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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 »
Social Media Sites Not Regarded Highly
26th July 2010
Foresee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index, have recently conducted a study to find out how customers in the U.S. feel about various social media sites. More »
Over-Inflated Twitter Search Volumes
21st July 2010
For some time now, it has been believed that the number of search queries that Twitter receives is growing in leaps and bounds. This might not be completely true. More »
Twitter May Sell Followers
13th July 2010
There is a rumour going around that Twitter will soon make it possible to buy followers. More »
Twitter Confirms Realtime Analytics
9th July 2010
Twitter has just confirmed on their engineering blog that they are using the realtime analytics system Cassandra. More »
Social Media Dominates Asian Internet Use
8th July 2010
Nielsen has recently released the findings of their study about the use of social networks in the Asia Pacific region. As expected, the use of social media is growing in popularity in that region. More »
Sponsored Trending Topics Working Well
6th July 2010
The recently released Sponsored Trending Topics feature by Twitter seems to be doing quite well. Some well known brands have already attached themselves to this feature, and the latest to do so is the NBA. More »
Facebook Follows Twitter To Location Awareness
23rd June 2010
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that location-based features will be launched on the social network in the near future. More »
Promoted Tweets In Trending Twitter Topics
18th June 2010
After the successful launch of promoted tweets in April, Twitter has now decided to go ahead with a new service that should help them further increase revenues. More »
What Draws Silver Surfers To Facebook?
17th June 2010
The commonly held notion that the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are frequented only by the young is turning out to be absolutely false. 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 »
Google Testing Real Time Twitter Ads
8th June 2010
Last month Google started testing a new form of display ad that integrates realtime updates from Twitter into the AdWords ad delivery platform. More »
Twitter Bans Third Party Apps
28th May 2010
In a recent blog post, Twitter has announced that they will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline or any service that leverages the Twitter API. 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 »
User Generated Advertising Not A Hit
26th May 2010
User generated advertising has become one of the latest fads in the online advertising industry. An article on Advertising Age warns brands that “in more and more cases, fan-generated ads trend toward uninspired, cynical and just downright bad.” 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 »
Embedding Tweets Instead Of Pasting Them
5th May 2010
A Twitter employee has built a bit of code that makes it easy for users to embed tweets on a blog. Twitter has announced this development on their media blog. More »
Facebook And StumbleUpon Drive Most Social Traffic
28th April 2010
According to statistics released by analytics firm, StatCounter, Facebook has retained its place as the largest source of traffic from social media to global websites in March 2010. More »
Twitter Claims More Searches Than Bing, Yahoo!
16th April 2010
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, said at the Chirp conference recently that Twitter users carry out about 600 million searches per day. Twitter’s director of search Doug Cook added that the number of queries reaches the 750 million mark on certain days and he expects it to cross 1 billion fairly soon. More »
Google Enables Twitter Archive Search
15th April 2010
Ever since the introduction of real-time search last December, Google has added content from sites like MySpace, Facebook and Buzz. The data is now available in 40 different languages. Google has also added a links feature to help people find the most relevant information with updates from Twitter. More »
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