Tiziano’s Blog

If you want to use BitTorrent or eMule on pc protected by a Cisco ASA 5505, you have to open some ports on your Cisco firewall in order to download at full speed.

To do this, try these rules in your firewall configuration:

access-list outside_access_in extended permit tcp any interface outside eq XXXX
static (inside,outside) tcp interface XXXX 192.168.1.4 XXXX netmask 255.255.255.255

Replace XXXX with the port number you need to open (e.g. 4662 TCP and 4672 UDP for eMule)

Replace 192.168.1.4 with your pc private lan IP.

Hitwise reports that web visits of Twitter have increased 8x in the last year. Compete shows about 900,000 U.S. monthly website visitors and Comscore puts the worldwide number at 1.3 million unique monthly visitors in March.

The key measure of Twitter usage is total users, total active users and total messages sent. And according to a source close to the company, these are the current Twitter usage stats:

March 2008
Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day