Facebook founding president Sean Parker joins Twitter, apologizes to Mark Zuckerberg

Most non-techsters will know him as Justin Timberlake in The Social Network.

Sean Parker, cofounder of Napster and Plaxo, is also the founding president of Facebook, which is probably why he's never had a Twitter account.

Until now.

Sean Parker is now gaining new Twitter followers every second (he's gained several hundred while writing this post). So far, he has just one tweet:

Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually. (Actually @scooterbraun made me do it.)

Sean has had a Facebook Page for a while with an enviable URL and 30,000 subscribers. We'll see if he continues to maintain or catches the Twitter bug. Either way I fancy he'll fetch a lot more than 30,000 followers.

Silicon Valley's Highest Paying Companies (You'll Be Surprised Who's Number 1)

Where's a good place to make money? If you're in the tech scene, Silicon Valley remains one of the premier spots. The famous Valley is home to such giants as Microsoft and AOL.

But even among the biggies, somebody has to pay the most. Using data from TechCompanyPay, here are the Valley's five highest paying companies based on average employee salary.

5. Google

Search engine master and maker of Android, this engineer-loving, young and vibrant company pays an average salary of $104,600.

Twitter: 'We Are Not a Social Network'

Michael Abbot, the vice president of engineering at Twitter, spoke at the Mobilize Conference in San Francisco today.

Michael discussed Twitter and mobile, such as how the startup platform is adapting to evolving technologies, namely smartpones and tablets. Twitter is not underestimating the mobile revolution, he said, noting that 45% of tweets now come from mobile devices.

Facebook's had an iPad app since May but fights with Apple have caused indefinite delays

Two months ago TechCrunch leaked Facebook's iPad app. It looked mostly complete, and as it has been discovered today, it has in fact been feature complete since May.

Developer Jeff Verkoeyen revealed today on his personal blog that he was lead engineer on the project for 8 months—working up to 80 hours a week—before quitting due to Facebook continually delaying the product's release.

Google+ cracks 40 million users; membership up 30% since going public

Unofficial Google+ statistian Paul Allen, who has been tracking the social network's numbers since its inception, has suggested that Google+ is now at about 43 million users, marking an impressive 30% growth spurt since the software company's social platform went public.

Google+ became public on September 20th and saw an immediate spike in user signups. Paul believes there were roughly 29 million users on September 9, a number that swelled to 38 million last Thursday morning, just two days after the public launch.

Facebook eclipses Google in usage for the first time ever

For the first time in internet history, people are spending more time on social network Facebook than search engine Google.

The data is revealed in a report released by Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney.

People spend over 41 billion minutes on Facebook every month in the U.S. alone—Google clocks in at just under 40 billion.

Facebook OS: Is the social network big enough to warrant its own mobile operating system?

ABI Research recently released a report that suggested Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's epicly popular social network, will eventually need its own mobile operating system platform.

The research firm forecasts that all social networks will combine for 1.7 billion mobile users in 5 years. Facebook alone has 350 million active mobile users now, and 800 million active web users. With Facebook leading the pack, it will become sizable enough to command its own mobile platform like Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Samsung's Bada, etc.

Facebook cracks 800 million users, half of them use it everyday

Facebook now has 800 million active users, Mark Zuckerberg says, as the company crawls toward the legendary one billion user milestone. Approximately half of these people use Facebook every day.

Of the social network's myriad users, an impressive 44% are now active mobile users. That's roughly 350 million people Facebooking on their tablets and smartphones.

The average number of friends a Facebook user has is 130.