Having spent the past hour or so diving into our referrer logs for tweetdeck.com (#nowitsaparty) I was surprised to see the diversity of our top referring twitter acounts for the past 7 days. So in a kind of blog-related pseudo FollowFriday I just wanted to say thank-you, in no particular order, to the following twitterers for all the viral traffic they send our way and pay back a little of the love...

Diego Forlan (Madrid) - Footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid and Uruguay
Bio Uruguayo, Balón de Oro del Mundial 2010, Doble Bota de Oro, Embajador de Unicef y jugador del Atlético

Ivete Sangalo (Brazil) - Latin Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
Bio Twitter Oficial da cantora brasileira Ivete Sangalo. Twitter atualizado pela própria Ivete e pela equipe do seu site.

Scuderia Ferrari (Maranello) - Racing team division of Ferrari
Bio Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro - The Official Page

Simon Pegg (London) - English actor, comedian, writer, producer and director
Bio Actor/writer/dog owner/winner of 50m flat race 1977-1981

Yu Darvish (Japan) - Starting pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
Bio 野球の事や、思ったことを書いていきたいと思います。よろしくお願いします。

Ana Hickman (Sãu Paulo) - Brazilian model and TV presenter
Bio Apresentadora de TV

Fledgling Wine (San Francisco) - http://www.fledglingwine.com
Bio A Twitter wine project that promotes literacy around the world.

Pepe Aguilar (Mexico) - Singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi & pop music
Bio Bienvenidos a la página oficial de Pepe Aguilar en Twitter!.

Lily Allen (London) - Recording artist, talk show host, and actress
Bio I can babble a little

Tyra Banks (US) - Model, media personality, actress and businesswoman
Bio Business woman by day, SMIZE-r by night. Favs: ANYTHING in BBQ sauce & perfecting H2T poses in the mirror.

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Sunday 4th July 2010 was TweetDeck's 2nd Birthday which means this is a great opportunity to highlight what we've achieved over the over the past 12 months and what's in store for the next.

Over the past 12 months we have:

• attracted over $3.5m in funding from some of the most respected investors in the world 
• grown the company from 1 to 15 superb people with offices in both London and New York...and a small outbuilding in western France
• won the Shorty Award for Best Application and .Net Award for Best API use
• worked with Warner Bros, EMI, Black Eyed Peas, Huffington Post, Zeit Online and Channel 4 to release special edition TweetDecks 
• moved from the desktop to iPhone, iPad and soon Android and mobile web
• been involved in a number of fascinating and strategic discussions with household-name companies which have been...both fascinating and strategic
• become a de-facto tool for various journalists in establishments such as Sky News and the Guardian

Some numbers:

• desktop TweetDeck has been downloaded over 15 million times
• iPhone TweetDeck has been downloaded over 2.5 million times
• our servers are syncing over 7 million twitter search columns, adding 25,000 per day
• 30,000 images are uploaded each day from TweetDecks
• approximately 4 million tweets, status updates and buzz's are sent out every day via TweetDeck
• far and away the most popular desktop client for twitter, and if measuring in outbound tweets we are 5 times bigger than our closest competitor
• general usage of TweetDeck indicates our userbase is super-engaged, extremely active and, in many cases, highly influential

So what's next?

That's a fairly big question.

We believe the future holds even more fast-moving streams of socially relevant information. Our mission is to help our users manage and harness these information flows. To that end, we are moving towards being truly multi-stream, re-building our clients from the ground-up with multi-stream functionality ingrained rather than simply bolting on new disconnected networks.

Our Android TweetDeck is a great example of our belief that "true multi-stream", the intersection of social networks, can be infinitely greater than the sum of its parts - or to put it another way TweetDeck should be more about what your friends are saying rather than the networks they are using to say it.

The other major trend is the maturation of the real-time ecosystem into a business. Consistent monetization is necessary for companies in the space, from big to small, and we are committed to working with our integrated networks to make sure that the user experience remains paramount as revenue streams are introduced.  

One thing is certain - our third year is going to be incredibly interesting.

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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Adobe AIR 2 runtime. Starting today, you can download and install the new version at [get.adobe.com/air/](http://get.adobe.com/air/). Developers can now deploy applications built for AIR 2 on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. (Note that the AIR 2 SDK is available in CS5 and will be available as a free standalone download on Tuesday, June 15^th.)

# AIR APPS

The Adobe AIR runtime is already installed on nearly 300 million desktop computers. We have carefully crafted a seamless installation and upgrade experience that makes it very easy for developers to distribute apps on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. With a few clicks, the Adobe AIR “badge” embedded on the app download page takes care of installing or updating to the right version of AIR if needed. In addition, once a week AIR apps check to see if an AIR update is available, and if so, users are presented with the option to update to the most up‐to‐date version, helping to ensure that end users get the benefits of improved security and performance.

There are some amazing apps built with AIR that will work even better with AIR 2. Here are a few we expect will work better because of reduced memory usage and improved performance:

* [Graphic.ly](http://www.graphic.ly): a splendid comics book reader that connects people who love sharing their passion about graphic novels
* [The complete National Geographic](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/completeng/): 120 years of National Geographic magazine at your fingertips in stunning digital clarity
* [Moviefone](http://www.moviefone.com/syndication/top‐hd‐trailers‐app): the latest HD movie trailers in outstanding quality
* [The Simpsons unleashed](http://www.thesimpsons.com/unleashed/): experience The Simpsons like never before as the characters come alive and interact with you on your desktop.
* [Adobe Story](http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/cslive/): a collaborative story writing tool, part of the new CS Live online services.

# WHAT’S NEW IN ADOBE AIR 2

Adobe AIR 2 is our most significant update to AIR since its original release two years ago.

Here is just one example of developer reaction to this release:

>Adobe AIR 2 is the most robust & versatile yet. With minimum development effort, I was able to convert my AIR for Android app into a desktop app that runs on Windows, Mac OS X & even Linux. Being able reuse 90% of my code to build an application that runs on desktops, as well as mobiles is truly an amazing feature. AIR 2 has evolved into a ubiquitous platform!
> — Lee Graham, Co‐Founder of [TRImagination](http://www.trimagination.com/)

We have made huge improvements in the overall performance of the runtime. Without changing your AIR apps, they will now use less CPU and up to 30% less memory.

We are also introducing dozens of new features and hundreds of new APIs for developers to take advantage of. For example, our much improved networking APIs will make it possible to build new apps, from multi‐player games to enterprise collaboration apps. AIR is now even more tightly integrated with the operating system, including better interaction with the file system, detecting mounting and un‐mounting of volumes, improved printing APIs, support for native installers and, of course, one of our most request features, support for integrating native code with your application using the `NativeProcess` API.

We’re very excited to see the new class of apps made possible by our new multi‐touch and gesture APIs. Those APIs are also available on the beta mobile version of Flash Player and on the AIR for Android pre‐release, and more and more laptops and desktops are multi‐touch capable. We believe this is a great opportunity to build apps with innovative user interactions.

We have also made improvements to HTML support in AIR 2, which you can take advantage of whether you are building an application using only HTML/CSS and JavaScript, or incorporating the `HTMLLoader` view as part of a Flash/ActionScript‐based application. We have added support for some CSS3 and HTML5 features as well, including CSS transforms, transitions and animations and the “ tag. Additionally, the new JavaScript engine in AIR 2 has been clocked up to twice as fast as before.

A broad range of AIR 2 applications are expected to be available shortly after the release of the AIR 2 runtime, ranging from publicly available ...

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