Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Social media has never been bigger, with hundreds of millions of people checking Facebook, Tweeting, posting and watching videos and sharing their lives on the web. Videoinfographcs have released a new video infographic with the latest statistics, facts and figures about social media that were released in 2011.

Tampa’s Foursquare users are going toe-to-toe with real-life Mayor Bob Buckhorn. They are competing for the “mayor” title on the Web service. The competition started when Buckhorn initiated his own Foursquare account to engage citizens on his whereabouts in their city.

We can’t do much to about the weather but most of us like to talk about it anyway. So, why not organize this weather information sharing? I took a look at the free Weddar for iPhone and Android earlier this year and came away unimpressed because, as I wrote earlier, While a crowd sourced social [...]

The information answers questions like what items people were most excited about purchasing, where they plan to make most their purchases and whether they were shopping for themselves or someone else.

Klout had been holding fire for a specific level of increase on the social network platform in order to incorporate it into its calculations.

NASA has evolved as a federal agency that is exceedingly active on social media sites. Of late, the space agency took another innovative move and became the first federal agency to join Google Plus. The agency had one of the first websites on the Internet and was one of the first accounts on Twitter in 2007 [...]

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing [...]

This infographic shows how the social media comments on Facebook, Twitter and other sites fluctuated during the send-off episode.

Tyson’s session was quite impressive because he generated over 10,000 comments. Social Times grabbed a few to post here, so you can get an idea of how the session was unconventional but engaging.

Online music library platform Grooveshark recently introduced a complete redesign of its site.  The site now places a heavy emphasis on social media sharing and community features that complement tighter integrations with third-party social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Reddit.