The problem with most corporate social media strategies, according to one expert, is that they’re just not social enough, they’re actually anti-social, and that that will lead to “social blindness” and a downturn in overall brand loyalty if left unchecked.
Brian Solis, a new media analyst from Altimeter, believes that corporate social …
It’s the classic good news/bad news situation for Twitter. The good news: It’s looking less likely that the company is going to face accusations that its platform is being used by activists such as the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters to organize, and therefore face legal action as a result. The bad news: It’s because activists seem to be …
If you’ve been badmouthing the Federal Reserve on Twitter and thinking no one cares, be warned: That’s not going to be the case much longer. The Fed is already planning to ensure that it knows exactly what you’re saying about it on all forms of social media.
Responses are due today to a Request for Proposal issued by the Federal …
Next time you leave your home for any appreciable length of time, whatever you do, don’t tell the Internet. A new study has revealed that an unsettling 78% of burglars use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to choose just where they’re going to break in next.
That’s not the only way that burglars have started using …
For my Technologizer column on TIME.com this week, I wrote about the controversy over Google+’s insistence that members sign up with their “common names,” a requirement that displeases people who wish to be able to maintain a secondary identity online (as well as folks who have gotten caught in the crossfire, such as ones who Google has …
Bad news for those who use social media as a way to escape politics: Twitter is planning to sell political advertising in the run-up to next year’s U.S. election, and five Presidential campaigns are already on board.
The good news is that the advertising won’t take the form of the controversial insertion of tweets within your …
Whether by grand design or coincidence, Twitter seems to be going through some interesting changes recently, saying goodbye to some important figures from its past and making us wonder just what kind of updates we should be expecting, in 140 characters or less.
Last week, the company lost its Chief Scientist, as Abdur Chowdhury …
As calls for comprehensive online privacy legislation get louder, Congress is looking to the experience of our cousins across the Atlantic where the European Union has had strict privacy regulations for over 15 years. What they’re finding is that privacy protections come with tradeoffs.
At a House hearing yesterday, M.I.T. Professor …
Facebook continues to refine the level of control granted to users over their News Feed. The social network’s newest feature, Subscriptions, functions similarly to the way you can follow people on Twitter, but with a few notable differences.
The new subscriptions service adds another layer to Facebook’s relationship hierarchy, which …
Sure, Americans may cumulatively spend 53 billion minutes per month on Facebook, but at least users in the U.S. understand that social media is less important than the ability to, for example, flush away human waste…unlike Facebook addicts in the United Kingdom.
A study, carried out by the London Science Museum, has discovered that …
Yoko Ono is more interested in the lives of strangers than you are.
In fact, you might be able to make the argument that she’s more interested in the lives of strangers than anyone else, as she’s currently following 692,318 people on Twitter (as I type these words), more than any other account on the social media service. The next …
100,000,000. That’s Twitter’s magic user number, apparently.
Twitter has finally revealed how many people actively use its microblogging service worldwide, and it’s significantly higher than the 21 million estimated by Business Insider earlier this year. According to CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter has 100 million active users currently, …
