Posted on July 4, 2009, 10:42 am, by Alex Holmes, under
Social Media.
Now that Twitter shows a user’s location in another user’s follower list, it can be much easier to find new people to follow.
Interested in finding someone interested in travel who lives in California? Now you can just go to the Followers Page for a Large Travel Tweeter and quickly select to follow any user [...]
Techcrunch reports that nearly 10% of their visitors came in through Twitter in the last 30 days. This is more than any other social bookmarking site, most notably Digg and TechMeMe, and is only surpassed by the almighty Google as the top referral source.
Posted on April 21, 2009, 11:12 am, by Alex Holmes, under
Social Media.
I’ve copied the latest Wikipedia geo stats below. Its interesting that there is not a direct correlation between the population of a country and how active that country is on Wikipedia. Other variables to account: weather, literacy, availability of computers, lack of nightlife (kidding on the last one)
I just sat through a [...]
Posted on April 2, 2009, 4:14 pm, by Alex Holmes, under
Social Media.
We all knew it was coming. We all blogged it, tweeted it, and left comments on other people’s blogs regarding it. Twitter is turning into a search and discovery engine before our eyes.
Just today, they announced and implemented (without any large whales getting in the way) , a search box, search trends, and search results, [...]