People tweet most in North America, Britain, the Netherlands and Japan, while scenic areas such as Iceland, Scotland, New Zealand and the game reserves in Africa see more photographic activity on Flikr, according to this visually stunning infographic.
Newspaper publishers who want to create an engaged community of readers have to ensure that all the content on their site is published to strict journalist and community guidelines, even content fed from social media platforms. Tamara Littleton, CEO of social media management agency, eModeration, advises on how this can be done.
Worldwide social media ad revenues will reach $5.54bn this year, with just under half ($2.74bn) coming from the US, according to a new study.
Facebook’s registered UK division posted revenues of £15.3m back in 2010, up 54% on 2009, according to a recent news report.
The Google+ button is now on 1 million sites and appears in 4 billion impressions every day, but that’s more to do with the fact that it’s Google than with the button being useful. So, who is actually using the Google+ button, are they in their millions, are they in fact real? Juan Vargas, SEO … [Read more…]
Traffic has exploded on Google+ after the social networking site opened to the public, with its market share closing in on Linkedin and MySpace, according to new data.
Facebook is predicted to double revenue this year to £2.72bn, as advertisers flock to the social network.
Facebook is launching a ‘Subscribe’ button, letting users follow the public updates of others, regardless of whether they are Facebook friends.
Twitter has launched a new web analytics tool, helping site owners keep track of Twitter-driven traffic, as the micro-blooging site looks to appeal to the enterprise segment. Separately, the company also announced plans to expand its Promoted Tweets platform.
Controversial whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has been targeted by hackers this week.