Adobe Air Announces 100 Million Downloads. Thanks Twitter

• Today at Adobe MAX in Japan, Adobe announced that AIR has been installed over 100 million times. Also, as of December, Flash Player 10 was installed on 55% of computers worldwide. Flash Player 10 is breaking all previous adoption rate records for any Flash Player, and Adobe projects that it will have greater than 80% penetration by the second quarter of 2009.
• The company attributes a vast majority of the AIR downloads to popular social applications stemming from Twitter, such as TweetDeck and Twirhl. Here are the top 5 applications mentioned @ the event.

• • Adobe Media Player
  • AOL Top 100
  • eBay Desktop
  • TweetDeck
  • Twirhl

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