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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches Paper, Twitter Tweaks Homepage Search, Foursquare Now Delivers

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare: Facebook launches mobile app Paper. Foursquare. Any social media updates we missed?

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Twitter Changes the Social Data Ecosystem

Net-Savvy Executive

Today''s announcement that Twitter is buying Gnip raises big questions about the market for social media data. While it''s too early to know how things will fall out, the deal changes the shape of the playing field for everyone involved—publishers, data resellers, software developers, and corporate customers.

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5 Must-Reads On Social Media & Cyber Monday

Firebelly

A new IBM analysis of real-time sales data from Black Friday shows that Facebook and Twitter aren’t about to become the revenue freeway for retailers. Social networks fail Cyber Monday test. By Erik Sharman Signs suggest that it could be a long time before social networks play a major role in e-commerce.

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

My analysis and thoughts follow. For those not familiar, Postrank is a nifty little WordPress plugin that provides some analysis into the social engagement factor of the content you create. Based on the data above, here is what I’ve learned: 1. This article alone still brings people to my site as shown in the keyword data above.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of September 2010

SocialFish

What McDonald’s got wrong about Foursquare, Social Media strategy, measurement, and ethical reporting. Data Hoarding – Is it Time to Purge? tech analysis truth. We Don’t Ask ‘Why’ Enough (Beth Harte). Olivier Blanchard). I like Ferrari’s take on transparency (unassociated). The Value of a “Liker&# (Facebook + Media).

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Link Love Monthly: Best of November 2010 [experimental]

SocialFish

KLM surprises travelers to see ‘how happiness spreads’ (About Foursquare). Secrets of the LinkedIn Data Scientists (ReadWriteWeb). New York Times Looks for Answers in Data (GigaOm). To succeed in social media, set aside your marketing plan {Grow}. Selling social to the C-suite: The power of referrals (SmartBlog on Social Media).

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Taking a Peek at Twitter Analytics

Social Media Marketing

I received an email recently that contained an analysis of a high-profile Silicon Valley executive’s Twitter followers, as performed by PeekAnalytics. The request was to share the analysis with you, my readers. The remaining 40% identifies as light users (naturally, by following this account at all, they are at a minimum light users).

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