Teens Don’t Tweet; Twitter’s Growth Not Fuel. CHART OF THE DAY: Users Spent A Billion Hours On Facebook In Jun. First rough sketch of storystreaming platform, Twitter first. Here is a very rough look at how a storystreaming platform could be used to make sense of the confusing flood of information coming out of social media streams. To keep thing simple, the mockup only shows how Twitter sources might work.
The final implementation would take information from many different sources. Make sure to click on the image to see the full-sized version. The stream management system is shown on the left, and one possible version of a “published” storystream is on the right. Here is a quick explanation of the stream management system. Pump The main feed will be a stream of tweets based on a Twitter search. Repeated messages will not show in the top pane, instead, they’ll show once in the bottom pane shows, along with the number of times they have been retweeted. Filter Holding bin The holding bin is where questionable tweets go for further investigation and verification when time permits. Storystream Storystream editor Thoughts?
Report: Social networks aren't working at work - Social Mar. The report surveyed office workers with Internet connections and found that, while 55% are social networks only 43% of those users access social nets at work. In addition, nearly 80% say they spend less than 30 minutes each day social networking. Although the report supports the fact that social networks are growing rapidly and have a huge reach, the fact that workers aren't logging on at work could impact how brands use social sites. With an 8 hour chunk of each day and the news that these workers are spending less than an hour with social nets, marketers may want to trim or heavily target the ad spend going into social networks. Added to that, an overwhelming 96% of respondents said social network efforts did not change their impression of a product brand; only about 11% of these workers are following the social feeds of a brand. The report also found these results: Insert Photographs & Clip-Art from Google Images into Micros.
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Twitter Comes of Age With Iranian Election - Advertising Age - D. Twitter Grows 1,444% Over Last Year; Time on Site Up 175% | Niel. Plugins add grunt to Google’s Quick Search Box | Hawk. While I was away, an interesting thing happened in the world of productivity apps for Mac. Nicholas Jitkoff, the developer of Quicksilver , was hired by Google to develop something similar for the company and its ever-expanding suite of apps. ( Ars Technica carries the full story.) The result is a sleek little app called “Google Quick Search Box”. It has nothing like the power and range of Quicksilver, but it does provide a way to launch applications quickly and to perform a few other time-saving tricks: As the name suggests, QSB is focussed on finding things. It doesn’t have the flexibility that Quicksilver enjoys, but it is good at searching. But it can also find a bookmark in Safari or Camino and launch it, find a song in iTunes and play it, find a contact and display the information or start a new email to that person, and so on.
A few weeks ago, extra plugins for the app began to appear, written by users, that expand its power and reach. Similar Posts: Search Gmail with Launcher apps. How women use blogs and social networking… A recent study Women in Social Media from BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, shows that the motivation of women using blogs and social networking differs. Blogs for women follow the purpose to find the right information while social networking platforms have the ‘mere’ sense to connect. The results state that US women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites. Blogs are seen especially valuable as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%), and opinion-sharing (55%).
Social networking sites are more used to share their strong affinity to connect and to entertain themselves. Women show much more interest and increase their activity in social media. The new study found that women spend less and less time engaging in traditional media activities like watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading magazines or newspapers. And for women blogs are becoming more and more important as a trendsetting and purchase sources of information. The Case Against Twitter, By The Numbers. Report: Social networking up 83 percent for U.S. | Digital Media. The explosion in social networking may be even greater than imagined. The time that people in the U.S. spend on social network sites is up 83 percent from a year ago, according to a report from market researcher Nielsen Online. Facebook enjoys the top spot among social networks, with people having spent a total of 13.9 billion minutes on the service in April of this year, 700 percent more than in April 2008, Nielsen said.
Minutes spent on Twitter soared a whopping 3,712 percent to almost 300 million, versus around 7.8 million from the same month a year ago. Former top dog MySpace watched its usage drop nearly one-third to around 4.9 billion minutes, from 7.2 billion in April 2008. MySpace still scored the number one spot for online video among the top 10, thanks to its users streaming more than 120 million videos from the site for April of this year.
