Facebook released some statistics yesterday: 350 million users, 1.6 billion messages sent by day, 2000 photos are uploaded per second… and btw, FarmVille (69 million) has more users than Twitter (18 million expected for 2009). Via Download Squad
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Tagging “@” friends on Facebook Status and Posts
Just as in Twitter: “Now, when you are writing a status update and want to add a friend’s name to something you are posting, just include the “@” symbol beforehand”. More here Via SEW
Hasbro: Monopoly Game with Google Maps
On the 9th of September Hasbro will launch the live worldwide game Monopoly City Streets using Google Maps as the game board. “It would appear that Hasbro, makers of the Monopoly game, is attempting to turn the franchise into a massively multi-player online game” More on the blog Via TechCrunch
50% of Tweets are published using Mobile and web-based tools
93.6% of users have less than 100 followers 21% of users have never posted a Tweet New York has the most Twitters users 85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day Want more? Read this. Via Econsultancy
40% of Tweets are Pointless Babble
If Twitter was a Village formed by 100 people, 5 of them would be known as loud mouths who create 75% of all the Twitter conversations. Twenty people would be dead because they have not tweeted at all, and 50 users would be lazy, whereby they have not tweeted at all in the past week. Moreover, from the average 100 tweets, 40% would be pointless babble… See the full study at Information is Beautiful Via CMSWire
Top 20 Countries for Social Networks Engagement
ComScore released last month results over an interesting study to identify the “Top 20 Highest Engagement Social Networking Country Audiences“. With 6.6 hours and 1307 pages per visitor per month, it was surprising that Russia has the most engaged audience, followed by Brazil and Canada. Mexico is ranked #11, with 4 hours and 488 pages per visitor per month. Read the Press Release.
What the F**k is Social Media: One Year Later
Juan, a friend from Avatar, sent me this file, which was developed by Espresso. Great introduction to Social Media for those companies wanting to start a conversation. What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
The Social Media Venn Diagram
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120 Popular Social Networks
I recently read a post from Drew Kerr at PR Rock and Roll in which he said that for college students the entire world of online networking is Facebook; and I think that college students might no be the only ones with that belief, a lot of companies out there might be thinking the same way. Despite that we already know about the top 25 social networks, we might be far from knowing every single one in detail. It sounds even impossible to achieve that as almost everyday a new social network is created, in fact, most recent versions of CMS solutions include modules for building social networks. For a brand, it might be desired to maintain a strong online presence across the net, or as Brian Solis calls, the Conversation Prism. On his post, Brian presents KnowEm, an online service that not only checks the availability of your username Seguir leyendo
5 Things Your Social Media Expert Should Know
Today, almost every company trying to increase its online presence wants to be part of the conversation. Most of them ask their agencies to develop strategies to “use” social media as part of their online marketing campaigns. Starting from here, the approach is wrong. As said previously, companies must not try to join the conversation, they must CREATE the conversation; and using social media must not be considered as part of the advertising activities. Until you don’t get that, you won’t be successful with social media. It is clear that you, as a Marketing head of a company, might not necessarily know all about the Social Media stuff, and thus want hire a Social Media Expert to do the job. Jason has just published at MarketingHackz his selection of the 5 things your social media expert should know: How to pitch bloggers: “Pitching bloggers requires more of a relationship than Seguir leyendo