One year ago, CNET hired Nathan Bransford as social media manager to revitalize the brand’s social media efforts. The result of his one-man endeavor? A 6X increase in audience on Twitter and Facebook. CNET increased its Facebook likes from 69,000 to 428,000 (up 520%), while its Twitter followers grew from 24,000 to 105,000 (a 338% gain). Here’s how he did it. Read →
In a New York Times article, the company revealed that Twitter now has 175 million registered users, which is up from 145 million users in September. That means the startup added around 30 million users in just under 2 months and since introducing the new Twitter.com design. It also means that the rate of growth has [...] Read →
Royal Pingdom has calculated that Twitter’s activity–as measured by the number of tweets–has increased by 33% in the last 3 months. Twitter processed a total of 2.64 billion tweets in the month of August, which comes to an average of 85 million every day. Read →
TechCrunch reports that Foursquare hit the three million user mark some time in the last few days. The location-based social network reached the 2 million user mark in July. It took a year to reach one million; 3 months to hit 2 million, and 6 weeks to hit 3 million. Foursquare’s co-founder Dennis Crowley recently [...] Read →
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