According to HackerNews via TNW, 55,000 twitter usernames and passwords were leaked, + celebrity accounts. You can check if you are in the list (divided in 5 parts) : page1 | page2 | page3 | page4 | page5. TNW said Twitter reset the passwords and resent an email to the owners so they are safe [...]
Are you Twitter dependant ? You could be addicted to Twitter if you have reserved a twitter handle for your unborn child or you own the book Twitterature. According to a US study, Twitter is harder to resist than alcohol, cigarettes, sex, Caffeine or Sleep. After antidepressants, soon the pills for social media addiction ? (or for Internet and [...]
Twitter just announced that he bought the startup Posterous. Terms were not disclosed. Posterous is a blogging platform especially useful for mobile use (via android and iOS aps). It allows to quickly share status, documents, photos and videos. In September 2011 Posterous Spaces said it was mutating in a Social Network. “Posterous engineers, product managers [...]
Seevibes just published an infographic about the most popular images of the 84th Academy Awards Ceremony shared on Twitter. For those who don’t know Seevibes, it’s a Montreal-based startup run by video blogger Laurent Maisonnave, that analyzes and measures Social TV and Radio Audience by interacting with the influencers in order to leverage the engagement, to [...]
Webtrends Design Lab analyzed nearly 500,000 tweets in order to predict who will be the winners of the 84th Academy Awards. Here is the list. Will Twitter be right ? We’ll compare them to the True Winners.
Twitter just passed the 500-million user mark today according to Twopcharts. With 10 new users per second, 40,000 per hour and 1 million per day, the social network has pretty huge numbers. 600 million member mark should be reached in mid-june 2012 (in about 107 days) according to twopcharts estimates (explanations here). Officially Twitter doesn’t [...]
Since yesterday I have the new Twitter version in my accounts. I don’t know if I’m late or early but this new design is very different from the previous one. The content (tweets) is pushed completely on the right and the menus are on the left. The new design is nice but I must admit [...]
This is the ultimate infographic for Twitter Marketing and internet marketers. 200,000 tweets were analyzed to understand when and how to tweet to have the best ROI. What you need to know : -even if you are allowed to post up to 140 characters, use only 120 to 130 -put your links at 25% of [...]
French Startup Semiocast just published a new study about Twitter numbers. As of January 1st, 2012, the social network has now 383 million users around the world. United States have 108 million accounts (half of them are active), Brazil 33 million (2nd position) and Japan 30 million (3rd place). Canada is no 10 with around [...]
Here is a new viral video to promote Twitter Jobs… The video is a little crazy, old-fashioned style but very efficient. We know one thing : CEO Dick Costolo has the sense of humor! Twitter staff : (they look nice) Note that this is not a parody but a real video from Twitter itself!
A Study from University of Vermont shows that the overall mood on Twitter is depressing this year. Are we sad, are we unhappy ? Probably. In 2008, the overall trend was up ; in 2009 and 2011, it was relatively flat. But starting at the end of 2010 and during all this year we can [...]
Starting yesterday Twitter updated its tweet/follow buttons quietly on all sites that had previously installed them. This time the entire site + the mobile version + Tweetdeck have a redesign. This new version will be available within the next few weeks, except for mobile.twitter.com and Twitter for iPhone/Android that is available immediately. As you can [...]
2 days ago, I published here a list of Twitter Trending Topics for 2011, established by Hootsuite. This time, here’s the official Twitter List. Hashtags (keywords preceded by #) Top List : Egypt no1, no surprise : Most discussed topics on Twitter : -Category Technology: Mac App Store, the new Sony NGP and Guitar Hero [...]
The change is subtle but you will certainly catch it : Twitter has quietly put live its new buttons. It’s a light new design but you can now see the little blue bird and a darker color for the text (more visible among all others competitors…). Example on this site with the buttons around my [...]
Which keywords or expressions were trending on Twitter in 2011 ? Here’s the answer thanks to WhatTheTrend/Hootsuite. Still number 1 in the World : Justin Bieber… , soccer/football, Lady Gaga and NBA. These top 10 lists were extracted from a total of 207 000 Hashtags. Top 10 Trending Topics for 2011 : 1. Justin Bieber [...]
An important milestone in the life of Google + : in France the new social network has surpassed Twitter in terms of unique visitors for the month of September. According to figures from Nielsen/Mediametrie for the month of September 2011 (note: G + opened to everyone on September 21), Google + recorded 3.04 million unique [...]
Here is an infographic that tracks key statistics of major social networks. It is amazing to see how Facebook is far, really far ahead with 310 million unique visitors per day and 640 million registered members. Regarding the number of daily visitors, Orkut comes in 2nd place with “only” 51 million visitors a day. StumbleUpon [...]
Here is a milestone in the life of the social network Twitter: first tweet was done at the top of the mount Everest (8848 m) by the British mountaineer Kenton Cool. The climber tweeted his message on a Samsung Galaxy S2, provided by the manufacturer. A nice viral advertising for Samsung. This highest tweet on [...]
The death of Osama bin Laden was announced yesterday by the U.S. in a television speech by Barack Obama. And again, the Microblogging network Twitter was the first to report the news, before TV and online newspapers. That’s enough to give even more credibility to Twitter, in speed and accuracy. Part 1. The Beginning: Sohaib [...]
Twitter.com was launched in July of 2006 by Jack Dorsey, whose idea was to make it possible for individuals to use SMS messages to send communication to a group. Partnering with board members from Odeo, a podcasting company, Dorsey began working on the project. Twitter users post what are known as “tweets”, messages that contain [...]
