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 →
Google+ has now become the second largest global social network, according to GlobalWebIndex. With 343 million active users as of December 2012, it is second only to Facebook in global dominance – though Facebook still has double the number of active users, with nearly 700 million. Read →
“Today Google+ is the fastest-growing network thingy ever” wrote Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra in a blog post late last week. Out of the 500 million users that have signed up for Google+, 235 million are “active across Google” (aka +1′ing apps in Google Play, hanging out in Gmail, connecting with friends in Search), and 135 million are active just in the Google+ stream. Read →
This week, Google Senior Vice President, Engineering Vic Gundotra announced that 400 million Google users have now upgraded to Google+. Of those, 100 million are “monthly active users” on Google+. In other words, one-fourth of users who make the upgrade become a regular user of the service. Read →
The Digital IQ Index®: Magazines report released in June by think tank L2 is a study that ranks magazine brands in 11 categories according to their “competence” in adapting to “the increasingly digital landscape.” L2 recently posted details that zero in on the largest magazine communities on Google Plus. Even though many of the brands’ Google Plus communities are larger than their Facebook communities, they’re getting less engagement from Google Plus communities. It appears that this may be simply that the brands are not reaching out as much. Read →
Time magazine has become one of the most popular news brands on Google+, with over 1.2 million users adding Time to their circles on the social network. Cathy Sharick, managing editor of Time.com, shared some tips for achieving success on Google+, as reported by Journalism.co.uk. Read →
Facebook is winning the social media wars. But Google isn’t worried. Here’s why. Read →
An April 11th post on Google’s official blog by Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Google, announced that 170 million people have upgraded to Google+. This comes less than a week after Google CEO Larry Page confirmed that the social network now has 100 million active users (those who log on at least once per month) in a post on Google’s Investor Relations blog. Read →
Google+ brand pages were introduced on November 7, and within 10 days a majority – 61% – of the top 100 brands worldwide had a presence on Google+. However, so far these top 100 brand pages on Google+ have accrued only 147,000 followers, with the Google+brand page responsible for 65,000 of that total. How does this compare to Facebook, and what is the outlook for brands on Google+? Read →
A recent study by UMass at Dartmouth examined the use of blogs, Twitter and Facebook among the 2011 Fortune 500 companies, revealing that there has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs, Facebook and Twitter in the last year. Read →