But the report also offered a cautionary note: the social networking user can be fickle, quickly bouncing from one service to another. Consumers Blame Media for Weak Reporting Prior to Weak Economy | As the global economy appears to be bottoming out - at least in some parts of the world - questions still remain as to why so many people worldwide were blindsided by the severity of the crisis. Part of blame, it seems, may rest with the media. According to a recent 52-nation online survey conducted by The Nielsen Company, the general consensus among consumers across much of the world is that the media did a poor job informing the public about the issues leading up to the current financial crisis.
In every region, except Latin America, the percent of people who agreed or strongly agreed that media coverage was inadequate outnumbered those who disagreed -- by two-to-one. Q: The news media did not do a good job of informing me of issues that led up to the global financial crisis APIMEA - Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Southern Africa LA - Latin America NA - North America The two regions where consumers were most dissatisfied were Europe and North America. It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And Th. Viewpoint - Social Media: Mania or Mainstream? Swine Flu as Social Media Epidemic; CDC Tweets Calmly. Melissa Davies, Nielsen Online It has been impossible to escape the news about swine flu (or H1N1 virus) this week.
One of the most interesting developments this week has been watching the way people are using the Internet, and specifically social media, to connect with one another around this issue. As of yesterday, buzz volume about swine flu in the blogosphere was still on its meteoric climb, far surpassing discussion levels for the peanut butter/salmonella scare that happened earlier this year or, for a different reference point, recent pop singing sensation Susan Boyle. One measure of the extent of Internet engagement regarding swine flu is Wikipedia.
The site's page on swine influenza has been updated literally hundreds of times this week. Wikipedia created a separate page focused on the 2009 swine flu outbreak for current information - that page has been updated 119 times as of early on May 1. Swine flu is also gaining notice on the social networking site Facebook. Wrapping up on the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today Blog. Seven Must-Have Twitter Tools. Twitter is the canary in the coal mine of public opinion -- for celebrities, politicians, and, of course, corporations. When European discount carrier Ryanair lashed out at "lunatic bloggers" after a Web designer reported a glitch on the airline's site, its online reputation dipped as low as its fares. Conversely, Mars got a sweet treat when it posted Skittles-related tweets on its Web site, learning immediately how people felt about the candy. Twitter's explosion from microblogging curiosity to mass-media phenomenon has awakened a lot of companies to just how fast memes spread on the Internet today.
Make a mistake like Ryanair's -- or Johnson & Johnson's offensive Motrin ads last winter -- and the response is brutal. Get it right like shoe retailer Zappos and bask in the love. How can you know if your canary is singing or dead? TweetDeck. Scout Labs. BlogPulse. Vanno. CoTweet. TNS Cymfony. Building Your Brand… Or A Better Snuggie? Listen Up! | Charlie Buchwalter & David Wiesenfeld, Nielsen Online More and more researchers are waking up to the reality that mining the growing volume of conversations on blogs, message boards and social networking sites (i. e., "listening" to consumers) can provide timely, penetrating insights on a wide range of issues and brands.
A series of parallel studies we conducted with Procter & Gamble demonstrates that both surveys and listening are often required to tell the whole story. We looked at a number of brands and products: everything from orange juice, to razor blades, to the infomercial hit, the Snuggie. While surveys provide a sense of size or magnitude but are not ideal for capturing passion or intensity. One real-world case in which "listening" to consumers informed a course correction for Tropicana, was when they redesigned their Pure Premium packaging. Asking is More Left Brain... Taking Social Media Beyond the “Top 10 List” This is a guest post written by Vince Blackham.Follow him on Twitter With social media reaching near its peak, more and more people and businesses are realizing its importance.
Unfortunately for most, they get their ideas from a “bag-and-tag” blog post that claims it has the end-all result to reaching viral success. There’s especially been a lot of chatter on Twitter about people being so called “social media experts/gurus” and, in turn, there have been a bunch of blog posts to ridicule those type of people. One of my favorites on the subject was You’re Not a Social Media Expert, You Idiot (funny read w/ some good insight).
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