A Twitter user in Tokyo has posted the 20 billionth tweet in the history of the micro-blogging site, four years after the service launched.

The popularity of the service has grown exponentially over the past year, with the 10 billion mark being hit just five months ago.

15 million was hit in June, riding the heels of the World Cup tournament's huge popularity.

Twitter blogged recently that the service adds 300,000 new users every day, on top of the 120 million registered users it already has.

In February, the service said it was seeing 600 tweets per second, which moved to as high as 3000 a second during the World Cup. In 2007, when the site was still in its infancy, there were about 5000 tweets per day.

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Sony has released their latest Q1 results, and for the quarter ended June 30th the company sold 2.4 million PlayStation 3 consoles.

Globally, the PS3 has now hit 38.1 million consoles sold, gaining strong momentum the longer the console is available.

In its first fiscal year of availability, 2006, Sony sold 3.5 million consoles. For the fiscal 2007, Sony sold 9.1 million units. For the fiscal 2008, the company sold 10.1 million units. In fiscal 2009, with the release of the slimmed down version of the console, Sony sold 13 million consoles.

For the fiscal 2010, Sony has said they plan to sell 15 million units.

While the Microsoft Xbox 360 had a one-year lead in the current-gen market, the PS3 is catching up, now down by just 3.6 million, according to the Examiner.

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According to figures site AndroLib, the Android Market has seen 100,000 apps submitted since its debut, although there are still not 100,000 apps available in the store.

The site says 18,000 apps have been removed or been unpublished, leaving the active app count at somewhere over 82,000.

Last month, Google confirmed 75,000 apps in the Market.

AndroLib counts apps available in the U.S and internationally, as well as those submitted in those nations.

Said the site this weekend: "When Androlib launched in June 2009, barely 5,000 applications and games had been submitted to the Android Market. This number quickly grew overtime exponentially. By the end of 2009, it would cross 20,000. Today, we are happy to announce this number surpassed 100,000."

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Motorola's heavily touted Droid 2 smartphone has been confirmed for an August 12th release date.

The date comes from an internal Verizon blog, which while unconfirmed, seems real.

Details are laid out about the smartphone in the leaked pages, as well, with the most notable being the launch-day addition of Android 2.2 Froyo. Android 2.2 includes 450 percent better performance, an improved browser, built-in Flash 10.1 support, and Apps2SD among other features.

Swype will also come pre-installed, giving users arguably the best virtual keypad typing system available.

The device has a 1GHz processor, a QWERTY keypad, 8GB onboard memory, and an 8GB microSD card.

Additionally, the phone will come pre-installed with a plethora of Verizon apps, Skype Mobile, NFL Mobile, Blockbuster, City ID and 3G Mobile Hotspot.

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While there hasn't been too many complaints, a number of PlayStation 3 owners have complained since Friday that Sony's recent 3.41 firmware update has been crashing their console, or just won't install at all.

Sony has been quick to respond, saying the problem doesn't lie with the firmware update but instead with the user's individual hard drives.

Many users upgrade their standard Sony-issued hard drives, especially if they own PS3s that started with tiny 20GB or 40GB HDDs.

If you are having trouble, Sony has suggested switching back to your original PS3 HDD to get the update, first.

Says Sony: "We apologize for any inconvenience you are experiencing with upgrading Internal Hard Disc Drive (for PlayStation3) on your PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system. The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation(R) owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41update. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) strongly supports the quality of its products and backs them with full confidence."

We ask that you update the previous HDD first to see if the update will go through. Then update from the thumb drive that is formatted in FAT 32 and has the 3.41 update downloaded."

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