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Twitter Paving The Way For Privacy Law Reform
23rd May 2011
Twitter is once again the source of breaking news in the UK, except this time the story revolves around protecting / invading the privacy of a local footballer. More »
LinkedIn Today Delivers Social News Headlines
11th March 2011
Popular professional networking site, LinkedIn, has recently launched a new service called LinkedIn Today. More »
Twitter Targets SME Advertisers
2nd March 2011
Twitter has already become a fairly popular marketing site for big brands and it is now setting its sites on small and medium sized businesses. In order to attract this segment of the market, they will have to lure the online ad agencies that cater to these businesses. More »
Americans Use Twitter A Lot More
1st February 2011
For some time now, there has been a debate going on about whether Twitter continues to grow or not. Recent data from Experian Simmons DataStream has now affirmed that Twitter is growing, especially in the U.S.A. More »
Social Media Used To Fuel Civil Unrest In Egypt
31st January 2011
Protestors in Egypt are using various social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as well as mobile communications to spread their message to the outside world. More »
Is Twitter Still Growing?
21st January 2011
In spite of a lot of speculation last year that Twitter’s growth might have plateaued, Twitter disclosed that as of the 1st of January 2011, they had nearly 200 million registered accounts, and received about 110 million tweets every day. More »
24 hr Twitter Experiment By UK Police
15th October 2010
Greater Manchester Police conducted a 24-hour social media experiment. They tweeted every incident they dealt with during the time period in the hope of raising public awareness of the work they do. More »
71% Tweets Generate No Response
6th October 2010
Irrespective of the rapid rate at which twitter continues to grow, it has been found that the vast majority of Tweets receive neither a reply nor a retweet. More »
Kevin Rose To Leave Digg?
30th September 2010
Digg used to be a leading social news site until recently. Now, the site has not been doing too well. This has been openly admitted by founder, Kevin Rose, whose own future in the company is now being questioned. More »
Goodbye Propeller
29th September 2010
AOL-owned social news site Propeller.com has recently announced that the site will soon be shutting down. More »
New Twitter Interface To Debut
20th September 2010
Twitter has just introduced a new interface for Twitter.com. This new interface will not only make the site faster, but will also make it easier to use. More »
StumbleUpon Launches Auto-Targeting For Advertisers
17th September 2010
A few days ago, StumbleUpon has launched a new service for their advertisers, which will allow them to auto-target their ad campaigns. More »
Size Of Social Media In U.K.
11th August 2010
An Ireland based social media and online PR company, Simply Zesty, has released some interesting details about the use of the social media in the U.K. More »
Twitter Launches Places
15th June 2010
Twitter has finally announced that the launch of their long-awaited geolocation service, in the form of a new feature known as Twitter Places. More »
Huge Gap In New Vs Old Media News Channels
27th May 2010
The growing popularity of the Internet, in general, and blogs and social media, in particular, has resulted in new sources from which people now collect their news. More »
Twitter Launching Business Center
12th May 2010
Twitter has confirmed that they have started testing their new services aimed at businesses. The first, known as the Twitter Business Center, is already live and is being tested by a handful of companies. More »
News Consumers Favour Multiple Sources
5th March 2010
A joint survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism studied the habits of American consumers with regard to their preferred sources for daily news. More »
Twitter Advertising Service Details Emerge
3rd March 2010
Rumours about Twitter’s monetisation efforts and a potential ad platform have been around for a very long time. A few details about how their ad platform are now being uncovered. More »
Social Media More Popular With Teens Than Blogs
8th February 2010
A study conducted by the Pew Research Center, has shown that the once popular blogs are now unsurprisingly taking a backseat, while social networks like Facebook are taking centre stage on the Internet. More »
How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
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