According to search volume research, Facebook was the number one searched phrase in 2010, with phrase variations of Facebook dominating the top 10 spots. Experian Marketing Services has analyzed the top 1000 search terms for 2010 and found something that might, or might not, surprise you. Based on their research, the word “Facebook” was the […]
Category: Social Media
Twitter use via mobile phones has increased dramatically during the second half of 2010, according to numbers released by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. The number of Twitter users sending updates via smartphones exploded during 2010, especially during the last half of the year. According to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, “40 percent of all tweets were […]
Six middle school girls were arrested after a Facebook invite went out called “Attack A Teacher Day”. In this day and age, threats to attack teachers are taken very seriously – even if the kids making the threats say that it was all just a big joke. That’s what happened when six middle school girls […]
A United States federal court has issued a subpoena to Twitter requesting for data relating to Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. Twitter received some unlikely news this week from a United States federal court. The feds are requesting information regarding Wikileaks, the Wikileaks Twitter feed, and the Twitter profile’s of top Wikileaks’ officials including Wikileaks founder […]
Yesterday, at around 12pm EST, Goldman Sachs shares (NYSE:GS) plummeted as the news about Facebook stock trading made it’s way into the mainstream. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been aggressively pitching as much as $1.5 billion in Facebook shares to wealthy investors, while simultaneously disclosing they might sell or hedge its own $375 million investment […]
Over the weekend, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an interview with the British business daily that back in 2008, Facebook made an offer to buy Twitter for $500 million in Facebook stock. Twitter respectfully decline this offer because, according to Stone, they wanted to become not just a popular site but a viable business, […]
Facebook status updates are more positive during the morning hours, and get more negative as the day progresses. You probably could’ve guessed that someone, somewhere out there, would be crunching the data and analyzing the trends of emotions as it relates to Facebook updates. Not something the average person thinks about to be sure, but […]