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2012 is shaping up to be the year of social ‘everything’ from social CRM to the social customer and social TV is no exception. Consumers are turning to the so-called second screen like never before. A 2011 whitepaper prepared by Yahoo/Nielsen reported that as many as 86 percent of viewers use mobile devices while watching [...]
A report by Deloitte Services LP, the 2009 Tribalization of Business study, evaluates the perceived potential of online communities and identifies how organisations believe they may better utilise them. The survey results indicate that while organisations are effectively using online tools to engage with customers, partners, and employees for brand discussion and idea generation, organizations [...]
Article written by Ron Knight and reproduced courtesy of SiteProNews.com Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging service. It involves writing Tweets, which are short updates of a maximum of 140 characters that tell your followers what you are up to. Although your Tweets are technically supposed to answer the question, “What are you doing?” Twitter [...]
Mutterings about the decline of Twitter are surfacing in blogs as August was the first month of the year in which tweets sent by Twitter users decreased. In addition, user registrations decreased for the second time this year (month-to-month). Matthew Daines, the lead developer of the Twitter app, Twellow, has shared a couple of graphs [...]
Online sales in the UK is defying the economic woes with growth of almost 16 per cent in just one month, as one in fifteen people made an online purchase during July alone. So is this evidence of a recovery from the recession or a change in consumer purchasing patterns? Overall online sales were up [...]
A recent study from comScore into UK social networking site usage found that 29.4 million people accessed at least one social networking site in the UK during May 2009. Social networking has become a major online activity across all age groups, with 80 percent of the total UK online population having visited a social networking [...]
Twitter directories are basically a collection of people or groups of Twitter users interested in various topics who would like to be able to communicate with each other with similar interests. Typically, on each site, there is a list of members, categories of groups, search and a tweet stream that lists tweets from the group [...]
One of Jerusalem’s most holiest sites has entered the Twitter age with its own Twitter address, allowing believers around the world to tweet their prayers, get them printed and concealed within the ancient stones. The site says that it exists “to give anyone on earth the opportunity to place his prayers in the Kotel”, as [...]
Twitter has generated almost $50m, (£31m), worth of free publicity over the last 30 days as media coverage of the microblogging service remains frenzied following the leaks about its strategy. Research from news monitoring service VMS puts the value of Twitter’s TV, newspaper and magazine coverage at $48m (£29m), equivalent, incredibly, to half of what [...]
The in-vogue social networking site Twitter is in a flutter and taking legal advice after hundreds of documents were hacked into and published by a number of blogs. TechCrunch, one of the most respected blogs in Silicon Valley, has made public some of the 310 bits of material it was sent after a hacker who [...]