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Facebook Copying Twitter @Mentions
14th September 2009
It looks as though, Facebook will do all that is required to slow down the growth of Twitter and to retain their own popularity. More »
Digg Adds Nofollow To All Stories That Aren’t Popular
7th September 2009
Digg recently added the rel=”nofollow” attribute to some links on their site, whose quality and veracity they are not sure of. This move comes hot on the heels of Twitter, who did the same for all their links last week. More »
Twitter Geolocation Service Due For Launch
27th August 2009
So far it has been difficult to assess the geographic location from which a tweet originates, due to the unavailability of sophisticated apps required for the purpose. Twitter will soon launch a new feature to make this process simple. More »
Twitter Slaps SEOs With Nofollow On All Links
26th August 2009
A year ago, Twitter was known to only a handful of people who were all search and social media marketing enthusiasts. These search and social media professionals saw the potential in Twitter and promoted it on their blogs, in their emails and in a lot of their communications. Twitter has repaid the favour by treating all users as spammers and slapped rel=”nofollow” attributes onto all external links. More »
Twitter Monetisation Through Commercial Accounts
25th August 2009
For a long time now, there has been speculation that Twitter will start some service that would provide the site with an opportunity to earn some revenue. They now seem ready to do just that. More »
ReTweet Button Growth Disproportionate To Usage
24th August 2009
TweetMeme, a service that monitors the popularity of tweets and links being sent out on Twitter, has itself grown rapidly in the past few months, due to the extremely popular retweet buttons. Usage of the service, though, has not quite kept up with this growth. More »
40 Percent Of Twitter Just Pointless Babble
17th August 2009
Marketing analytics company, Pear Analytics, recently conducted a study about the type of Tweets being sent out on Twitter. They found that over 40% of tweets were just “pointless babble” More »
Twitter To The Defense Of NHS
14th August 2009
Whatever the Americans (Republicans in particular) may think of the UK’s National Health Service, the Brits obviously love it – so much that when someone criticised it, they tweeted enough in defense of the NHS to bring Twitter down. More »
Google Search Gets A Shot Of Caffeine
13th August 2009
When Microsoft Launches a new search engine, could Google be far behind? Of course not! Hot on the heels of BingTweets, Google announced on the Webmaster Central Blog that they will soon launch a new and upgraded version of their search engine. More »
More Twitter Links Than Facebook In Email
5th August 2009
Analysts have begun to realize that there is a strong link between a brand’s presence on social media and the revenue it generates. Research is also showing that Twitter is overtaking Facebook as the medium of choice for building this brand presence. More »
Twitter’s New Homepage
31st July 2009
Twitter has been trying to expand their user base, and as a positive step in that direction, they have changed their homepage. More »
Traditional Media Delivers News Faster Than Social Media
20th July 2009
A number of recent major news events and breaking news stories were reported first on blogs and microblogging sites like Twitter, even before they were reported by the traditional media. However a study conducted at Cornell University finds that traditional media still remains vital in delivering the news first. More »
Facebook Dominates US And Worldwide
17th July 2009
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced this week that the site has now overtaken MySpace to become the top social network in the USA. More »
Did Twitter Really Destroy Bruno?
16th July 2009
The success or failure of a movie is traditionally judged by its box office collections over the very first weekend of its release. However in the case of the movie Bruno, some believe its success is determined by the nature of tweets about the movie. More »
Microsoft Trumps Google Again With BingTweets
15th July 2009
Microsoft is really sticking to the promise they made of providing further innovations to their new decision engine, Bing. Following closely on the heels of the integration of Bing into Hotmail, they have now presented another novel service called BingTweets. More »
Will Google Start A Micro-Blogging Search Engine?
15th June 2009
The ever growing popularity of the micro-blogging site, Twitter, and the large number of microblogs being constantly posted on it, have made it extremely difficult for users to find exactly what they are looking for. More »
Women Favor Blogs Over Twitter
14th May 2009
The 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass partners revealed some very interesting habits of women as far as the use of blogs and other forms of social media are concerned. More »
Facebook Brings Live Updates To News Feed
13th May 2009
Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. More »
Twitter Search To Start Indexing Web Content
12th May 2009
Santosh Jayaram, the new V.P. of Operations at Twitter recently said that they will soon start crawling and indexing links that are posted on Twitter. This means that Twitter search results could include several web pages that are crawled from links within tweets. More »
How Loyal Are Twitter Users?
6th May 2009
It is a well known fact that Twitter has grown at an explosive rate lately – their unique audience was up 100% in March – however, the site does not seem to be very addictive to its new users. More »
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