Daily Archives: 29 March, 2011

Advertisers abandon Myspace as rumours of sale to Vevo emerge

MySpace: woes continue

Following ComScore’s dismal reports on Myspace losing 10 million users over a month, it is now being reported that advertisers are reluctant to use MySpace just as News Corp holds talks with Vevo over the possibility of disposing of the site. Read More »

29 social networks that get at least 1m visitors a day [infographic]

Just a reminder how much traffic there is to go around. While Facebook might dominate (by numerous country miles) Orkut is apparently still hanging in there. Qzone with 37 million comes up as the biggest social network in China.

Twitter is fourth placed in this table sourced from Google as of February 2011 with Russian Facebook like site Odnoklassni.ru in fifth ahead of LinkedIn. What would be interesting to know is how many of us are really active on multiple networks? Enjoy. Read More »

Is ‘Twitter Elite’ the next buzzword in marketing?

If you’re used to tailoring your marketing campaigns to reach that category of people dubbed the opinion leader, you might have a new buzzword (buzzphrase?) to learn: Twitter Elite.

Elites: survey names top five in each category

Why? Because a new academic survey claims that a tiny proportion of Twitter’s users — roughly 20,000 individuals — take up about 50% of Twitter’s attention.

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