Entries Tagged as 'Social Networks'

People Who Follow Brands Are More Likely to Buy Their Stuff

Recent studies shows that people who become fans (Facebook) or follow (Twitter) different brands tend to buy, or recommend to others, their products.

GetGlue Social Recommendation Site Rolls Out Taste Neighbors

Of course I wouldn’t expect that all of you knew social recommendation site GetGlue because to be honest I discovered the site pretty recently. Anyway, to give you a brief background of GetGlue, the site is described as an innovative social recommendation network for movies, books, and music – three things which a normal human [...]

LinkedIn 3.1 for iPhone Promises a Better Mobile Social Networking App

Although the iPhone OS 3.1 has been around for quite some time now, it is only now that LinkedIn’s iPhone app is being updated to adapt to the new version of the iPhone OS. But like they said better late than never, right?

Twitter Launches @Anywhere Framework, Prelude to Web Domination?

Are you ready for Twitter’s internet domination? Well, if push comes to shoves, it looks like that’s where the Twitter folks want to bring their popular and widely use social communication tool. That’s the power to tweet, retweet, follow and unfollow no matter where you are in the internet. Or another way of putting could [...]

Farmville Helps Bing’s Facebook Page Gain Tons of Fans in a Day

Funny how Internet giants could affect each not only in the negative way but positive as well. Take the case of Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine and its Facebook fan page. After running an ad campaign offer within Farmville, the most popular game in Facebook, Bing’s Fan Page was able to gain around 400,000 new fans [...]

50 Million Tweets Per Day

Twitter is growing like crazy! Yea, we all know this. Twitter today reached amazing 50 million tweets per day – wow, that’s truly amazing. Retweet this post and give it a little push to the next milestone.
Congratulations Twitter team!
Here is what they are saying:
Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that [...]

Five Reasons Why Google Buzz Will Continue to Buzz Out

Several days after it was rolled out, some users may have already buzz out of Google Buzz and totally muted out Gmail Buzz. While some continue to use it as I for one keeps on getting buzz updates from those I follow. The good thing about this is that Google quickly responded to various privacy concerns [...]

10 Apps To Schedule Future Tweets on Twitter

Few weeks ago we published list of Twitter tools for auto following users depending on keyword and now, when you have your audience set up, you may want to provide for your followers useful and interesting information. Below you will find 10 great online applications to schedule your future tweets and keep your account updated [...]

Twitter Statistics of User Engagement

Twitter is growing as mad, but stats from RJMetrics shows decline in the number of new account registration for last six months. If Twitter is growing slower is it means it is near it’s peak? By the end of 2009 there was around 75 million active users.

Find Best Looking Twitter Pages – Twitter Skin Fight

How do you know you twitter page is best looking? You ask your friend or colleague right? We all know he will tell you that your page is number one – he is your mate, stupid! You may want to get in real Twitter Skin Fight!
Folks over Twitter Skin Fight have a great [...]

Be Green – Don’t Print Twitter on Paper

Folks over Creative Cloud made a calculations about what would be if you printed Twitter – don’t do this! It would cost you $24,000,000 ($55 millions if you choose Twitter blue) and take 3,5 Million pounds of paper.
Be green – don’t print Twitter – you can read it online here!

Time Spent on Social Networks Increases by 82% in 2009

There is no doubt that social networking is a significant part of our daily routine. Tweeting and updating your Facebook status is as usual chatting with your work buddies drinking morning coffee in the office.
According to Nielsen, last year we spent 82% more time on social networking sites than we did in 2008.