A new report from eMarketer looks at social network usage in Canada. Canada boasts some of the highest internet penetration and social networking usage rates in the world. Social network users view social media as their online home—a hub for communication, entertainment and information. The report also states that in some cases Canadians are adopting [...]
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Social Networks Ranked for Canada
November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Social network, Stats, Uncategorized
Twitter Milestone: 10 Billionth Tweet
March 4th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Community, Social Media, Social network
Just a few days short of its 4th birthday, Twitter marked a milestone of 10 billion tweets at approximately 16:54:11 Pacific Time on Thursday, March 4, 2010. That makes approximately 6,925,208 tweets for each of the 1,444 days since Twitter was founded on March 21, 2006. Though, we know that most of those tweets have [...]
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Twitter Hatchlings and History
May 4th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Social Media, Social network, Technology
Ever wonder about the early days of Twitter? Long before @Oprah and @aplusk, many social media and technology early adopters hopped on board helping to spur the service forward. If you’ve ever wanted to do an historical study of Twitter, then I’ve got three services that will give you a snapshot of what it was [...]
Tags: Bob Goyetche·Chris Brogan·Jay Moonah·Jim Long·Julien Smith·Laura Fitton·Oprah·Twitter·Twitter Apps
New Trending and Search Features Coming on Twitter
March 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Social Media, Social network
(Originally published on TouchBase, March 9, 2009.) Brian Chappell at Ignite Social Media in North Carolina was one of the recently selected users given access to test Twitter’s new search and trending features. Twitter announced on their blog that a random subset of users would be selected while they tested the features. But as of [...]
