Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Twitter Now Shows Location in Follower Lists

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 [...]

You Can Actually Get Traffic from Twitter

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.

The Most Popular Languages on Wikipedia

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 [...]

Twitter Discovery is Almost Here

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, [...]