In August, Twitter, the four-year-old micro-blogging service flew past MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking service in the world, according to new data from comScore Inc. Twitter recorded almost 96 million unique visitors in August, up 76% from August 2009, comScore said. During the same period of time, MySpace dropped 17% during the same period, to 95 million unique visitors in August. (more…)
A recent Denver Post article touches on a subject I've been grappling with for several years. It boggles my mind that people think an e-mail, text or tweet has tone. It's true. What we write and post in some fashion on the Internet, has a tone. Once we make peace with this concept it's important to consider this fact, every time we communicate with anyone. By now, I hope you've realized the Internet, and social media, is here and a force to be reckoned with. The article provides some good tips for better communication. (more…)
Take four minutes out of your day to have a look at this video describing the power of social media. This is why we formed The Friedman Group, but more importantly, it's why we need to stop thinking social media is a fad. It's time we took social media seriously. It's time we took advantage of all it has to offer, while recognizing there are things we need to be aware of, like guarding our privacy. Watch the video, then leave a comment letting me know your initial reaction to what you saw. (more…)
There are hundreds of desktop and mobile applications competing for just 22% of the Twitter market, as 78% of users use Twitter.com to read and send their tweets. The competition for your desktop has been fierce. Now competitors like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop 2 will have to fight harder to attract new users. (more…)
The new Twitter.com interface looks a lot like the Twitter iPad app, just optimized for the web. The iPad app allows Twitter users to browse tweets in a timeline with links, videos, profiles and other content opening up in new panes to the right of the timeline. The new Twitter.com two-pane interface brings this functionality to the internet. The new design contains mini profiles, 16 new media partnerships for viewing embedded photos and videos, and a details pane providing additional information around a specific tweet. (more…)
Twitter is rolling out a new web interface. Most people will be seeing a preview roll out over the next several weeks. It appears the plan is to integrate multimedia into the Twitter stream as part of a totally redesigned interface. (more…)
