The latest Ipsos MRBI social media survey results were released earlier today. Facebook continues to reign with 60% of Irish people having an account. 72% of them use Facebook every single day, while only 37% of Twitter users are active on a daily basis. Dating app Tinder is apparently being used by 5% of Irish […]
61% of Irish people aged 15 and over have a Facebook account: more than twice the number on Twitter, its nearest rival at 29%. That’s according to the latest Ipsos MRBI Social Networking Quarterly Survey published today. Twitter membership is slightly ahead of LinkedIn and Google+, which both stand at 24%. However, Facebook is streets ahead in another important metric, […]
Nominations opened today for the 2014 edition of the Social Media Awards. As in previous years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads Twitter categories Best Business […]
While the announced acquisition price for WhatsApp is significant (ok, let’s just say “huge”), how does it compare to other tech industry acquisitions? Here’s a nice chart from Statista that puts it in context
Luxury brand Cartier released this animated advert a few weeks ago. It’s impressive: The brand had released “teasers” via their Instagram account in the run up to the ad’s debut, though as one industry commentator noted, their account isn’t that active
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]
Users of Twitter on the Web and its mobile clients, discovered yesterday that previews of media shared with Twitter and Vine are showing up inline as you scroll through your stream. This only works with Twitter’s own media sharing tools, not, for example, with Instagram. Twitter hopes it will make the experience more engaging – […]
Tapastreet is a brand new startup. Fresh from the Facebook hackathon on Wednesday, they came to TBEX knowing that travel bloggers would be excited to see their product. The thing about social media is that it wants to be discovered. We tag our content – hashtags, user tags, pingbacks – because we want to make […]
Grumpy Cat is an internet sensation and now you can bring her to your mobile device with GrumpyBomb. The app, which is 100% free, lets you easily add Grumpy Cat to your existing iPhone photos, or take a new one and add her and an appropriate caption. The icons are cartoonish and playful and […]
Well Facebook was a bit of a flutter yesterday, at least in my stream, with people wondering why there were so many hash tags around. I assumed people were cross-posting from twitter to facebook, but no it’s not that. Facebook have gone the way of Twitter and Instagram and quite possibly numerous other services and […]
