This is the latest social infographic out from website-monitoring and this time it’s on twitter, with the statistics rounded up during the month of April this year. Some of the latest stats show a 55% female skew and primarily 18-34 age distribution at about 45% of all tweeps! Some of the more interesting stats show that 41% [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Students from the Berghs School of Communication in Sweeden have launched a social experiment that is perfectly themed to attract some serious attention! They are creating a live piece of artwork at Don’t Tell Ashton, a new website that holds the profile images of people who re-tweeted the campaign page in scale to their twitter following, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
This is quite a cool digital campaign by StruckAxiom called “Flame It” for the latest DreamWorks movie “How To Train Your Dragon”. It taps into everyones destructive urges and allows you to literally flame anything you can think of online… Check it out here. Friends Facebook pages, twitter accounts, blogs, news or shopping sites, anything! Start flaming and it [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 21, 2010
In March 2010, Twitter recorded it’s 10 Billionth tweet, which is a huge landmark for a company that really only found traction in 2009. To mark the ocassion, Mashable created this infographic to chart the path to 10 Billion Tweets and look at where twitter is now.
Continue reading...Sunday, February 28, 2010
If you haven’t seen this already, it’s a pretty cool little app that NBC launched as part of their Winter Olympic coverage for the 2010 Vancouver Games. The Tweet Tracker is made up of a picture grid that expands and contracts each sport depending on the current buzz being generated. You’ll also be able to dig in to see [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Kevin Weil the Analytics Lead at Twitter released a new presentation about how they are store and analyze of it’s 100 Billion tweets. The presentation is generally focused on different technical conditions but there are also some useful business requirements related to analysis and the storage of massive data as well.
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Google Wave was a pretty big step up from email – and maybe it was a bit too much of a step leap away from the email messaging we are all used to using for it to gain traction in the marketplace. What could be bridging that gap is Buzz, and it is on its [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 29, 2009
McDonald’s hasn’t over played their hand in the social space so far, and that’s probably a good thing for most brands to consider when getting into social media. What I like about the McDonald’s approach so far, is that they are there listening, have become willing conversationalists and are activating engagement, BUT are not trying to be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
What’s twitter good for? Ok, thousands of things, but at a top level, strip out the spam and you’re left with a whole lot of live action. So how do you capitalize on live action? Engage followers and collaborate to offer them something they can be apart of. That’s exactly what Johanna Basford is currently doing live on twitter. A [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
This is a great way of looking at how people use twitter and how twitter is seen to the world. The Twitter Statistics Visualization by David at Information Is Beautiful shows the skews between men and women on twitter, the % of spammers, robots, loud mouths, content creators, quitters and more. Enjoy the great visual [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
EA Games has a great Twitter promotion running at the moment catering to car aficionados, and gamers alike for their new Need For Speed: Shift game. There are five missions that need to be completed over five days. Todays mission? Find a BMW on Google Maps Street View, take a screenshot and post it to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
If there were awards for the cutest logo – Brizzly would win hands down. The little bear in the bird suit is one of the best mascots for a web application I’ve seen since the MailChimp. But Brizzly is more than just cute, Thing Labs have brought the powerful ideas and features that make web [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
Ok ok. So twitter can create a buzz about anything at the moment, but a Nobel Peace Prize!? What The?! WebProNews is getting plenty of attention after posting this article and video. Is twitter hype just getting out of control at the moment or is this some kind of weird joke? Enjoy the video!
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Mark from Adverblog just posted up a great new campaign being launched by V Australia on Twitter called 4320:LA. Yes, Twitter, what else would you have expected?! 4320:LA is the number of minutes they are challenging you to tweet – one tweet per minute on their new 3 day LA holiday packages. All you have to [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 5, 2009
How do you know when your business hits the Big Time? (ok, they already know that but…) Easy, when World Of Warcraft (the most wildly successful online game ever) integrates your app! That’s right, Twitter has just been integrated into WOW and although I’m not a fan of the game, I can see how the [...]
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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