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A few days ago the first study on the use of Twitter users in Latin America was published. This study was conducted over a three week period using online questionnaires. The study was based on a sample of 1,756 cases.

This recent study of the digital marketing company ComScore revealed that the use of Twitter has grown extensively worldwide and Latin America stands out as the fastest growing region in the world.

Of the 93 million Twitter users in the world, 15 million are from Latin America.

Let’s explore this data a little more in depth.

Here we have extracted some interesting facts about the behavior of iPhone users in the United States and Latin America. The Latin market promises to break records this year in sales. The overall market in 2010 in Latin America is making a recovery in technology sales.

This is not only because of the change in the amount of sales, but also the characteristics of the products purchased. According to several studies, in 2010, sales of smartphones could reach a historic level in Latin America with approximately 11 million units -4 million more than in 2009. Recent studies of the TNS Global Market Research foresee a drop in sales of desktop computers and a significant increase in sales of laptop computers; for example, sales of notebooks and netbooks have risen 10% since 2009.

On July 26, 2010 in the United States, the practice known as jailbreak was finally legalized -within its territory. The process of jailbreaking allows your iPhone to have applications that are not in the Apple Store.

The legalization of the practice of jailbreak was great news for mobile application developers. Be careful what you read! There is much confusion between the terms unlock and jailbreak. Until that day in July, the only excuse that Apple had to not allow this practice was its illegal status.

Now, Apple can no longer base its rejection of the jailbreak on the DMCA. For this reason, Apple’s first reaction was to remind users that the company will not recognize the warranty of devices that have been manipulated in some way. That is, according to Apple, jailbreaking your iPhone is not recommended because of issues related to security and the proper functioning of the device, it is not due to illegality.

Twitday is a fun web app that dynamically displays tweets and location of a group of people. Twitday can be used at events like conferences, concerts or meetups. You can specify usernames, hashtags and location. People can read relevant tweets, follow new people and retweet directly from Twitday. This is an app completely devoted to a particular event.