The guys over at The Sociable have been playing around with Twitter and doing some digging into statistics of Irish users. The initial data they’ve released is quite interesting as they’re showing the “top” Irish Twitter users as well as the “early adopters”. The most popular accounts seem to be a mix of celebrities and […]
The 2013 Social Media Awards will take place this May 30th in the Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin. Nominations opened this evening and are open until April 10th – so there’s plenty of time to get your nominations in. This year’s categories cover pretty much all areas of social media: Twitter Facebook blogs video mobile apps […]
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Pinterest has been contacting users of the social network who may have been affected by the ZenDesk security breach. The security breach affected 3 of Zendesk’s clients and Pinterest was one of them. The other two were Twitter and Tumblr. Text below: We recently learned that the vendor we use to answer support requests and […]
Hacking Twitter accounts happens all the time. Normally, however, the hacker does something overtly malicious. This time round, however, it’s just plain odd. The Burger King Twitter account was hacked and is currently spewing out content promoting McDonalds! But what makes it even more bizarre is that the account appears to be verified. Screenshot below: […]
The Pope’s announcement yesterday that he was resigning at the end of the month has led, inevitably, to quite a few amusing images doing the rounds. Here’s a few we liked mostly from Facebook and Twitter. If you know of any others or are the original source please let us know Of course there are […]
About.me was acquired by AOL when it launched. However two years later the company’s founders Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas have just announced that they’re independent again. The company is ambitious: Our commitment is to make about.me the web’s starting point for identity – we believe everyone will eventually have an about.me page they integrate […]
Vocus have produced a graphic showing what they class as the “5 types of social followers your business needs” The 5 classes of follower are: The early adopter The social sharer The born follower The popular powerhouse The basement dwelling hater Not only do they provide 5 simple classifications but they also provide a rationale […]
CBS will be airing Hawaii Five-O in the US this evening in a prime-time spot. That’s not newsworthy, but the TV channel has recorded three separate possible endings for the episode. Viewers of the show will be able to vote on which of three “viable” suspects is guilty in real-time via Twitter and the TV […]
Wendy Seltzer gives a fascinating, albeit quick, overview of 2012 from the Chilling Effects perspective. Chilling Effects aggregates takedown notices from copyright holders under the US DMCA as well as other laws in other jurisdictions. The numbers for 2012 are staggering. Over 53 million takedowns versus three million in 2011! The talk is just over […]
