Hamilton? That makes a possible 15 million members for the Toronto network compared to New York’s 12 million.

Canadian wireless provider Rogers is already pushing mobile Facebook use on their phones. They have also made wireless data cheaper to make it easier for all you addicted people….myself included.

Other Canadian cities in the top 20 included Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton.

City Users

Toronto 490,605
New York 203,982
Chicago 193,671
Boston 134,137
Atlanta 124,493
L.A. 100,758
Dallas 92,238
Seattle 92,077
Detroit 82,600
Miami 30,859
Vancouver 153,598
Ottawa 105,908
Calgary 86,090
Montreal 80,303
Halifax 68,094
Edmonton 57,129

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