How are Fortune 100 Companies Leveraging Social Media
ShareFlowtown has put together another great infographic on how Fortune 100 companies are leveraging social media. It’s very interesting to see that Twitter is the most popular and the percentages of companies using all platforms is still pretty minimal. Take a look for yourself for additional insights. Anything stand out to you? Read More
Why Businesses Should Use micro-Blogging [Infographic]
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What Do People Do When there Is No Facebook… They Tweet?
ShareTwitter and Facebook are the craze for everyone in social media however, are these two social networks mutually interchangeable? On September 23rd Facebook went down for three hours allowing us some time to look and see what Facebook users do when there is no Facebook. This graph shows the previous three Thursdays prior to the Facebook outage and it’s easily notice able that the volume of conversation on Twitter rose dramatically during... Read More
Twitter Contests Are Dead, Groupon Is Alive
ShareTwitter contest might not be completely dead however, they’re loosing their value. Two years ago a Twitter contest was an original idea that would increase your following base with qualified followers since the concept was so new people were just flat out interested to follow those doing something amazing. Now twitter contest are more than abundant and the followers that you gain are people that will more than likely never interact with you... Read More
MTV VMA Interactive Twitter Tracking [Infographic]
ShareDuring the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV collaborated with Twitter and Stamen to track the social media activity through the event. The Twitter visualization ranks the artists on the amount of tweets per minuet that they received during the VMAs. I’m a little bummed that they built this visualization on flash instead of HTML5 but the nice thing is users can tweet directly from the application increasing MTV’s engagement with their fans. The... Read More
Twitter Releases A New User Interface And Functionality
Share Twitter finally revealed their new and improved user interface. This new UI will more than likely attract new users to twitter, improve engagement between users and make it much more user friendly for new tweeters. Additionally these new updates provide new opportunities for marketers to leverage. When you first look at the new Twitter UI there doesn’t seem to be any major changes. The left column used for your twitter stream has been shortened,... Read More
Top Real-Time Search Engines: Their Benefits And Concerns
Share Social search is a new wave a of search that will have more of an impact on SEO than all the hubbub around Google Instant. Since the boom of Web 2.0 or the social revolution search engines have not implemented measurably improved search results over algorithmic search engines. Most search engines that have seen some improvements have a human element behind the algorithm improving the filtering process of the search results. Even though all of... Read More
Twitter Trends In Germany [Infographic]
ShareTwitter trends have been visualized a million times but one thing that doesn’t get tons of attention is visualizing Twitter trends outside of the United States. One of the most interesting parts of this infographic is seeing that the Old Spice campaign that was so popular in the U.S. made it as a trend in Germany as well. Looking at international trends is a great way to find unique internet campaigns that haven’t reached the states yet and... Read More
Revisit: Interactive Visualization For What People are Stumbling Through Twitter
Sharerevisit is a great project that visualizes twitter messages in real-time for a specific topic. The picture below is all of the people in the twitter-sphere talking about or linking to Stumbleupon. The twitter stream tools, provides a sense of the temporal dynamics in the twitter stream emphasizing the conversational that’s established by retweets and @replies. . The next image is tracking everyone that is using Su.pr or posting through the... Read More
Paper.li Twitter Aggregated Webzines
Share Personally I don’t know if I would use this product however, it’s does look pretty spiffy. Blog posts, videos, pictures and links flow through twitter almost at the speed of light, at least if feels that way sometimes. SmallRivers’ Paper.li project is all about slowing this stream down so your followers can extract the key content from your streams by allowing you to take your twitter streams and creating a daily newspaper. The value... Read More
