user: When British royalty met US pop royalty

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have met with their American royal equivalent, pop stars Beyonce and Jay-Z, at a New York basketball game.

The visiting royals enjoying an NBA match in Brooklyn, watching Le Bron or "King James" in action, eating popcorn like a regular date night

Earlier in the day, the Royals went their separate ways - it's believed so Kate didn't overshadow the Prince in Washington.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge meet with Beyonce and Jay-Z at a basketball game in New York. (9NEWS)

Prince William discusses the birth of his son, George, with US President Barack Obama. (9NEWS)

Prince William had some important meetings, firstly in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama, where he revealed just how excited he was when Prince George was born.

It was a far more serious meeting at the World Bank, where the Prince spoke about a matter close to this heart - wildlife poaching.

The Duchess travelled to Harlem and won over little hearts - meeting underprivileged children at a learning centre.

Some thought they were getting a visit from the Princess from "Frozen".

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talks to children in Harlem. (9NEWS)

Her visit to Harlem was reminiscent of Princess Diana's visit two decades ago. (9NEWS)

Kate left a lasting impression, following in the famous footsteps of Princess Diana, who famously visited Harlem Hospital two blocks away two decades ago.

This childhood centre Kate is visiting here in Harlem is only two blocks from the Harlem Hospital Princess Di famously visited -- two decades ago.

The pregnant Duchess was meant to then rest, but instead decided to accompany her husband to meet Hilary and Chelsea Clinton.

Even by New York's busy standard it was an action packed day, but one many here will remember forever.

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summary: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have met with their American royal equivalent, pop stars Beyonce and Jay-Z, at a New York basketball game.

Twitter’s Massive 2008: 752 Percent Growth

The Twitter tipping point. Everyone using it effectively as a networking & marketing tool is saying “well, yeah!”.

And to think that is just American users and excludes many who only use mobile. Go Twitter.

Now that’s some staggering growth, as far as Twitter is concerned. Viral email address importers and innovative communication advances are, in large part, responsible.

I saw these number as well and one problem I have is that how are the numbers being counted?

I mean, due to the fast that the open API means Twitter has quite an extensive eco-system that’s off Twitter eco-system the actual users are probably even higher than this.

Boy am I glad a built a business model around it Here’s to a happy and prosperous 2009~

Yesch … Twitter is an easy drop-in and destined for HUGE success!

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Excellent content here and a nice writing style too - keep up the great work!

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Wow that is amazing growth. wish my sites experience the same, eg http://socialrumble.com

I think Facebook will outperform Myspace and be married on twitter. Big thanks to the facebook twitter app

thats indeed a massive grouth

Im one of the late comers last year. People from Twitterville has helped me a lot in my marketing profession. Twitter will continue to rock this year!

… and there’s more … Dr Blockbuster predicts that Twitter will go U N I V E R S A L in 2009 … so look to ye servers afore Birnam Woods come to Dunsinane

There are plenty of developments they could make, but keeping it simple will be their strength!

Twitter is a great tool for social updates and news updates.It is useful tool in social media. This growth is really worthwhile.

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Wow–that is stunning growth. It seems like every person doing anything online has a twitter account. It’s pretty much expected at this point.

I think this massive traffic came from our election year, people are exited what going on and around the world too , and twitter feed most of the information faster than Youtube.

It may go down just as fast as it went up. It’s really not that useful of a tool. The growth is probably due to dot commies that just want the link because it has become such a good link. Also it so fast and silly to set up. But really, how useful is it as far as staying power?

[...] Twitter’s Massive 2008: 752 Percent Growth - Adam Ostrow on Twitter’s unstoppable momentum. [...]

wow… this is amazing… wonder what to do with this huge traffic until they come up with some revenue model….

Amazing growth. Most of it had to do with the U.S elections and Barack Obama.

Wow, pretty amazing stuff dude.

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summary: There’s little doubt that Twitter was one of the most talked about startups over the past year. But just how much did it grow in 2008? The final numbers are

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