Senior management changes could be afoot at Twitter. It is reported to be in talks with co-founder, Jack Dorsey (he who sent the first public tweet five years ago this week) about making a full-time return to the company in a senior role. Read More
Here’s some research that throws up a dilemma: consumers are more likely to be interested in brands that have good apps. But it’s really hard for app makers to make their apps ‘discoverable’.
GetJar: infographic
The research was carried out by an app store called GetJar, so is suitably pro-app and pro-Android app, to boot.
We were only talking to the BBC’s head of social media, Alex Gubbay, yesterday and today he has announced he’s quitting to join regional publisher Johnston Press.
Naturally enough, Gubbay, who commented on The Wall yesterday, announced his departure on Twitter. Read More
It is pretty amazing how fast the deals website Groupon has grown and how many people it now employs: a whopping 6,000.
The sheer size of the business is being cited as one of the reasons behind the sudden departure of president and COO Rob Solomon. Read More
Another day, another Top Agencies List. However, this time, instead of the agencies (ad, integrated, digital, social, search, PR, brand……) being ranked by turnover, billings or people, the list is ordered by those that are most influential in social media.
The term ‘influence’ has been debated at length lately, and one of the tools vying for the position of the definitive measure is Peer Index. The tool is similar to Klout and claims to help you “understand your social capital”. Read More
LinkedIn has said today it has now crossed the 100 million member mark – a nice milestone, and a good headline for a company that is probably going to be publically listed this year.
LinkedIn has released a whole load of statistics about its membership, showing that nearly 18 million people have troubled themselves to join some kind of professional group on LinkedIn and that 1.2 million posts are made by members each week. Quite impressive (especially if you’re under the impression that no one uses it and it’s all about Facebook and Twitter these days). Read More
Great coverage coming out of the BBC News website as the Libyan crises unfolds.
It is pulling in real-time updates from across the web and is being updated minute by minute. All good stuff. Not so its Twitter account which last saw an update 14 hours ago. Read More
A little while ago I asked the question will your next CV be an infographic? A lot of you liked that post as it was widely shared. If you haven’t already heard by now the answer is a big fat yes courtesy of Chris Spurlock.
A couple of weeks after I asked that question Spurlock saw his infographic resume (below) go viral after appearing on the Huffington Post’s college site, HuffPost College. The next step? Huffpo hired the journalism gradate to design infographics. Nice job. Read More
As part of its fifth birthday celebrations Twitter has launched a new website and video featuring some of its most famous and interesting users telling us what they use Twitter for.
The group of Twitter luminaries includes tennis star Serena Williams, Hilary Clinton, Piers Morgan, italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and rapper Snoop Dogg. Read More
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Inviting co-workers”. That was all the first tweet said. It is incredibly innocuous and no one could envisage the trail it would blaze across the world as Twitter was taken up in the hands of presidents and global celebrities, revolutionaries and the journalists who have told their stories.
Twitter, like just a few other key internet services such as Google, YouTube and Facebook to name three, has had a massive impact on our world and changed it fundamentally in the ways we interact with it and learn about it. Read More
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