Tag Archive | "Social Networking"
Social Media
By the time you finish reading this article, nearly 30,000 tweets will have been posted. On December 19, Mashable announced that there were officially more than more tweets in the world than people. While the world population is roughly 6.79 billion people, the number of tweets is now well over 7 billion. It took roughly three years, [...]
Social Media,Social Networking
Yes, I know it looks like something that would never happen, but since the launch of Facebook’s URL shortening service yesterday, TechCrunch confirmed that Facebook will now have the ability to send your status updates from the site onto Twitter. Surprisingly, this will be an option directly on your Facebook status bar, and you will not need a [...]
Company News
As we all know, companies world-wide are taking advantage of Twitter, from major corporations like Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, and Amazon to smaller companies such as iePlexus. Late Monday, Twitter’s Anamitra Banerji wrote in a blog post that some new features will soon be coming to Twitter to help benefit businesses. There has been much talk about having companies pay [...]
Social Media,Social Networking
By far, one of my favorite things about social media is the amount of free things you can get. For example, over the summer, I was tweeting back and forth with FOX Chicago news anchor Nancy Loo. She had mentioned that one of her co-anchors had never had popcorn from Garrett Popcorn, a famous Chicago [...]
Social Bookmarking,Social Media,Social Networking,Web 2.0
Facebook seems to have yet another statistic which will amaze us once again. Last week on December 4, Facebook’s feature, Facebook Connect celebrated its one year anniversary since joining the site. Late Wednesday, the company announced some pretty amazing statistics. “Today, we are celebrating the first anniversary of Facebook Connect from the LeWeb conference in France,” said Ethan [...]
Industry News,Social Media
It would make sense that a major computer company would use its computers to market their product. Earlier this year Dell joined the Twitter bandwagon, and currently is one of the most followed companies with just under 1.5 million followers. In a blog post this morning, Lionel Menchaca, Dell’s Chief Blogger, wrote that social media brings, “a [...]
Social Media,Social Networking,Studies & Stats
Facebook has always been on top, when it comes to user privacy and keeping their information secure. On Monday, Facebook announced they were in the process of forming the Global Advisory Board. The group consists of five organizations including Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute. Facebook plans on regularly meeting [...]
Social Media,Social Networking
While many of us can’t imagine living without things “made in China,” the Chinese don’t seem very impressed with some of things coming out of the good ole USA. I’m most specifically talking about microblogging. Sites like Twitter have swept America by storm this year. In fact, a report from Sysomos earlier this year said that only [...]
Social Media,Social Networking,Web 2.0
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone assured reporters Monday that, contrary to popular belief, the microblogging website is not up for sale, and there are no plans for a sale. However, Stone said Twitter may eventually go public on the stock market for funding if necessary. “We are definitely not interested in selling the company,” he said. Later on he suggested that Twitter could [...]
Social Media,Social Networking
Over the weekend, James Roppo, vice president of Island Def Jam Records was arrested in Garden City, N.Y. His crime: not tweeting. Yes, as in not using the popular social networking site, Twitter. Roppo was in Garden City with Canadian teen pop sensation Justin Bieber, who was supposed to perform a free concert for the [...]
