Facebook ReTweets Again
Tuesday, den 19. January 2010
Following on from last week’s privacy bombshell, Facebook have sneakily rolled out a new feature which could potentially further impinge on user privacy – their version of Twitter’s popular ReTweet function, the Via feature.
The ReTweet or Via functions allow for a user to share another user’s post or link with their own friends list, giving the link or item a potentially bigger readership. On Twitter, this is simply done by typing RT @username before copy and pasting the post in, while Facebook’s new Via feature works by clicking ‘Share’ from an item posted in your news feed and a line saying “Via *Friend*with a link to their profile appears. Researching users as far afield as America, Europe and Australia has led us to believe that this new feature is live for all users. Give it a go yourself.
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Facebook to Allow User Policing
Tuesday, den 5. January 2010
Moderating community sites such as internet forums is a largely thankless task; as a rule, users don’t like being told what they can or can’t talk about on the internet, and social networking sites such as Facebook are largely not much different. However, a site such as Facebook will naturally be much more difficult for moderators purely due to the size of it and the activity levels of its users. With over 350 million active members spending an average of 55 minutes a day on the site, that’s a lot of content to review.
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Twitter Not For Sale
Tuesday, den 24. November 2009
Although it seems that much of the current talk around microblogging phenomenon Twitter is about the development of an array of revenue streams, co-founder Biz Stone has denied that the company is for sale.
At an Oxford University event this weekend, Stone categorically denied that Twitter was looking to sell to the likes of Microsoft or Facebook, though he did hint at the potential of following in Google’s footsteps and taking the company public. He told reporters at the event that ‘We are definitely not interested in selling the company’.
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Can Social Networking Sites Be Your Own Personal Link Directory?
Thursday, den 15. October 2009
Continuing our series of pieces on link building through the social web platforms, today we’re going to take a look at social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Can they be used as a link building network, providing valuable inbound link juice, or is it a waste of valuable time and effort? The answer – as with almost everything in the search engine optimisation world – is that it’s a little of both.
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Twitter Becomes UK Leader In Terms Of Growth
Friday, den 26. June 2009
The latest social networking success, Twitter is officially the fastest growing website in the UK according to Hitwise.
The internet analyst company have released their 2009 growth statistics which show the rapid growth of the micro blogging site. Currently the fifth most popular social network, Twitter has benefitted from celebrity exposure, with the likes of Stephen Fry, Lily Allen and Jimmy Carr posting, or ‘tweeting’, regularly allowing fans to keep in touch.
Twitter was ranked 84th most popular site in 2008 and has seen a huge growth in traffic in the last year, jumping 79 places up the chart – Twitter is fast becoming as cool as the iPod, Blackberry, Xbox and indeed Facebook.
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