Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12
I vote for @sarasocialmedia for the @B2BTOTY Award in category #B2BSMB because…she is essential to our social media team! # @artofbeingblunt not all of them but a lot of them in reply to artofbeingblunt # @three_divas you bet! Fanned your Fbook page too! in reply to three_divas # @cherubs always support you guys! in reply to cherubs # @cherubs you bet! Cant help but support you in memory of @sarasocialmedia's Cherub Jadyn Ryanne #giveback in reply to cherubs # RT @cherubs:...
Read MoreBeware … The End Is Near … For Google, At Least.
Pundits web wide are asking if Google is afraid of Facebook based on the latest comScore data regarding time spent on sites owned by each of the megalith internet companies. Well … hold on a minute … last time I checked, actual time spent on Google’s search site averages about 3 nano seconds to return about 150 gazillion results, while Facebook users languish in the throws of interpersonal communication for hours on end. Hardly a fair fight. Yes, I do realize they are talking about...
Read MoreSocial Networking by People 50+ Doubles in One Year Pew Research Reports
A new Internet & American Life Project by the Pew Research Center reveals that social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Social networking use among Internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88 percent over the past year, from 25 percent in April 2009 to 47 percent in May of 2010. During the same period, use among those 65 and...
Read MoreTwitter Wants You To Push Its Buttons … Twitter’s New Tweet Button, That Is
Tweet Twitter has become ubiquitous with sharing information through social media. In fact, according to a recent post on their blog, Twitter shares that nearly a quarter of all Tweets include a link. One of the common complaints surrounding Twitter is the work that is required to share information in the form of a Tweet. Copy. Paste. Shorten the link. Bouncing around between multiple browser tabs. Twitter thinks that this is simply too much work, and in a wave of recent improvement...
Read MoreKing James and How He Leveraged Twitter …
Tweet What can business owners learn from LeBron James? Any thoughts on what the most active water cooler buzz was about recently? World events? Global warming? The BP oil debacle? Not so much … Arguably the biggest question on the tip of everybody’s tongue was where NBA all star LeBron James would end up? While the rest of the NBA’s free agents had their people release their future plans to the media, LeBron took an unusual and heretofore untried marketing approach. Keeping his...
Read MoreThe New York Times Bans the Use of the Word “Tweet”? … Well, Not Yet.
Tweet Aah! The Internet … source of all information, wellspring of data, and now it seems … not to be (entirely) trusted … who knew?? Recently a blog post by Choire Sicha (common pronunciation) at TheAwl.com proclaimed that New York Times standards editor, Phil Corbett had issued a memo banning the use of “tweet” the invented past tense version of the noun-verb Twitter. The fact is, Phil Corbett did send out a memo, a portion of which is included below. Mr. Corbett however, has...
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