According to a very close source to the microblogging company, Twitter will get 25 millions dollars due to their search agreements with Google and Microsoft. These revenues would be enough for Twitter to break even before end of this year according to the same source.
Since some weeks ago, the music industry looks quite busy due to Christmas single charts competition. In UK, for the last four years the Christmas number one position in the UK Singles Chart has been occupied by the winner of The X Factor TV show. But this year things were different for the successful talent hunting show.
But once again, social networking managed to change the rules of the game in the music industry and driven by thousands of downloads and Facebook group campaigning “Killing in the name” reached number one UK single chart list again.
Sharing small pieces of information about your daily life is a key feature of today’s social networking features. From Facebook to Twitter, answering the question about what are you doing is the most important activity done by roughly 500 Million social networkers.
But in the future technology will enable your status updates and other social information to be generated automatically from the enviroment.
Pingdom released a new study showing the ratio between men and women on top 19 social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Imeem, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com and Bebo.
The research reveals that women rules the social networking space with a higher proportion of users in most of the sites.
Social media is already mainstream media and Singapore is at the forefront. The most wired country in the world with more broadband connections than homes is leading the way on time spent on social networks. With 4.8 broadband connections in total and highly advanced digital pattern, Singaporeans spend in average 1.300 minutes on internet every month according to Comscore.
Is also fascinating to see that Social media is chaging consumer norms and value. For instance, 51% of all Singaporeans trust more in blogs than traditional media, and Blogger is the 6th most visited site in the country. On the 20 top most visited sites in Singapore, 80% are related to social media or user generated content.
About 71% of all Singaporeans belong to a social networking site according to brand republic and they visit social networking site in average 17 times a month . continue reading »
Social media is growing big time in the world and Malaysia is not the exception. Three main key drivers can explain this flourishing digital lifestyle in Malaysia society: consumer internet behavior, broadband growth and content digitalization. More interesting is that this trend is reaching the business segment and creating new opportunities for companies to share, communicate and build bond with their customers.
About 80% of Malaysian’s most valuable brands according to Interbrand, already have a social media channel in the form of blog, community, Twitter account, Facebook site, MySpace community fans club page or other social inventory.
Just as a good example is how AirAsia is engaging their online community via a wide range selections of channels like corporate blog, Tony Fernandes CEO Blog , AirAsia Travel Wish List application on Facebook Application, AirAsia Facebook Fan Page , AirAsia employees Facebook Group, AirAsiaGroup Channel on YouTube among others.
Let’s take a look to Malaysia Social media phenomenon….
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