Tweet Recent comment count on Facebook brand pages is going up, just proving that now, people accept social media as an effective method of communicating with their brand and entering a conversation. These comments can obviously be both positive and negative and can suddenly spring up in quantities if your update has a viral potential. lot of brands on Facebook, like Coca-Cola or Disney, have a very large user base of loyal fans and in recent past they have received up to 2000 comments per post. How to Handle Fans’ Feedback on Your Facebook Page. MORE >>

Search engines prove this statement true, evident by people such as Marc Pitman discovering old content to answer new questions. Old content is especially helpful when one sees lots of comments, tweets, and other social sharing metrics reflecting the value of whatever is written. 90 is the number of comments about blog lurking , illustrating why you choose not to comment. 75 is the number of comments about the value of writing negatively , which according to Jeannie Chan, speaks volumes about what you think. Why Do You Subscribe to Blog Comments? MORE >>

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs.  A comment makes us feel good and/or helps to extend the post itself.  I love comments as much as the next blogger.  MORE >>

Today someone said something which still has me reeling hours later: “Facebook will eventually replace websites.&# Facebook may have 500 million users and be raking in the dollars, but lets be perfectly clear: while Facebook can certainly be useful as an outpost to your company’s website, it could not and should not ever replace it. Thinking Facebook could take the place of a company’s website is like saying your car is so great soon you can just live in it and get rid of your house. Your Facebook page just disappeared? Surely not. Numbers. MORE >>

Facebook recently introduced a new version of its Facebook Comment Box Plugin , allowing website owners to integrate their commenting functionality with their Facebook presence. We’ve already looked at the pros and cons of the Facebook commenting plugin for businesses considering implementing the plugin on their sites. Do they personalize responses more by using commenters’ own Facebook accounts (does that cross a work/life boundary)? Do they just avoid commenting on sites using this plugin? What’s yours? MORE >>