Social Media Updates: Page 426

  • Social Gaming Activity on Facebook Shows Signs of Decline

    Whether you are active on Facebook or not, you most likely have heard friends, family and even the media talk about games such as "Farmville" or "Mafia Wars". These "social" games have been one of the largest growth areas in the video game industry, however recently the category has shown sign...

    By • June 12, 2010

  • If I Had a Million Followers, I'd Be (Fill in the Blank)

    On May 10th a bug caused every Twitter account to display the dreaded "0 Followers", causing millions of users to panic and contemplate their own "Twitter existence". People wondered if they would be forced to start over and if they did, would they take the same approach with their profile and...

    By • June 10, 2010

  • Most Twitter users don't tweet -Is that a problem?

    Twitter COO Dick Costolo who was speaking at the Conversational Media Summit in New York City, offered up that Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day. 65 million tweets a day. That's pretty cool. But it's this next sentence from Costolo t...

    By • June 10, 2010

  • 7 Factors To Consider Before You Follow Someone On Twitter

    Two of the most common questions asked when some begins using Twitter are, "Who should I follow? and "What should I look for when doing so?" There are a couple of schools of thought on the answer and it ties directly to what your goals are with your account. Some focus on growing the follower nu...

    By • June 9, 2010

  • Top 10 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube

    We all know that YouTube is a treasure trove of entertainment, with endless hours of Justin Bieber crooning to tweens and cats playing the piano. But it's also a terrific resource for learning â€" there are helpful how-tos about a wide range of topics that do a great job of breaking down complex...

    By • June 8, 2010

  • Why do you follow brands on Twitter?

    Image by [noone] via Flickr Some brands are very successful on Twitter. They might be using it for customer service, to engage with customers or to discuss issues that they might be interested in. For many brands, Twitter is a great way for brands to engage directly with consumers, to learn...

    By • June 5, 2010

  • "I Wish I Could Quit You," Facebook.

    "Quit Facebook Day" â€" an attempt to cripple the world's largest social networking site by encouraging dissatisfied users to leave en masse â€" has largely failed. Probably because it was scheduled for Memorial Day â€" a national holiday. A lot of people had other things planned for that day. ...

    By • June 4, 2010

  • Twitter: Focus on Quality over Quantity

    Earlier this week, I did a social media workshop at a magazine conference, and one of the questions about Twitter was whether it made sense to follow thousands of people - an approach taken by many people such as blogger Robert Scoble and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki. My immediate answer was "...

    By • June 4, 2010

  • Do You "Like" How I Look In These Jeans?

    Is the interconnected Web bringing us together, or making us all distracted voyeurs? Apparel company Diesel - who's aggressive marketing is consistently noteworthy - has rolled out perhaps the first-ever integration of Facebook "likes" in a dressing room.... Diesel boutiques in Spain now come eq...

    By • June 2, 2010

  • 5 Reasons Why Facebook Quit Day Was a Flop

    By now I'm sure you heard that talk is cheap; Facebook Quit Day earned the fail whale. Out of the multi-million users of Facebook, only 33,000 people quit. This was a surprise to some, but certainly not for me. I know why people did not quit Facebook: It was Memorial Day: To all those peo...

    By • June 1, 2010

  • Google Helps You Find Tweeps Like You

    Google recently introduced a new search tool that leverages the open API from Twitter to allow you to find Tweeps that have similar interests. You type in your @ Twitter handle and it returns a search results page that offers up a list of recommended users that have similar areas of interest t...

    By • May 27, 2010

  • Facebook: Too Big to Quit?

    Facebook drives people nuts. People are quitting over the latest privacy changes. Others are rushing to defend Zuckerburg and Facebook. And everyone else is caught in the middle of what to do with their account. I have a lot of friends who run social media campaigns or control their company's...

    By • May 27, 2010

  • LinkedIn - To Allow Or Not Allow Strangers?

