Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Facebook’s Improved Lists

Facebook makes changes to lists. Smart Lists are in! Facebook has had lists for years but they organizing them was a time consuming and tedious process. Finally realizing the need to make the lives of its users easy, Facebook has revisited the lists and made them better. To make them easy and more useful, its [...]

Facebook creates jobs and contributes billions to the U.S. Economy

Facebook apps add over 200k jobs and over $15 billion to the U.S. economy A new study by the University of Maryland Business School has revealed that  Facebook applications has created over 180,000 jobs and contributed over $12 billion to the U.S. economy. The study shows that Facebook applications have created 53,000 jobs in the [...]

Workaround gives Chinese users Twitter access – Update

Twitter workaround blocked by governmentThis is an update to my previous post about a server workaround which granted access to Twitter in China. The workaround has been effectively blocked by the government and is no longer working. I tested the link and below are the test results:

Google+ Users Share Directions and more…

Google enriches its social network by integration with its key servicesGoogle+, Google’s social networking service has a new feature introduced to it which allows users to share directions from Google Maps to Google+. The +snippets, which adds a link, descriptions and an thumbnail to whatever you want to share with your circles on Google+. Bradley [...]

Workaround gives Chinese users Twitter access

A Chinese user has discovered a workaround to access Twitter from within China where it has been blocked since 2009 by the government. Twitter has been blocked since June 2009 and the users in China are using their local versions called Sina and Tencent with a combined 300 million registered users.

Post Tweets to Facebook button in Twitter profile

Twitter has added a “Post Tweets to Facebook” button in its user profile section that will allow users to easily link their Twitter account to Facebook account. Clicking the button will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and link the two accounts allowing tweets to be posted to Facebook as status updates.

Ignore people on Google+

As most of you would know, if you’re part of a social network, there will be times when lurkers and annoying individuals trying to add you or message you. As we’ve seen and I’ve personally experienced with Facebook, the number of friends requests and pokes from random people is ridiculous. Many a times, these people [...]

Twitter’s most recent acquisition: BackType

Twitter has acquired social analytics firm BackType. BackType helps firms analyse the reach for their twitter content and make smarter marketing decisions. The firm gets information like who they are reaching, how their tweets are converting to web traffic and understand and develop sales and KPI’s. BackType will be joining the Twitter platform team where they [...]

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