Treasury: Millions more foreclosures coming – Real estate- msnbc.com

updated 3:11 p.m. ET, Wed., Sept . 9, 2009

WASHINGTON – Only 12 percent of U.S. homeowners eligible for loan modifications under the Obama administration’s housing rescue plan have had their mortgages reworked, and millions more foreclosures are coming, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

A Treasury report showed 360,165 people had their monthly payments reduced through August, up from 235,247 through July, but a senior Treasury official conceded much more must be done to soften the impact of a severe and prolonged housing crisis.

via msnbc.msn.com

This, combined with the end of the first-time home buyers refund and the fact that commercial default rates are rising (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/19987/)- might be a while before we are out of the slump

End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers

End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers

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by Michael Arrington on April 29, 2008

Speculation about Twitter’s new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter’s actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof.

Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base. Compete shows about 900,000 U.S. monthly website visitors. Comscore puts the worldwide number at 1.3 million unique monthly visitors in March.

None of that data is particularly useful, since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients like Alert Thingy, MySocial24×7 and Twhirl. Many of Twitter’s most active users rarely visit the website.

The key measure of Twitter usage is total users, total active users and total messages sent. And according to a source close to the company, these are the current Twitter usage stats:

March 2008
Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

via techcrunch.com

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