How your website’s speed will now play in where you show up in Google’s search results. Twitter reveals a new feature, how this could impact businesses and Twitter users. And get your Gleek on, Glee returns to TV this week but not after a few Glee viral videos hit the web. We’ll take a look at some of them in today’s social media news brief for Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (more…)
Twitter is all about change this week. Yesterday the company announced they will begine to add advertisements known as “Promoted Tweets” to the site. Today the company is answering the question that’s been on everyone’s mind for years. “How many people are actually on Twitter?”
Twitter CEO Biz Stone announced at the companies first developer conference, Chirp, that the site has exactly 105,779,710 users. Obviously that number has jumped since this morning, but that’s about a third of the US population and about 25% of Facebook’s population. The number is quite an accomplishment and is on the right track to be the next to Facebook. (more…)
Twitter has launched it’s advertising platform, which many have been anticipating for months. Obviously, Twitter has to make money some how and today is the day that ad’s are introduced to the site. And like Biz Stone said back in November, “It’s going to be amazing.” The best part seems to be that the ad platform seems to be well liked in the first hour of it’s debut.
Unlike most ad’s which can take up plenty of room, ad’s on Twitter come in a small box underneath a tweet, saying “Promoted by…” which will come up in search results. In all honesty, it doesn’t take up to much room and doesn’t make the site look awful, however it’s still noticeable, which is good news for businesses that are going to want to jump on board. (more…)
It’s been awhile since we first heard Rupert Murdoch that he would block News Corp. websites off the search engines, particularly Google. And since nothing has happened within the past 5 months, Murdoch warned the world again over the weekend that his sites will no longer be available to the search engines. .
“We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing . . . there is a law of copyright and they recognise it,” Murdoch said according to Paul Harris who attended the National Press Club. (more…)
You may recall back in November, we shared with you in a news brief that Google was talking about making page speed part of it’s ranking system. Now that has become the reality. Googled confirmed in a blog post late last week, that site speed with now factor in where you show up in Google’s ranking.
“Speeding up websites is important – not just to site owners, but to all Internet users,” said Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal, both from Google. “Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there. But faster sites don’t just improve user experience; recent data shows that improving site speed also reduces operating costs.” (more…)
Twitter announced on Friday that they have offically purchased Atebits, the company which produces the Tweetie iPhone application along with a desktop application for Mac’s. It’s the first time Twitter has linked up and purchased a fellow company, which is just sign at how well the social network is doing.
Loren Brichter is Tweetie’s creator, and will be part of the Twitter mobile team. In a blog post last Friday, Twitter said that the iPhone app will change it’s name from Tweetie to “Twitter for iPhone, and will be made free within the next several weeks.
Are China & Google getting friendly? What the country did this week, that’s confusing everyone. Then how many American’s are really using social media? We’ll take a look at the astonishing numbers. And a few viral videos captured our attention this week, we’ll take a look at a few of them on iePlexus Social Media News Brief for today Friday, April 09, 2010. (more…)
In a bit of a extremely quiet week in the social media and search worlds, finally a bit of news. Small and new developments coming from the China-Google saga.
For the past week, Google has reported on their “Mainland China service availability” page that mobile searches were partially blocked, however as of late last night, Google is entirely available on mobile devices.
Doug Cavely of WebProNews said, “Assuming the yellow wrench doesn’t reappear tomorrow, this development may represent a significant breakthrough. Even a sort of victory for Google, if the Chinese government has decided not to follow through on some rather harsh statements about lawbreakers being ‘unfriendly, irresponsible,’ and having ‘to pay the consequences.'” (more…)
It’s been a slow week across the social media and search engine world. Most of the online hype has been about the iPad, which came out over the weekend. Other than that, nothing.
Mashable.com has been doing a great job of keeping their readers entertained with social media news with a few infographics. Yesterday, I shared one of those with you, comparing Facebook’s American population to the actual countries population. Today, I decided to share with you “The History of Location Technology.” (more…)
I always talk about how if Facebook were it’s own nation, it’s population would be larger than the United States. But obviously, not every American is on Facebook. So what would happen if we took just the American’s on Facebook and compared that to the actual US population.
This morning, Mashable published an interesting Infograph. Muhammad Saleem provided the graphic, which show that about a third of all American’s are on the social network. While of course, most of the numbers are estimates, it’s fun to take a look at. (more…)
