The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]
The reactions and memes on Twitter (and elsewhere) to Katie Taylor’s win this afternoon are.. well see for yourself: Film star Samuel L Jackson: All of IRELAND Raise A Pint for Katie Taylor’s Gold Medal Russian beatdown!! — Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) August 9, 2012 Pop duo Jedward: Katie Taylor has the coolest Bling Now […]
A 16 year old in the US who has cerebral palsy may have inadvertently sparked a massive social media campaign targetting Nike. The letter Matthew Walzer posted on his blog a couple of days ago was picked up by NiceKicks, who have not only blogged about it and encouraged other people to share the letter, […]
One of the issues that Facebook has been grappling with is two fold. On the one hand their mobile traffic has been growing, in line with many popular sites. But while the traffic on mobile devices and overall mobile usage might be on the increase the social network has been having issues turning that usage […]
So what’s in the numbers. We’re constantly hearing about people buying fake followers on most of the social networks, you can head on over to the likes of http://fiverr.com/ and for you guessed it a fiver you’ll end up with someone getting you a load of new followers. Of course if you don’t know any […]
One of the issues for business users of Google’s social network, Google+, was the lack of support for 3rd party software tools and services to help business (and users) manage their updates. Within the last couple of days Google has announced that their API for Google+ is being opened up: More third party tools to […]
The UK’s advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has banned a twitter campaign from Nike. The complaint centred around tweets from footballers Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere. The ASA understood that, as part of their sponsorship deal with Nike, the footballers were required to take part in marketing activities and that both were asked […]
Conn and I talked about Memolane on the podcast this week Here’s their video explaining what the service does: [youtube]http://youtu.be/2MMiMTN9swY[/youtube]
News emerged last night that social media giant Facebook was to acquire Instagram. What made the story particularly newsworthy was the amount of money involved – $1 billion So how is Instagram worth $1 billion? I don’t know, but as several people pointed out last night, there will be plenty of articles to help us […]
