Tag Archives : microblogging

Executives from Facebook, Google and other companies have held talks with Twitter about a possible purchase of the microblogging service, bringing its estimated value to around 10 billion dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. The value is high for a company whose revenues were only $ 45 million last year, posted a loss, and estimated that [...]

The numbers are impressive Tumblr: In a TV interview with TechCrunch, the founder of the microblogging service, David Karp, said the platform grows to 250 million page views each week. Last week, the sites of the service generated a total of 1.2 billion page views in the last thirty days were over 4 billion. According to Karp, it is one of the reasons [...]

China launched its own version of the social network Twitter microblog called “Red Microblog” to connect people and promote the ideals of the communist country, according to the Telegraph. The site is administered by the Propaganda Department of the local city of Chongqing. The website is a new microblogging that are part of the central [...]

According to a research conducted by Professor Johan Bollen, Indiana University, USA, the correlation between the mood swings of users of microblogging and the Dow Jones index was nearly 90%. In reaching a determination, Bollen and his researchers analyzed more than 9.8 million tweets, 2.7 million users between March and December 2008. Once analyzed, [...]

The number of users of the microblogging service Twitter just keeps growing. Created in 2006, the site has 145 million accounts, less than five months after reaching the mark of 100 million entries. The information was released on Thursday (2) by the chief executive, Evan Williams, in a blog post on the official product. He noted particularly the growth [...]

The social networking behemoth, Facebook Inc. will now become a platform for MySpace users to share their posts on. MySpace, one of the few social networking companies that are actively giving competition to Facebook, will now enable its vast user base to synchronize their posts with that of Facebook. This move comes at a time when, MySpace has been [...]

As a way to give more robustness to the service, Twitter announces it will move its operations to a data center itself, designed to meet the demands imposed by the company, which registers about 300,000 new users per day. The announcement came a day after the Twitter experience an interruption in services, which prevented users from connecting or sending [...]

The way we communicate is increasingly without boundaries. Since the Internet started to become popular in the 90s, its influence on the lives of each of us has increased exponentially. The creation of social networking is a great example. Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Buzz are increasingly present in our lives and we can scarcely do [...]

Twitter revealed on Monday that officially reached 50 million tweets per day, excluding the count of spam messages made by robots. And that’s a record for the microblogging service. “The tweets increased by 1400% last year, amounting to 35 million messages daily. Today we have a total of 50 million tweets per day, equivalent to about 600 tweets [...]

Nikon has launched an innovative twitter campaign to promote Nikon D5000 by asking users to upload their videos for Nikon Film Festival contest ‘A day through your lens’ under. The campaign was kick started by Aston Kutcher by simply tweeting and posting link to his short video shot during his recent visit to Africa with wife Demi Moore. A short [...]