Yahoo! will integrate Twitter into its news frontpage, continuing its battle to be relevant in the social age. Certain tweets will now be included amongst the aggregated news headlines, although it’s not yet clear how they will be selected.
It is somewhat ironic that Yahoo! chief exec Marissa Mayer is bringing Twitter into the fold, as her previous employer, Google, had a major fall out with it.
It’s been a good few days for YouTube sensations. After Commander Hadfield was a Space Oddity, the latest thing to go viral across the web is a video of Abercrombie and Fitch clothing being given to homeless people in the US.
A&F are notorious for throwing away damaged items, only hiring hotties, and trying to make sure that it’s clothing doesn’t end up in thrift stores.It tries to do everything it can to make sure the clothing doesn’t end up in the ‘wrong’ hands, and YouTuber Greg Karber decided to take action.
A new Twitter analysis tool has been launched in the UK to analyse a users profile.
However, instead of look at retweets, Klout or reach, it analysis how sexist your retweeting is!
The tool is called Tweet-Q, and was launched in Sweden as year ago. It has now been launched in the UK to coincide with the launch of Joan Smith’s book ‘The Public Woman’ that look at contemporary gender roles and inequality. Read more »
There is only one subject dominating social media conversations today – the retirement of Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who has led the club for over a quarter of a century.
Since joining Manchester United 26 years ago, Ferguson has won 38 trophy’s including 17 of the club’s 20 league title’s, and 2 champions league titles, including one as part of their famous treble winning season in 1999.
The news broke first on Twitter and then it lit up with a shade of red as the tweets began to flow. Read more »
Good news for those working in the digital and technology sectors.
Recruitment firm Propel have found that over the last four years salaries in the sector have grown more than twice as fast as the UK national average. Read more »
Facebook has bought Parse, the mobile-backend-as-a-service startup which has just raised $7m in funding, in what Techcrunch believes is an $85mdeal.
Parse is two years old, and is the brainchild of ex Google staff and Y Combinator graduates who decided to build a set of back-end tools that mobile developers could use, and allows developers to build cross-platform apps for iOS and Android.
Associated Press had its Twitter account hacked yesterday, and inaccurate tweets posted in its name caused panic and financial turmoil.
The tweets that came from the verified account declared that there had been two explosions in the White House, and that President Barack Obama had been injured.
New research has look into the level of penetration of social networks across various countries and continents, revealing those in which the users are most engaged and listening to brands.
Not surprisingly, North Americans lead the way. Citing the Global Web Index, Synthesio found that in both the US and Canada the level of active social media users within the population was as high as 50%. Read more »
Spotify has rolled out the ‘follow’ button globally, which it first announced in December, further adding to its reputation as the Twitter for music.
The updated music app is now fantastically addictive, with users getting continuing suggestions and a feeds of songs and artists.
It’s the ongoing question with social media – how do you make a big network earn money and how do you regulate celebrities bypassing regulations to promote products?
Nowhere is this issue more pertinent right now than on Facebook’s $1bn acquisition Instagram, which still does not feature advertising anywhere on the network.
In fact, the problem is even greater than that, as celebrities and brands seek to use the popular platform for their own ad deals, and cut out the Facebook middleman. Read more »
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