“Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the…Shorty Awards”

The New York Times Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: awards, tweet, Twitter, users

According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users were spending just over three hours on social networking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Blog, Facebook, instant messaging, online, site, social media, social network, Twitter, users

Facebook saw the number of visitors more than double in November 2009 compared to the same month in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, comScore, Facebook, MySpace, social network, Twitter, visitors

It was a big year for technology: Twitter and Facebook’s popularity exploded, while new smartphones, e-readers and a host of other gadgets cropped up to compete for our plugged-in affection. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, account, attack, Blog, company, computer, Conficker, e-mail, Facebook, fails, Gmail, Google, Google Wave, hacker, information, internet, iPhone, iPod, LiveJournal, Mashable, Media, member, Microsoft, online, service, site, smartphone, social media, TechCrunch, technology, Twitter, users, Web, worldwide, Zune

With All the Talk of CPMs Going to Zero, Here’s a Survey of Who’s Commanding Top Dollar Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: advertisers, CPMs, Facebook, Media, network, Online ad, rate, site, Twitter, Web

Eat your heart out H1N1, gatecrashers and Aretha’s hat. According to Global Language Monitor — an algorithms company who used their Predictive Quantities Indicator to find their results — “Twitter” is the most-used word of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: 2009, Barack Obama, Media, social network, Twitter, word