Ben Israel on all things conversational
... it was just 3.9 million users at the end of 2009. via: http://www.insidefacebook.com
Sysomos, a social media analytics firm, released results from an on-going study that looks at Twitter's growth and international usage. They didn't have access to official Twitter information, so they used Twitter activity between mid-October to mid-December 2009 from 13 million users (that were actively tweeting during that time) as their base. They looked at "tweeting activity both in terms of the country/city of origin of each twitter and also in terms of overall twitting activity (how frequently they tweet...
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In a new blog post, Facebook has announced that it will proceed with further changes to its Developer Principles and Policies effective December 16th. These changes, again, concern how 3rd party applications interact and engage with Facebook users. A large part of these changes is an increasing focus on enforcement. Paul Jeffries, Facebook's Head of Platform Policy Team, says, "we're investing in personnel and technology to help us better uncover and rapidly respond to policy violations. You'll continue to be able...
YouTube's head of news and politics, Steve Grove, says: "People around the world are taking up cameras and covering news in ways big and small - from documenting global events, to filming local town halls in neighborhoods. YouTube Direct empowers news and media organisations to easily connect with these citizen reporters, and use the power of our platform to cover the news better than ever before." "YouTube Direct is like a loop between a news website and YouTube. It wraps up YouTube's upload site in a box and places...
Just came out of a meeting where I was surprised to learn that Facebook has introduced major changes to its rules and guidelines on how promotions are done on the Facebook platform. I haven't seen or read any further explanation from Facebook about this. So, the only way to find out is to read the legal jargon here: http://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php. The Facebook Promotions Guideliness only applies if you're doing a product promotion, which involves a prize and winner selection. Summary: If...
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From: http://blog.facebook.com/ Facebook now allows you to have two views of the news feed: (1) a summary view of the most interesting activity that's happened in the last day and (2) a real-time view that shows you what is happening right now. You will be able to catch up on what you may have missed while you were away from Facebook and then easily switch to the real-time stream when you want to see posts as soon as they're shared. Here's how it works: News Feed When you log into Facebook, you...
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