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08 Oct 2009 09:42

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Tech: Here’s a big social media graphic for you kids to chew on

MySpace is dipping big time, Facebook is growing super-fast, and so is Twitter, except Twitter is still closer to the bottom than the top. source

08 Oct 2009 08:19

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Tech: Have a “real job”? You may have to take your Twitter pic in a suit

  • 70% of businesses will require dress codes for avatars by 2013 source

07 Oct 2009 11:01

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Tech: Looking for a loyal social media lover? Look to Facebook.

  • 20% of Facebook users will come back for some more of your blog’s lovin’; Digg users are also loyal source

03 Oct 2009 23:51

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Tech: There’s a lot of clutter in Tweetland, Techcrunch sez

That's a lot of tweets
  • See that microscopic window, split in half because it’s so huge? Those are all Tweets run through Seesmic’s Web interface, made as a joke by one of the program’s developers. (There’s 1,200 in there.) TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld argues that this is a bug, and it’s a good excuse to cut back on the clutter the program makes. We argue that while he has a point, he’s being perhaps a little dramatic. source

03 Oct 2009 22:12

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30 Sep 2009 19:50

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28 Sep 2009 09:13

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Biz: Newspapers try to find the advertising balance on Twitter

  • Unfollowed @statesman. Best of luck w/ the Twitter ads, but if I can avoid them, I will.
  • Twitter user @LukeMorris • On his decision to stop following the Austin American-Statesman’s Twitter feed because the feed runs occasional ads. The Statesman is taking the lead with Tweet-based advertising, something which is a sore subject with users. Although, really, should it be? Twitter’s already the most useful marketing tool ever. You’re getting advertised to more than you think on the service. It might be a perception thing. • source
 

27 Sep 2009 12:04

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Tech: Why everyone wants to share their articles online (including us!)

  • Twitter users, on average, click a link posted to a site source
  • LinkedIn users click a link when it’s posted to that site source
  • Digg users click a link every time a new one’s posted source

27 Sep 2009 03:56

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24 Sep 2009 19:47

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Biz, Tech: Twitter has a lot of venture capital; it should give us some

  • $100 million amount of money being injected into the site in a hot round of venture capital source