Social networking
Find new Tweeps to follow
Twitter — just like most social networks — becomes more useful as you connect with more users. But finding those users can be tough for a newbie. Other social networks have created tools that automatically generate lists of users to connect with based on a user’s habits, but Twitter has yet to generate a similar [...]
Number of edits on Wikimedia’s sites
1,000,000,000 as of April 16, according to the foundation’s website, which manages several Wiki sites including Wikipedia.
Monthly users of a Facebook game
81,572,860 for Farmville, the most popular game on Facebook, according to April 16 statistics from All Facebook, a site devoted to coverage of the social network.
Automatically feed a site’s content to Twitter and Facebook
Updating multiple social media accounts can be time-consuming. One way to cut down on time spent managing social media presences it to automatically post content from another website. TwitterFeed is a free service that allows you to send headlines from a website or blog directly to Twitter or Facebook using the site’s RSS feed (if [...]
How do divisions in social networks affect professional communicators?
In front of a packed audience in a New York City auditorium, researcher Danah Boyd posed a question. She asked the roomful of political junkies, activists and tech aficionados at the annual Personal Democracy Forum how many were on Facebook. Almost all raised their hands. Then she repeated the question, instead asking about MySpace. Almost [...]
Adult social network users with MySpace profiles
50% according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s compared to 22% for Facebook.
Internet time spent on social networks
17% according to research from Nielsen.
Launch your own social network
So after all this talk about social networks, what if you’re interested in starting your own? Ning is the place to go. There are already more than 1.5 million social networks on the site on a wide variety of topics. The site can be useful for both internal and external collaboration. People have launched social [...]
Social networks are enhanced by exclusion
The value of a social network is defined not only by who’s on it, but by who’s excluded. — Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley analyst, in an interview with The Economist
Are niche social networks the future of social networking?
When the topic turns to social networks the conversation tends to be about the typical players – Facebook and MySpace. However, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of online social networks out there that don’t even begin to rival the millions of users of the big ones but instead cater to niche audiences. Many of [...]