    I recently reconnected to a large number of former colleagues via LinkedIn. Looking through their "connections", I noticed that some set their privacy settings very high. For example, you need to know their current email address in order to connect with them. Or, they only allow you to see the ...

    By • May 26, 2010

  • MySpace, Friendster Blew It: Why Facebook Rose to the Top

    According to Sean Parker, the former president of Facebook, Facebook would have never made it if it wasn't for very poor management of MySpace and Friendster. Don't believe me, watch the video. Link to original post

    By • May 26, 2010

  • How to Import Twitter Favorites to Your Facebook Page

    I must thank Heather for bringing up this brilliant question. To me, Twitter Favorites is another hidden gem for content discovery. Apart from discovering smart tips, Twitter Favorites works as a bookmarking tool to collect testimonials, acknowledgments about others and our work. Either way, i...

    By • May 25, 2010

  • LinkedIn Add Stats For Measuring Connection Effectiveness

    Fine, I'm a sucker for UI, Stats, and quirky changes to the aforementioned features on websites. I always want to know what they mean, why they were moved/touched/changed. Because you know somewhere somehow in the deep depths of the company, there was a meeting, a half-hour conference, or a dec...

    By • May 21, 2010

  • Twitter Search Gets a Little More Powerful

    We missed this last week when ReadWriteWeb reported it, but maybe you did, too. So here's something we've just discovered. A small but very handy change at Twitter's search engine, search.twitter.com, means it now peeks inside the expanded versions of web addresses shortened using services like ...

    By • May 21, 2010

  • One Infinite Facebook Loop

    I've started to notice a trend on brands' Facebook pages. Rather than landing on the Wall as the start page, you land on a special page with a branded image that includes links back to the brands' Web site.s This image map usually provides links back to the home page and a few other special page...

    By • May 21, 2010

  • Two Easy Ways To Still Get People To Your Facebook 'Landing Tab'

    Facebook surprised, and upset, a lot of people yesterday when they announced that now only "Authenticated Pages" or Pages with over 10,000 fans can have a custom landing tab. Not good news for individuals and small businesses who may have a hard time reaching 10,000 fans and don't have the mone...

    By • May 20, 2010

  • Why does Facebook hate us?

    Facebook just announced another major change yesterday: limiting landing tabs to "authenticated pages". This means that a "page must have greater than 10,000 fans or the Page admin must work with their ads account manager" to be "authentic". That landing tab acted as an introduction to the Fac...

    By • May 20, 2010

  • Twitter Usage and Brand control

    Twitter is a great tool. Microblogging your heart out can attract customers, build brand equity, and destroy your brand create a buzz among the digital cognoscenti. But Twitter also represents a fairly dramatic way to put your brand out there without much in the way of moment to moment contro...

    By • May 20, 2010

  • 6 Alternatives to Facebook

    With the entire internet attacking Mark Zuckerberg and the folks at Facebook for their extreme approach to Privacy (or the lack thereof,) many influencers including Leo Laporte have deleted their Facebook accounts in protest. With that being the case - the concept of an alternative to Facebook h...

    By • May 20, 2010

  • Twitter Profiles and the Three Second Rule

    What do you think makes a good Twitter profile? What makes you want to follow back? And what has you reaching for the bucket? Most mornings, sometime between about 10am - 11am, I'll start clicking through to see who my new Twitter followers are. I guess I'm aiming to give each profile a...

    By • May 18, 2010

  • Report: Top 20 Brands on Twitter April 2010

    Twitter is a stream of incredible collective consciousness. Every day, people all over the world share their experiences through a truly personal lens, providing insight into the real-world experiences and observations that inspire conversations, define communities, and move markets - all in r...

    By • May 17, 2010

  • 7 Brand Messages on Facebook: The Devil is in the Details

    We do a thing we call 'Conversation Management.' We train clients in the art and we have folks who are the next gen community managers or "conversation managers." At its heart, this always-on service is about managing a brands social Web platforms to build engagement, interaction and acquire fol...

    By • May 17, 2010