Twitter: shitloads of tweets

How many tweets did you send yesterday? None? Dozens? Together, we manage to send around 200 million tweets every day, Twitter has said, compared with two million a day in January 2009 and 65 million a day this time last year.

I can’t supply you with a figure for the percentage of those tweets yesterday that were about whether Johann Hari is the worst person ever/unfairly maligned victim of a Twitter witch hunt. Twitter has, however, made a list of the things that have most been concerning its members over 2011.

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The true impact of Guardian News & Media’s new digital-first strategy is revealed today today as the media group announces it is to axe the international print editions of the Guardian and Observer.

The axing of its international titles represents around 19,000 copies of the Guardian and 18,000 copies of the Observer. It gives a clear indication of the diminishing role of print and a sneak peak at what the future of the newspaper industry will look like. Read More »

Stephen Fry tweeting live from a lift

Stephen Fry who as we all know likes to tweet a bit, from lifts and elsewhere, and share his views with his 2.7 million Twitter chums, has tweeted his take on Google +, which most of us have had a play with now and the verdict is he is not a fan. Read More »

This post is provided by our partner the Future Foundation, the leading consumer futures business.

Social media is addictive: as soon as we engage with it, it starts dominating our communication habits. Indeed, as part of the quantitative and qualitative research which we undertake in 21 markets across the globe for our nVision Global service, we found that – in every single country – the majority of people using social media were doing so on a daily basis.

In the past, many commentators viewed this as a sign that it would emerge as a direct competitor to traditional media – and television in particular – in terms of time use. In reality though, our other activities have not been cannibalised; rather, our viewing habits have evolved to incorporate this new channel. Read More »

Love Wimbledon – but hate the grunts? The BBC has launched a new tool to silence the screams, roars and shrieks from Centre Court that listeners find so distracting. Read More »