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Social Media Round-up of the Week – 31 May

Tuesday, May 31st, 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 six: Foursquare badges 1

1. A new study commissioned by National Family Week has revealed the amount of technological effort parents expend keeping track of their children. Apparently an average parent sends 600 texts a year in an effort to find out just where their children are and also uses Facebook to try to track them down. The research also showed that they send 312 emails on average per year.

2. Leo Messi attracted a further 100,000 fans to his Facebook page following FC Barca’s win over Manchester United in Saturday’s UEFA Champions League Final.  The ‘world’s best player’ is no stranger to breaking records on Facebook when he gained seven million new fans seven hours after opening his Facebook account on April 6.

3. Twitter has been forced to hand over the details of users of its website in a landmark legal ruling. The case was brought by a council seeking to uncover the identity of a blogger who criticised officials and councillors. South Tyneside Council went to the U.S. courts to force Twitter to reveal the person behind the ‘Mr Monkey’ account.

4. Twitter is to launch its own photo-sharing service to compete with existing services such as Twitpic, Yfrog, Instagram and Flickr, according to multiple sources. The announcement is expected this week at the D9 conference in California, where the company’s chief executive Dick Costolo will be speaking on Wednesday. The service may be provided via the website twimg.com, which Twitter has owned since July 2010, according to Techcrunch, which first reported the plans.

5. Research by the Sunday Times appears to have disproved the theory that a disgruntled journalist started the Twitter storm which led to Ryan Giggs being named as the footballer at the centre of a privacy row. According to the Sunday Times, James Webley, 37, a digital marketing analyst at a high street bank posted the following Tweet: “So if Ryan Giggs wanted to cover up a hypothetical affair with Big Brother’s Imogen Thomas would that be a super-injunction or a regular one?”

6. Our latest infographic on the most popular Foursqaure badges (see above).

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Social Media TV News – 27 May 2011

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Here’s the latest news in the world of social media from the last seven days. In this week’s Trending bulletin:

1. Twitter has bought UK-based Tweetdeck for a reported £25Million

2. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that he wants to create a safe and educational website for under 13s.

3. The UK government has appointed a digital tsar with a £142,000 salary in an effort to save the country £6Million in web costs.

4. Following the superinjunction row, Twitter has confirmed that it will hand over the identities of those breaking injunctions to the authorities if it is legally required to do so. Steve Kuncewicz, media lawyer, explains more.

5. Superinjunction searches have dominated google searches this week in the UK, but with the onset of half term holidays, it’s no surprise that ‘Ash Cloud’ is this week’s top search term.

Every week we’ll be bringing you the latest social media campaigns, news and views. You can watch the latest broadcast bulletin on our home page http://www.umpf.co.uk every week or catch up with previous episodes here.

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Social Media TV – News May 13

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Here’s the latest news in the world of social media from the last seven days. In this week’s Trending bulletin:

1. Microsoft has bought Skype in a deal worth $8.5Billion – the largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history.

2. Google has launched its ‘Chromebook’, enabling users to ditch paid-for Microsoft applications like Word and use online free versions instead.

3. Twitter has had its busiest day ever for UK traffic, with news that superinjunctions were being breached on the social media platform. Media lawyer Steve Kuncewicz explains more.

4. Google has reported a 5000% increase in searches using the words ‘Twitter’ and ‘injunction’. The search giant also reveals the top ten search terms for last week.

Every week we’ll be bringing you the latest social media campaigns, news and views. You can watch the latest broadcast bulletin on our home page http://www.umpf.co.uk every week or catch up with previous episodes here.

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Social Media Round-up of the Week – 09 May

Monday, May 9th, 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 six.Check in 2

1. Social media users boast double the amount of friends online as offline, according to the latest research. It found that whilst the average patron of a social networking site such as Facebook can boast 121 separate connections, the reality is that the individual is likely only to have 55 physical friends.

2. Facebook is driving an increasing amount of traffic to news sites but Google remains the top referring service, according to a study published today.The study examined the 25 most popular news websites in the United States, looking at how users get to the sites, how long they stay there, how deep they explore a site and where they go when they leave.

3. A Twitter user today made a mockery of the celebrity trend for using privacy injunctions to hide their identity. @superinjunction, who quickly attracted a following of 5,000, set up an account claiming to ‘out’ those behind the legal gagging orders. So many Twitter users began exchanging messages supposedly naming high-profile figures who have hidden their secrets that part of the site crashed.

4. Forget Silicon Valley in California, the governement has just announced a £1Million funding competition for investment in the British equivalent; Silicon Roundabout. The competition, Tech City Launchpad, started last Friday and was announced by David Bott, the Technology Strategy Board’s director of Innovation Programmes, at the inaugural Digital Shoreditch Festival.

5. YouTube’s livestream of the Royal Wedding was viewed more than 72 million times last Friday, the company has revealed. That’s a higher number than the number of people living in the UK. In fact, if royal wedding web viewers were to form a nation (perhaps one in which everyone wears fancy hats), it would be the 19th largest country in the world.

6. The latest research from Beyond suggests that privacy concerns are stalling the growth of social location apps, with the findings in this infographic (above). We’re not sure whether we agree with the findings, but it’s certainly food for thought.

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