September 2009
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Twitter Visualizations at the MTV VMAs
The Twitter visualizations used on MTV.com during the VMAs were pretty interesting. Design firm Stamen (more on their blog here) and social media monitoring company Radian6, are credited with showing VMA twitter activity around an artist or band growing and shrinking in real time according to the number tweets. The timeline remains live here.
The timeline is not overly easy to use. It tends...
Facebook Now Profitable; Reaches 300 Million Users
briansolis:
Today, Facebook announced that we have hit 300 million users and we are free cash flow positive. Other interesting facts: More than 2 billion photos uploaded to the site each month More than 14 million videos uploaded each month More than 2 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week More than 3 million events...
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Twitter Usage and Demographics
(UPDATE) Twitter processes approximately 100k tweets per hour. See math below.
Here’s a compilation of recent stats on Twitter’s U.S. traffic growth…
Excerpted from Journal of the American Society for Information Sciences and Technology by Penn State Live:
“20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests, according to Jim...
“Facebook is the private party. Twitter is the public square. This line has been...”
– Why Facebook will never be Twitter - BusinessWeek (via betashop)