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Will Facebook kill phone numbers?

According to the latest statistics, Facebook has up to 1.01 billion daily active users and 894 million mobile daily active users on average, in which approximately 83.5 percent are outside the US and Canada. In relation to Messenger, it recently announced that photo sharing in the feature was growing at a fast rate with over 9.5 billion photos sent each month alone.The report predicts that disappearance of the phone number will be one of 2016 trends as old communication styles are disappearing."SMS and texting came to the fore in the time of flip phones. Now, many of us can do so much more on our phones; we went from just making phone calls and sending basic text-only messages to having computers in our pockets. And just like the flip phone is disappearing, old communication styles are disappearing too," according to Facebook VP of messaging products David Marcus. Facebook Messenger, which has crossed the milestone of 800 million users each month, enables users to send more

Twitter is down on mobile and web

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Have tried in vain to access the Twitter service over the mobile app and web in vain.Seems Twitter is unavailable for users worldwide but since 9am Central European Time, the micro blogging site is definitely suffering a total outage and difficult access problems lasting until the time of posting this post. I visited the Twitter’s status board updated at 11am Central European Time and it was official the outage was global. Twitter’s developer-facing monitoring confirmed that four of the five public APIs were down, suffering a “service disruption”. At 10:47, the search API was upgraded to “performance issues”. By 10:55am, a second API was upgraded to “performance issues”, and some users were able to sporadically access the service. My efforts to use Twitter application programming interface, an effective system that applications use to speak to the Twitter service has an error messages warning the network is both “over capacity” and suffering an “internal error”.Below is the error mess

List of players in Essendon doping scandal

Player Expiry of ineligibility  Current status/club Thomas Bellchambers 13 November 2016 Essendon Alex Browne 13 November 2016 Delisted last year Jake Carlisle 13 November 2016 St Kilda Travis Colyer 13 November 2016 Essendon Stewart Crameri 13 November 2016 Western Bulldogs Alwyn Davey 15 February 2017 Delisted in 2013 Luke Davis 13 November 2016 Aberfeldie Cory Dell'Olio 14 November 2016 Delisted in 2014 Ricky Dyson 13 November 2016 Retired in 2012 Dustin Fletcher 21 November 2016 Retired last year Scott Gumbleton 13 November 2016 Retired in 2014 Kyle Hardingham 13 November 2016 Delisted in 2014 Dyson Heppell 13 November 2016 Essendon Michael Hibberd 13 November 2016 Essendon David Hille 13 November 2016 Retired in 2013 Heath Hocking 13 November 2016 Essendon Cale Hooker 13 November

Obesity is among the gravest problem of our time

According to experts, overweight and obesity are health concepts in which weight and height are used to calculate a number called the Body Mass Index. Body Mass Index is a good estimate of body fatness where 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight and that of 30 or higher is categorised as obese. Your blogger belong to 21 thanks to a well crafted eating habits .The overweight and obesity epidemics have increased significantly in the last three decades both in the developed and developing worlds.The obesity pandemic frequently coexists with undernutrition and creates a double burden in many parts of the world. A new report that I read yesterday that was published in the journal Obesity , analyses what scientists currently know about factors that influence weight loss and weight regain, and identifies how genetic information and data collection from noninvasive, portable devices may soon be incorporated into research and weight loss treatment. The unhealthy eating habits partly explain  why