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Popular on Twitter: Wikipedia’s usage is on the rise, the NYT still gets half its traffic from its homepage, a Silicon slapfight

By Hourly Press Jan. 13, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

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POSTED Jan. 13, 2011, 4:30 p.m.

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