Searchability is an absolutely vital factor for any website trying to be found on the internet. After all, how can you hope to market yourself if your content doesn’t show on the SERP? A long known exception to this rule has been the social networks. This is particularly true for industry leaders Twitter and Facebook, […]
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With the increasing problem of cyber-bullying, which is said to have reached an epidemic level on social networking websites and internet forums, one could be forgiven for thinking that these websites suffer from a worrying degree of lawlessness. However, when The Independent newspaper journalist Guy Adams tweeted NBC Executive Gary Zenkel’s e-mail address and encouraged […]
Using Twitter as a marketing tool for your company is a strategy that’s still getting mixed reviews. Many say that the Twitter user’s natural aversion to commercialism on that channel make it too difficult to achieve any meaningful results. But at the end of the day, that hasn’t really stopped companies from trying. Many brands […]
After a sudden, four hour, Twitter service outage yesterday, many deprived Twitterers were left in a froth with everyone asking, what exactly had happened? Twitter’s official word on the event was that it was caused by a ‘cascaded bug’. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard the term, no one has either. Twitter apparently just invented […]
Social search has been a hot topic over the last few years. With the amount and speed of content being propagated on these types of sites, being able to navigate effectively through such a breadth of potentially valuable data was valid interest. And with Google+ being the first to release a high functionality social search […]
Twitter has had their “promoted Tweets” program running for some time now, as part of their effort to turn a profit from the widely used and ever-popular so-called micro-blogging service. Now, in a long awaited move, Twitter has opened up the process of advertising on their platform to small businesses, in conjunction with American Express, […]
The recent announcement regarding Google’s integration of Google+ content with search results, (as discussed here in our article on Google Search Plus) has produced some interesting reactions. Accusations of Google using its position in search to unfairly advantage its own products have been rumbling around for quite some time now, but it seems that this latest […]
According to recent news reports, Twitter announced yesterday that they will begin placing advertisements in users timelines, in a long anticipated attempt to effectively monetise the service. These ads, or “promoted tweets” as Twitter calls them, will be delivered only to followers of the company that’s advertising (for now?) and they’ll be launching it with […]
In a post on the Twitter Blog yesterday, the popular micro-blogging service announced that they will be serving ads, or “promoted tweets” in the timelines of users who follow the company that’s advertising. Twitter has been looking for a way to be profitable for years now, and nobody is quite sure if they’ve managed it […]
Ever popular, socially revolutionary, mind-numbingly boring, information overload. No matter what you think about it, Twitter has become a pervasive feature of the information-age landscape for good or ill. Often referred to as a micro-blogging service, Twitter (as you’ll know if you pay any attention to these things), lets users broadcast (or Tweet) messages of […]
