This Monday marked YouTube's 8th birthday. To celebrate, the company revealed some big stats - and applauded its viewers - in a blog post: Read More
Here's your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr: Read More
Last week Vine celebrated its 100-day birthday, and new research from Unruly lays out the top metrics for the mobile video app, showing strong engagement for Twitter's video platform. Check out the highlights here: Read More
A year-long study has identified the geographic origins of hate speech on Twitter in the U.S. Using the Google Maps API, the research team shows the distribution of hate speech on Twitter across the country via an interactive map. Read More
A new report from Global Web Index found a rise in active engagement across all social platforms worldwide, with Twitter experiencing the fastest growth. Read More
Twitter’s short video app, Vine, is rapidly becoming popular with brands. Dunkin’ Donuts is the latest major brand to use Vine for a marketing campaign, encouraging fans to participate in the “Running on #IceDD” contest by posting their own six-second Vine videos. Read →
This Monday marked YouTube’s 8th birthday. To celebrate, the company revealed some big stats – and applauded its viewers – in a blog post: Read →
Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr: Read →
A new report from Global Web Index found a rise in active engagement across all social platforms worldwide, with Twitter experiencing the fastest growth. Read →
New research from comScore shows that UK smartphone owners ages 18-24 have a higher recall of mobile advertising, at 38% vs. 26.5% of smartphone users overall. This age group is also significantly more likely to see in-game ads on mobile, click on social networking advertisements and to receive coupons or deals through social networking. Read →
Last week Vine celebrated its 100-day birthday, and new research from Unruly lays out the top metrics for the mobile video app, showing strong engagement for Twitter’s video platform. Check out the highlights here: Read →
Social media users with a high Klout score have a new perk available: those with a score of 55 and above can qualify for a one-day pass to American Airlines’ Admirals Club in 40 different airports. This is one of the latest additions to Klout’s “perks” program, introduced back in 2010, which offers rewards to those with high Klout scores and/or social “influence” in a particular area. Read →
A team of researchers led by Humboldt State University Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) have released the results of a year-long study identifying the geographic origins of hate speech on Twitter in the U.S. Using the Google Maps API, the team has overlaid the data with a county-level analysis to show the distribution of hate speech on Twitter across the country via an interactive map. Read →
Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and Foursquare: Read →
New estimates from eMarketer show that Facebook’s worldwide user base is seeing the biggest expansion in India, Brazil and Russia, as well as the Middle East and Africa. Facebook will top one billion users worldwide in 2013, and reach 1.26 billion in 2014. Read →
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