Category Archives: social media

Twitter popularity soaring in Australia

Twitter is picked up considerably in Australia in the last year.. This hitwise chart shows Twitters usage has increased 518.2% over the year… This chart only showing web usage, so that number is definately larger as twitter is a multi device platform. Thanks to Sandra Hanchard at Hitwise for the report The growth of twitter [...]

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Bad Use of SMO

Here is a poor attempt of using Social Media as a channel for promotion. “Seduce At Vbar” added me as a friend on facebook.. Because i’m aware to this type of SPAM, i naturally assumed from the name, that a place called Vbar is trying to promote a event or “night” called seduce.. At seeing [...]

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Facebook kills Top Friends Application

So Facebook have suspended the “Top Friends” Application.. This being the 3rd most popular application on the Social Networking Platform… The Application vanished on the 26th of June… and its Application page is being directed to the Facebook main page… Facebook said: We have suspended the Top Friends application while we investigate violations of our [...]

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Social Networking Wars

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Use Facebook, to help you Stop Smoking?

Social Networks’ Sway May Be Underestimated – Washington Post Smoking is a very social activity, people pick up smoking from their friends, they use it as an excuse to socialise at work.. And quiting smoking will depend largely on people around you quitting aswell.. A study published last week in the New England Journal of [...]

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Social Media in Plain English

Common Crafts next iteration of Explanations in Plain English… This one i actually found confusing with the whole ice cream referencing..

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