Interactive Infographic Visualizes Twitter Ecosystem An expansive ecosystem has developed around Twitter since its 2006 launch. Digital analyst Brian Solis and data visualization powerhouse JESS3 have once again teamed up to release an infographic entitled "The Twitterverse" to depict, and make sense of, the vast galaxy of applications and services orbiting Twitter. NY Times Editor Claims Twitter Killing Conversation, While His Tweets Spawn Conversation There's been some buzz about NYTimes Editor Bill Keller's recent column, in which -- in true curmudgeon fashion -- he posits that Twitter and such are a problem because they are killing deep conversation: As a kind of masochistic experiment, the other day I tweeted "#TwitterMakesYouStupid. Discuss." It produced a few flashes of wit ("Give a little credit to our public schools!"); a couple of earnestly obvious points ("Depends who you follow"); some understandable speculation that my account had been hacked by a troll; a message from my wife ("I don't know if Twitter makes you stupid, but it's making you late for dinner. He then compares this to claims heard in yesteryear about how calculators meant people weren't good at doing math in their head any more, and how future generations with their brains and retinal displays jacked directly into the network would make people bad at remembering stuff.
34 Super Twitter Tips for Community Managers | oneforty This is an excerpt from our new ebook, 100 Inbound Marketing Content Ideas. For more tips like these for your blog and Facebook page, download the ebook here. Engaging your community of prospects on Twitter is an essential way to show a human face behind your brand and let your customers know you care about them. Here are 34 ideas and tips for you to use for your own Twitter community to keep them engaged and coming back for more. Responding to Followers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Twitter Tools 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Sharing Your Content 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Incorporate Other Platforms 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Create Original Tweets 29. 30. 31. 32. Follow Friday 33. 34.
Twitscoop - Stay on top of twitter! - Search twitter, twitter client, hot trends Over 380 Million Check-Ins: Foursquare's 2010 By the Numbers [Infographic] The location-based social network Foursquare had quite a 2010, growing by 3400%. And as the new year rolls over, the company has just registered its 6 millionth user. Foursquare has published an infographic representing a number of its achievements from what it describes as an "insane" year. It includes some strong figures for the company: 381,576,305 check-ins. These have come from every country in the world, including North Korea. Some people have questioned whether the notion of the "check in" will ever become mainstream, and certainly there can be a number of things that motivate us to do so - and could lure new users to location-based social networks. Click here to see the full-sized view.
Twitter Tweaks Emails Again, Highlights Connections If you still receive e-mail notifications every time a new Twitter user follows you, you might have seen a change in the messages, starting between 10 and 11 am Pacific time today. The new messages do a better job matching Twitter's new corporate color scheme and global approach, while eliminating some joint follower information common in the previous round of notices. This puts more emphasis on the individual and how they describe themselves, and reverses the social endorsement to those you already follow, more than their paying attention to you. Until this morning, new notifications highlighted the user's avatar, biography and simple service usage stats, like total tweets, as well as the following and follower metrics. The Older Notification Emails (from earlier this morning)
Nurph. Chatting in Twitter? Get a Room. A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media In honor of Mashable's five-year anniversary, this series is supported by IDG. Customers are talking about your brand and products — find out what they are saying with IDG Social Scout. Five years ago, YouTube was just getting started, MySpace was the most popular website in the U.S., and Facebook was still limited to college and high school students. Fast forward to today and the sites we use and the way we use them have shifted dramatically. How did we get to this point? The News Feed Brings It All Together In late 2006, Facebook introduced the news feed – a controversial concept at the time (incidentally, there are many parallels between it and Facebook’s most recent privacy issues) that has since become perhaps the most important and oft-imitated feature in social networking. It’s hard to remember life before the news feed, but it consisted mostly of visiting your friend’s profiles, making wall comments and perhaps maintaining a photo gallery. Social Networks Spread Their Wings
Entrepreneur’s tweet sparks fight with angels | Entrepreneurial – Connie Loizos is a contributor for PE Hub, a Thomson Reuters publication. This article originally appeared here. – Last month, entrepreneur Matt Mireles published a tweet, asking: “Why is TechStars NYC run by a non-entrepreneur?” The “non-entrepreneur” in question is 29-year-old David Tisch, whose grandfather built Loews into a Fortune 100 company that operates hotel chains, and whose family’s largess has helped bankroll numerous institutions, including the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Surely, Mireles isn’t the first to wonder whether someone with Tisch’s background can fully appreciate the challenges that struggling entrepreneurs face. Other comments were milder although somewhat defensive. That something legitimate should cause so much consternation and trash-talking is concerning. Critics might also resent the attention Mireles has managed to attract through contrarian stances on his blog, The Metamorphosis.
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10 Beautiful Social Media Infographics This series is supported by Ben & Jerry's Joe, Ben & Jerry's new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Infographics help communicate information in a digestible manner as they creatively present data in an understandable and engaging format. With social media growing at an ever increasing pace, there is now a wealth of data about how people interacting with one another on the web. Here are 10 infographics that prove as beautiful as they are interesting. 1. This is a global map of social web involvement which illustrates that hundreds of millions of web users are creating and sharing content every month. Interestingly, it reveals that despite the Twitter hype, microblogging is still not a mass social activity and is nowhere near the size and scale of blogging. 2. A compass is a device for orientating oneself and guiding physical direction. 3. The Web Trend Map plots the Internet’s leading names and domains onto the Tokyo Metro map. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.