and that on March 23rd, 2011 LinkedIn reached a major milestone: 100 million professionals worldwide! This makes LinkedIn the fourth American social network after MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter to do so.
Here’s a cool illustration by Infographics that demonstrates the growth…
On March 2nd, Charlie Sheen smashed the Guinness World Record for fastest person to garner 1 million followers on Twitter, doing so only 25 hours 17 minutes after his Twitter profile went live. Today – one week later – he has over 2.3 million followers.
Businesses may not enjoy the same spiking popularity as celebrities in meltdown mode, but Charlie Sheen has certainly highlighted the fact that a massive, active audience lurks on Twitter, ready to follow anyone who can capture attention with “winning” ways.
Twitter blog announced changes that will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks including the following video:
During the preview, you’ll be able to switch back and forth so you have time to grow accustomed to the way things work, but eventually, everyone will have the updated version of Twitter.com.
The company has also revealed a big new way to grow its audience: a button that publishers can use to ask questions on their website called “Respond.” As the name suggests, it lets visitors respond to a question posed by the publisher. The button itself resembles the Tweet, Facebook share and Digg buttons already pervasive on millions of sites across the web.
Mom and Dad always told me that I should never say anything or put anything in writing that I did not want repeated. This rule has served me well over the years and is a staple in my social media presentations because technology can never be trusted to delete content, nor can privacy/security settings in my experience.
As a result, changes in our legal system don’t effect me personally, but could very well put journalistic sources at risk if they use social media to relay their information…
As a result of its current law enforcement guidelines, Twitter is going to divulge the information. The provision is fairly typical for technology startups to include in their policies as a way to protect themselves from getting involved in legal issues pertaining to the platform’s users. With such a policy, Twitter is not held responsible, and in many ways it should not be. According to the media lawyers we interviewed, this kind of government request is not unique.
Today we’re launching a revamped version of business.twitter.com – a site that provides the basics on how businesses can use Twitter effectively. We’ve seen tremendous growth in the creative ways businesses and organizations are leveraging Twitter, and we want to make sure you have access to their great ideas. We’ll continue to update the site with fresh use cases, tips, tools, and resources.
Savvy marketers and business owners have flocked to Foursquareto take advantage of their 4.5 million members for one simple reason: Foursquare requires action. Conversations on Twitter and fan engagement on a brand’s Facebook Page can be valuable pieces to a successful social media marketing campaign, but user activity at the point of sale is the ultimate objective for us marketers and business owners. We ultimately want action, and geolocation networks like Foursquare deliver the goods.
One of the categories SMBs ask for the most help with is social media. You need to quickly and easily keep an eye on what people are saying about you; more importantly, you need to participate in the social media conversation yourself, without drowning hours upon endless hours bouncing around various websites.
There are three great tools we’d recommend for pushing out updates to a variety of sites at once. All three have free, web-based services, and they’re great for working with teams, too. Depending on your specific needs and tastes, you could try out Hootsuite, Seesmic and TweetDeck.
If you want to see what people are saying about your company, your product, your location or your vertical in real time, try searching for relevant terms on Collecta or SocialMention.
You also have options for network-specific monitoring tools. To see how your tweets are performing, tryCrowdBooster. And remember, Twitter’s official analytics product is coming soon, too. For Facebook, use that social network’s Insights dashboard for your business’s Facebook Page.
On March 2nd, Charlie Sheen smashed the Guinness World Record for fastest person to garner 1 million followers on Twitter, doing so only 25 hours 17 minutes after his Twitter profile went live. Today – one week later – he has over 2.3 million followers.
