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Serena Williams' Tweet Social media and tennis seem to be in a “Love-Love” relationship these days. Perhaps more than any other sport, professional tennis players have embraced Twitter and Facebook over the past couple of years — and used those platforms with surprising success. Some examples? More than 6 million people have “liked” Roger Federer’s Facebook fan page and nearly 4 million people have “liked” Maria Sharapova’s (poor A-Rod, on the other hand, only boasts 50,000 fans). On Twitter, nearly 2

Twitter continues to grow at break neck speed according to some recent numbers that were revealed in an interview with founder and ex-CEO Evan Williams. Usually the term ex-CEO has an incredibly negative vibe but as we talked about when Williams stepped aside to let Dick Costolo take the lead it was actually a move that was filled with smarts and refreshingly humble. Let’s put it this way, it doesn’t seem like the move has hurt the deal any.

You know the story. Digg changed the site in order to bring it more in line with modern social media. The old school Diggers got mad and threatened to leave. Kevin Rose said, oops, we messed up, then he left and Matt Williams took over as CEO and now he’s trying to dig out from under the mess he’s been handed.