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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks.

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5 Fun Twitter Quizzes

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays Fun Online Finds | Main | Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site » July 09, 2010 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes Its Friday and todays fun finds are 5 Twitter quizzes that are sure to entertain you, enlighten you, and help you unwind after a busy work week.

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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

Firebelly

86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study. 35% (173) of the Fortune 500 have active Twitter accounts (a post within the past thirty days); and nearly 50% of the top 100 companies (47) have a Twitter account. The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13).

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How Facebook is Slowly Strangling Twitter

Convince & Convert

For years, Twitter has rolled out new features to make its service more like Facebook. It’s as if the Twitter board of directors has spent the last two years pining to be as big as Facebook, and has consistently concluded that mimicking elements of that platform will unlock that secret code. Twitter rolls out Vine.

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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

Waxing UnLyrical

You only have to think back a few years to MySpace to see why you should not build on someone else’s digital land. When MySpace launched, it was full of promise, Many people, businesses, and artists flocked to it, creating pages and in some cases, taking down their websites and pointing their domain names to their MySpace page.

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Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter

Firebelly

» June 04, 2010 Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter Heres an interesting look at a breakdown of the several different Twitter user types. I assure you that not only women are interesting in generating reactions on Twitter -plenty of men do as well. Its kind of sexist really. View an alternate.

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Is LinkedIn the New Old Boys Network?

Adam Sherk

In fact the male/female usage percentages are the exact opposite on Twitter. That’s interesting in and of itself, as marketers sometimes (over) generalize that men prefer Twitter while Facebook is more appealing to women. Related posts: Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter.

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