As 2011 comes to a close, Nielsen reviewed the top social media sites during the year, with Facebook getting three times more visits than its closest rivals Blogger and Twitter.
Facebook is to allow advertisers to buy space in the social network’s main news feed, rather than just on the right hand column of the main page.
The most popular hashtags of 2011 have been revealed, illustrating how Twitter spans diverse topics from politics to celebrity gossip.
MySpace has fallen out the UK’s top ten most visited social networking sites for the first time ever, according to new research.
Saudi billionaire Prince bin Talal has paid $300m to take a “strategic stake” in Twitter.
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Facebook has reportedly bought Gowalla, an online location-sharing service, for an undisclosed sum.
Digital ad network RadiumOne has announced the launch of its new social sharing platform, Po.st, enabling consumers to share content via Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, email and other online destinations.
‘Daily is Out’, ‘Via’, and ‘@’ are amongst six phrases that increase the number of click troughs on tweets, according to new research.
Many mainstream media firms in the US are missing a trick when it comes to Twitter, using the micro-blogging services as a one-way broadcast platform, rather than to engage users and peers in conversation, according to a new study.