Unique features like avatar mouse-overs that give more details about that user’s relevant tweets make Twazzup a surprisingly powerful and valuable social media monitoring tool. pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact 20 Top Twitter Monitoring and Analytics Tools by Pam Dyer on April 26, 2010 Share Image via Wikipedia Social media is much more than a way to stay connected and to have fun: it’s a way to market yourself, your business, and your products and services. How is your brand perceived? What are people saying about you and your products? MORE >>

link] Technology : Facebook breaks 250 million Facebook has broken 250 million users and is crushing MySpace in terms of page views, you’ll want to listen to this one! Take note. :) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:58 — 24.7MB) Filed Under: Business , Finances , General , News , Podcasts , Social Media , Technology Tagged: Americas Got Talent , Branding , Facebook , Halo 3 , Mentor , mistakes , MySpace , training Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. You’ll have to ignore the background noise, but awesome content regardless! MORE >>

Here are some tips you can apply to your Facebook marketing strategy that will put your Facebook Page leaps and bounds ahead of the competition: Maximize Your Avatar Visibility Profile pictures on Facebook can have a maximum size of 200×600 pixels. Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials , to two readers. Scroll down to the end of the post for details on how to win. Marketers love Facebook. This applies to Pages as well. Now click “Close&#. MORE >>

Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17 Maybe nice avatars or backgrounds created by budding entrepreneurs and facilitated by Twitter? Threadless, YouTube, MySpace have all had that in the past. Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. One, should we monetize other people’s activity? Two, how can Twitter make money? Customer Pays Twitter . 20 million? MORE >>

Habbo has also entered partnerships with media brands such as MTV and Myspace , helping to promote the site amongst its key target audience. And the community continues to grow as these statistics from June 2010 show: 172 million avatars created. Image by Ivan Walsh via Flickr. Habbo , the world’s largest teenage online community , has recently celebrated its tenth birthday, proving that sustainable success can be achieved with  online communities. The first version of Habbo was rolled out in August 2000, followed by an English-language beta version in January 2001. MORE >>