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Category Archives: Twitter
1 Year Anniversary for Foursquare
March 12, 2010
Location-based services have been a popular topic this week, as Twitter enabled geo-location features and Facebook announced the launch of a new location-based feature in April. Another location-based social network, Foursquare, marked their one year anniversary of their launch yesterday.... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:21 PM
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In Categories Facebook | Mobile | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
Holiday shopping with social networks
December 01, 2009
Last week, our custom category of 155 Social Networking websites received just over 10% of all US Internet visits. With such a large audience, marketers have flocked to websites like Facebook and Twitter to reach out to consumers during the... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 11:22 PM
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In Categories Black Friday | Cyber Monday | Facebook | Holiday | Social Media | Social Networking | Thanksgiving | Twitter | US
Twittering the Iran Election
June 23, 2009
Following the elections that took place in Iran on June 12, Twitter has become one of the most popular mediums for distributing information about the protests. Daily visits to Twitter.com (excludes mobile & desktop applications) increased 13% on June 12th... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:52 PM
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In Categories Twitter | YouTube
Twitter Switches Up Shorter URLs
May 06, 2009
Websites that shorten URLs have become a hot category over the past few weeks, mostly due to the increasing popularity of Twitter and their use to fit URLs in tweets without going over the 140 character limit. One website, TinyURL... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:23 PM
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Top Searches on Twitter Search
April 07, 2009
What do people search for on Twitter? We collected search terms that we took place within Twitter’s search engine to identify the topics that are being searched most often on Twitter for the week ending March 21, 2009. Searches for... Continue reading...
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In Categories Search Engines | Twitter
Twitter catches up to Digg
January 20, 2009
Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who like to update their daily thoughts and activities, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets. Last week, the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg... Continue reading...
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In Categories Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
