The 10 Biggest Social Media Stories This Week

From disliking on Facebook, to the launch of the Motorola Droid, to the debut of Twitter Lists, it’s been an exciting week in the social media and tech space.

Here’s our pick of the top 10 stories this week, from the serious to the bizarre.

1. HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists – Twitter has launched Lists, a new way to organize people you follow on Twitter. Josh Catone tells us how to get the most of the new feature.

2. 10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists – More Twitter List goodness, this time with real-world examples of Twitter list usage.

3. LEAKED: Microsoft Courier Tablet User Interface Details – Microsoft is working on a slick-looking tablet. Now interface details have emerged.

4. Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You – Google this week launched a single location to find all the data the company is storing about you.

5. BREAKING: Rollout of Twitter Retweet Feature Has Begun [PICS] – Twitter is set to support retweets as a native feature. Some users already have access.

6. Now You Can Dislike Stuff on Facebook (With a Firefox Plugin) – Facebook’s “Like” feature is a handy way to show props for a status update, photo or link … but what if you want to express dislike? Facebook has no such feature natively, but a Firefox plugin lets you do much the same thing.

7. The Top Internet Memes of 2009 – What were the top Internet memes of the year? We look back at a year in Internet culture.

8. T-Mobile Down Nationwide – T-Mobile suffered a major outage this week, affecting users across the country.

9. Motorola Droid’s New “Stealth” Commercial [Video] – The Motorola Droid is here, along with a new ad that includes stealth bombers and cowboys.

10. Out of Control Forklift Driver Destroys Vodka Warehouse [VIDEO] – A video of a forklift crash went viral on YouTube this week, making for an amusing diversion.

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Reviews: Facebook, Firefox, Google, Twitter, YouTube, iStockphoto

Tags: social media

#OpenWebAwards: 300,000+ Nominations, One Week Left!

The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is gaining momentum. We’ve had 300,000+ nominations made for 60,000+ individuals, companies, websites and applications.

If you haven’t nominated yet – and you can nominate once per category per day – now’s the time to do so. Nominations close November 15th, after which we move to the final vote.

A few high-level stats:

- 300,000+ nominations made

- 60,000+ nominees

- Most categories have less than 50 votes separating the 1st- and 2nd-placed nominee

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The Top 10 Facebook Apps [Poll Results]

Each week we do a Lunchtime Poll to get a sense of what tools Mashable readers use and which of today’s services and apps are your favorites. Last week we asked you about your favorite Facebook apps, and we have the results below.

As it turns out, like much of Team Mashable, many of you aren’t actually using too many Facebook applications these days. That’s probably what Facebook is hoping to turn around with some upcoming changes to Applications.

Still, from those of you who responded both here and on Facebook, there were some clear winners in the Facebook Apps department. Perhaps expectedly, social games figured prominently on the list. Take a look below to see the Top 10 as voted by you. Is your favorite Facebook App not represented here? Let us know in the comments.

Top 10 Mashable Reader Facebook Apps

10. Pet Society

9. Status Shuffle

8. Desktop Notifications

7. Restaurant City

6. Scrabble

5. Bejeweled Blitz

4. Twitter

3. Static FBML

2. Mafia Wars

1. FarmVille

See also: Top 10 Mashable Reader iPhone Apps

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Reviews: Facebook, Twitter, iStockphoto, pet society

Tags: facebook, facebook apps, facebook platform, poll, social gaming

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