Can Facebook get you a job? Well, on the face of things, no. Clearly, you’d have to have something approaching the right qualifications and skills to actually get the gig. But social media is definitely helping; according to a new study by Jobvite and MBA Online, one in six workers used social media to help [...]
At this time of year, Twitter and Facebook might come in handy for proving the existence of Santa Claus to cynical children. But given the abundance of fake Clauses out there, we thought we’d provide a guide to choosing your online Saint Nick wisely.
Usually high school kids have to write more than 140 characters to get a college scholarship. Now, thanks to KFC, students who attach the hashtag #KFCScholar to a tweet could end up scoring $20,000 for their college education.
What is the value of one Twitter user? If you believe an email the company is sending out to advertisers, the answer could be as little as $2.50.
Rolling out over the next few weeks, Twitter’s new design aims to simplify things a bit with four prominent tabs—Home, Connect, Discover and Me. The new look and feel will be consistent across Twitter’s standard website, mobile apps and TweetDeck desktop software.
Tweeters of the world, feel proud: You are creating history, 140 characters at a time… even if you didn’t know you were doing it.
It probably comes as no surprise to learn that English is the most used language on Twitter, but perhaps you wouldn’t have expected to learn that Arabic is by far the fastest-growing language on the service, with a growth rate of more than 2000% over the last year.
A new study tracking the use of social media to promote small businesses in the U.S. seems like a lesson in counter-intuitive thinking; while 88% of small businesses believe that social media does or will impact their impact their business, a full 67% of those same businesses have no plans to make any additional investments in social media during 2012.
Two new studies concerning Twitter have been released this week, simultaneously asking and answering why it’s a social network that companies can’t quite get an effective handle on. Why do people tweet, and why does that make it so hard for media organizations to take advantage of Twitter?
Social media has some distance to go in terms of convincing people of its trustworthiness, apparently. A new study has found that most people in the U.K. and U.S. prefer old media when it comes to news, with only 19% of Americans considering Twitter and Facebook trusted news sources.
A new legal precedent was set yesterday with the decision by a U.S. District Court Judge that the government can, in fact, collect information about you through your internet use without a warrant.
