Would you be surprised to learn that the top brand in this list of 15 on Twitter is…Twitter itself? No, of course not, but what’s interesting here is that outside of tech firms McDonalds is there at number five. It also scores very higly on Facebook.
The data comes from HootSuite and as well as the top brands it also includes topics, hashtags and holiday topics on Twitter in the past year. Read More
As we hear today that Google is to launch a business version of Google+ for brands, and is asking brands to hold off using the consumer version to create profiles, there’s also interesting blog post speculation that it will be Twitter and not Facebook that will be the biggest loser.
Steve Rubel agues that social media networks come from one of two lineages: either teens and twenty-somethings or geeks. Whatever happens they only catch on with one group and he says that is starting to happen with Google+. Read More
News Corporation is reported to be getting ready to make yet more job cuts at MySpace. Earlier this month we heard investors were in talks to buy majority stake in MySpace.
Today we learn that as many as 150 of the remaining 400 MySpace staff will get the chop.
If you are the social media news hound types, you must have lapped up some of the interesting snippets on the the social networking juggernauts. For the benefit of the readers, let me make an attempt to quickly round up a clutch of the more interesting ones in my view.
Linked In was recently assessed to be the most valuable network and having crossed the 100 million accounts milestone, is well on the way to an IPO as well. Read More
MySpace cofounder Chris DeWolfe has given a strong hint that he fancies another crack at the social network he set up and wants to buy it back from News Corp.
In an article in Businessweek he refuses to deny a bid and says only that he can not talk about it. Read More
Music used to be MySpace’s strong suit, but Adweek reports that some in the music industry are now abandoning the social network.It carries a report about music ticketing startup Ticketfly. A natural fit for the News Corporation (for now) owned social network, but the site has almost zero dealings with MySpace. Its founder says the music business is now all about Twitter and Facebook.
The story comes in the same week when social gaming firm Zynga is also reported to be pulling some of its games from MySpace as well. Read More
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
While the fate of MySpace remains undecided Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is preparing to take another crack at social media.
It is reported to be looking at building its own social-gaming business as it looks on at the success of companies like Farmville and Petville firm Zynga, which is now valued at around $10bn. A price tag that means it is way too pricey to acquire. Read More
A useful infographic which goes in to gender specific detail by the network. So we know that Facebook is more heavily weighted towards females than Twitter while Twitter has the largest division of wealthy users with 27% earning $75,000 or more. Check out the infographic for more stats and facts. Read More
How much is a tweet worth? Well, if you happen to be Hole singer Courtney Love a tweet is worth $430,000. Love has settled out of court after she made defamatory remarks about fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir.
Love made the comments on Twitter and MySpace accusing Simorangkir of theft and of having a criminal background. Read More
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