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Social media plays huge role amidst madness of UK riots
We’re sure we’re not the only ones who have been glued to our Twitter streams over the past 3 days, following UK riot news with intrigue and disbelief. The riots, that continued to cause mass devastation in major towns across the country late in to yesterday evening, are undoubtedly one of the most unsettling news stories in modern history. The reasons behind how and why these riots are happening is…
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Social media in 2011 – statistics, milestones & predictions
Back in March, we shared some social media statistics that demonstrated the impressive growth of some of the biggest social networking sites over the past 12 months. No prizes for guessing Facebook and Twitter made considerable gains during that time. Since we posted those stats the growth of these sites (and others) has continued to make news. Listed below is a roundup of some recent milestones that we think are…
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Facebook testing real-time feeds
Last week it came to light that Facebook was testing real-time, ‘Happening Now’ news feeds. The ‘Happening Now’ feature will allow users to see what their friends are liking, commenting on and sharing in real-time, much like a Twitter stream. It’s likely that the live stream will also serve other information including Places checkins, photo tags and events such as birthdays. The stream is displayed as a side-bar on the right of the page, where…
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Twitter rolls out new follow button
It’s about time Twitter did something useful as announcements from the company of late haven’t offered much to get excited about. This week Twitter announced the launch of their new follow button, which will allow users to follow Twitter accounts with a single click directly from any website. Image credit – Mykl Roventine At first glance this may not seem like a new feature, as many websites already have a…
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New Sunday Times ‘Social List’ – like a rich list for geeks
In an effort to state it’s social savviness, The Sunday Times has launched The Social List – a fun spin on it’s annual ‘Rich List’. According to it’s creators, The Social List “determines your wealth, not by how much money you make but by how rich you are socially”. Being a curious bunch, we were keen to test our ‘social wealth’. Considering all the hype we were expecting something special….
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There’s more to life than social media…
A blog entry posted yesterday by Econsultancy has sparked some interesting discussion here at Browser Media Studios. The post, ‘Ignore social media, acquire more clients?’ is an interesting take on the often short-sightedness of social media as a marketing platform. It’s an issue that we see far too often, agencies pitching social media tools before considering the bigger picture or truly exploring their clients’ pain points and overall marketing objectives….
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Study shows big brands’ social pages not ranking well in Google. So what?
A study released by BrightEdge suggests that the majority of ‘big brands’ are failing to optimise their social media pages for SEO. Around 70% of the 200 analysed brands’ social media pages (Facebook & Twitter) did not show in Google’s top 20 results for brand specific searches. BrightEdge CEO, Jim Yu explained, "Brands today are pouring countless resources into social media channels—and are creating great content that will help them…
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Is Twitter planning its own Facebook-style brand pages?
The web is rife with speculation and rumour. Today, Twitter’s in the spotlight. Rumour has it that Twitter is planning to roll out Facebook-style brand pages in an effort generate that illusive advertising revenue it’s been seeking for so long. Efforts to date have been half-baked and generally unpopular with the Twitter community. This latest effort, speculative as it is, looks like no exception. The magic of Twitter is its…
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2011 social media statistics show huge growth
Welcome to another social media statistics blog post. It’s no secret that ‘social media’ is growing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We won’t bore you too much with that. There are a million and one places where you can find social media stats, but what use are statistics alone? It’s not until they’re put in to some perspective that they can truly be appreciated. Leading…
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Twitter celebrates its fifth birthday
“Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you” etc. etc.. Today marks the birthday of something very special. No, not Timothy Dalton. We are of course referring to the worlds favourite micro-blogging service, Twitter, which turned four today. The business was founded in San Francisco in 2006 and has since grown at an astonishing rate, now employing around 400 people. The first Tweet was sent by co-founder Jack Dorsey on…
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