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Social Media Round-up of the Week – 29 July

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Welcome back to our weekly instalment of what’s hot in the world of social media. In case you missed what happened over the past week, here’s a run-down of our top five: Facebook rel 1

1. Twitter introduced its most prominent advertising yet on Thursday by adding “promoted tweets” to users’ main timelines, a gambit aimed at generating greater revenues but that risks provoking members’ anger. Users will see tweets from companies and organisations that they follow appear near the top of the central stream of 140-character messages when they log in, even if they were posted hours or days previously.

2. A month since launch, a new report from Experian Hitwise shows that Google+ has hit a mid-summer traffic slump. According to Bloomberg, the report shows that the number of unique visitors to the site have been falling, as has individual time spend on the site. Google+ is making several tweaks to its social network regarding businesses and public figures, particularly after a small debacle over its policy requiring a user’s real name.

3. In an effort to keep pace with Google+ and its business unit, Facebook has announced a special unit to help businesses advertise with Facebook as well as maintain a presence on the social networking giant.

4. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ranked Number 1 in a list of the top 100 most powerful people in the media. The MediaGuardian100, which is published annually by British newspaper The Guardian, is compiled based on candidates’ cultural influence, economic clout and political power. Of Zuckerberg’s position, The Guardian writes: “Zuckerberg has been transformed from an awkward and unpromising geek into the world’s richest and most famous twentysomething, listened to by world leaders.”

5. Our latest infographic (right) shows how Facebook effects relationships.

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Social Media Round-up of the Week – 1 July

Friday, July 1st, 2011

Welcome back to our weekly instalment of what’s hot in the world of social media. In case you missed what happened over the past week, here’s a run-down of our top five: Tech bubble

1. Twitter on Thursday revealed that it is now handling 200 million tweets per day. That’s up from 2 million tweets per day in January 2009 and 65 million per day in June 2010, Twitter said in a blog post. “For perspective, every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10 million-page book in Tweets or 8,163 copies of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” the company wrote. “Reading this much text would take more than 31 years and stacking this many copies of War and Peace would reach the height of about 1,470 feet, nearly the ground-to-roof height of Taiwan’s Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world.”

2. Music superstar and actor Justin Timberlake has signed on as a new partial owner of MySpace, along with Specific Media, which bought the service from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Timberlake will play a significant role in the reboot of the website, developing a strategy for a new creative direction for MySpace.

3. It has only been around for a matter of days but new social networking platform Google+ has already run into a privacy issue. Google+ has a feature that lets you reshare what someone posts. By letting you reshare, the post goes beyond the circle or circles it was intended to be seen by. This loophole was first spotted by the Financial Times.

4. Ever wondered why some people get so many retweets and their content on Twitter goes further? Well, don’t say we never give you hints and tips; here’s a five point guide, courtesy of New Scientist on how to increase your retweets and spread your content far and wide.

5. There has been widespread speculation about whether we’re entering the second dot.com bubble. Our infographic (right) should give a bit more context.

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Social Media Round-up of the Week – 18 April

Monday, April 18th, 2011

Welcome back to our weekly instalment of what’s hot in the world of social media. In case you missed what happened over the past week, here’s a run-down of our top five:

1. Presidential candidates for the 2012 elections in the US have embraced social media more than ever. Republican Tim Pawlenty disclosed his 2012 presidential aspirations on Facebook. Rival Mitt Romney did it with a tweet. President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a digital video emailed to the 13  million online backers who helped power his historic campaign in 2008.

Twitter graphic 22. Facebook is looking to cash in on user data.  Profiles, status updates and messages all include masses of voluntarily provided information. The social media site is using it to help advertisers find exactly who they want to reach. Privacy watchdogs are said to be concerned about this latest development.

3. Comedian Stephen Fry told a charity benefit concert than he would go to prison rather than allow the verdict to stand in Paul Chambers ‘Twitter joke’ appeal. Paul Chambers famously tweeted “—-! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”

4. The FT reports that governments all over the world are increasingly restricting internet freedoms as penetration spreads and activists turn to the still-evolving medium, according to a comprehensive analysis of practices in 37 nations.The report, which is released today, found that some countries imposed their first political controls on internet content in the past two years, while those that had already restricted access redoubled their efforts with new tools and bureaucracies.

5. A great infographic (above) showing how journalists on twitter all follow one another.

Don’t forget – if you see anything that really impresses you, why not let us know by emailing on social@umpf.co.uk and perhaps your suggestion will make the cut next week.

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