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Israel Is The Worldwide Leader in Social Network Use
There are many things come to mind when you think of Israel, but “social media addiction” is definitely not one of them… at least not until recently. Much to everyone’s surprise, including mine, a new report released by comScore revealed that Internet users in the Middle Eastern country are the world’s biggest users of social...
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The State of Social Media in Small Business
While small businesses use social media personally and believe it affects their businesses, the majority are still reluctant to use the new networks to build their companies. Additionally, most don’t plan on investing on social media until they understand the practices and payoffs. That’s the headline finding in a new study recently released by the...
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1 in 6 Job Seekers Found Their Current Job via Social Media
A recent survey conducted by Jobvite suggests about 1 of 6 Americans found their most recent job via social media. In case you’re wondering, that amounts to around 22 million Americans. The fact that so many people found their last job on an actual social media site nowadays can’t be very surprising, especially since LinkedIn...
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Facebook’s Relationship with Its Fans: It’s Complicated
Facebook has made big changes. Again. And the News Feeds yesterday were, unsurprisingly, bursting with complaints as many of the social-networking site’s 750 million users began noticing the adjustments. “This is absolutely the worst of the many wrong-headed ‘improvements’ you have made, and that’s quite a feat. I think Facebook’s usefulness to me has now been outstripped...
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Experts Get More Followers Than Average Twitter Users
“Never identify yourself as an expert” is an easy social media myth to bust. Labeling yourself as an authority might make you sound pretentious, but a research done by HubSpot’s social media scientist Dan Zarrella clearly shows that telling your Twitter audience why they should listen to you absolutely works to increase your reach. Twitter bio...
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U.K. Government Weighing The Options to Block Social Media
As a mean to quell riots, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the authorities to consider blocking social-networking websites and messaging services during the country’s worst anarchism since the 1980s. Cameron said that the government – working together with police, the intelligence services and companies – should look at “whether it would be right to stop...
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Justin Bieber: The New Instagram Superstar
Pop sensation Justin Bieber has joined Instagram and tweeted out his first picture to his 11 million+ followers. The result? Quite phenomenal. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom revealed that in the first hour after tweeting the pic, Bieber was gaining about 50 followers a minute and getting one comment every 10 seconds or so. All thanks to...
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Women’s World Cup Final Sets A New Tweet Per Second Record
The final match between Japan and the United States at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Frankfurt, Germany, set a new record for number of tweets sent per second on Sunday. After the Japan women’s football team beat America in penalties, Twitter announced that the game scored a new record with 7,196 Tweets per second. The Paraguay vs. Brazil...
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Use Twitter to Help You Grow Your Business
For many entrepreneurs, Twitter has proven to be a useful social tool they can use to make the most of their business. But sadly, most small business owners still have no idea about how to use the micro-blogging service effectively. The following are a few tips for entrepreneurs to make their tweets more engaging and to get...
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Zaarly: Anything You Want From People Nearby
Former VP of Entrepreneurship for the Kauffman Foundation, Bo Fishback, has certainly seen a lot of startups labeled "the next big thing," but perhaps none of them were predicted to be as huge as Zaarly.
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Bre.ad Shifts The Way Shortened Links Are Shared
When somebody clicks on a Bre.ad link, he or she isn't immediately taken to the webpage it directs to. Instead, it takes that person to a web page created by the person who originally shortened the link.