The social media world is still buzzing over Yahoo!’s recent acquisition of Tumblr. What were the motivations behind the acquisition? Research from comScore poses one possible explanation: 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 →
Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Google: Read →
Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Tumblr and Spotify: Read →
Yesterday Tumblr hit a significant milestone — the site now hosts over 100 million blogs, huge growth from just 50 million blogs in April of 2012. The site’s blogs contain around 44.6 billion posts; there were 82.6 million posts to the site yesterday alone. Read →
Tumblr is more popular than Facebook among young social media users, according to a recent survey by Posterous co-founder Gary Tan. Out of an impressive field of social sites – including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat – Tumblr was the favorite social network for teens and young adults. Read →
What social media stats got the most attention in the last year? According to our traffic-counting elves, here are the top social media statistics we published in the last year: Read →
Tumblr is now “pushing more than 20 billion page views a month” said CEO David Karp at GigaOM’s Roadmap 2012 conference. With over 80 million blogs and tens of millions of users, the platform has grown popular for sharing pictures, stories and memes without losing its “intimate, community feel.” Read →
A new compilation of stats from the 2012 Olympic Games reveals that 60% of visits to the official London 2012 Games website and apps came from mobile devices. And both the BBC and NBC also had strong Olympic mobile showings: one-third of BBC web visits and one-tenth of video streams were from mobile, while 16% of NBC web users and 45% of NBC video requests came from mobile (PaidContent).
The Games organizers also used a remarkable array of platforms, strategies and applications to drive fan engagement around the games. Read →
Gatwick Airport has been using Twitter to keep passengers informed with realtime updates during disruptive weather and flight delays, as well as updates on everyday airport activity. This week, the airport’s Twitter account, @gatwick_airport, became the first UK airport to be recognized by Twitter as a verified account, receiving, as a spokesperson put it, “Twitter’s ‘blue tick’ of authority.” Read →
