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5 Billion Tweets for Twitter

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Twitter recently announced that it’s popular microblogging service had sent it’s five billionth tweet! That’s 5,000,000,000 messages!

If you have been living under a rock and don’t know what a Twitter or Tweet is than go over and check them out.

Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to keep all of your followers (read friends and business colleagues) up to date with your latest thoughts and musings. It’s also a great tool for promoting your business, but it has to be used in the right way.

Blatent advertising or “commercial spam” often leads to your account being banned – the folks at Twitter have a low tolerance for in your face advertising because that’s not what it’s about.

If you want more information on learning how to use Twitter, Facebook and other Social Platforms for your business marketing, then contact us.

Social Networks Top Reason for Mobile Web

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OperaAccording to Opera, the top reason people are buying mobile devices that can surf the web are for using them on Social Networking sites such as Loconut, Facebook and Bebo.

The Norway-based software firm - which says its mobile browser, Opera Mini, is the world’s most popular - studied the Internet habits of more than 44 million Opera Mini users worldwide and reports there are major differences in how people use the mobile Web. Opera says it looked at aggregated data.

Worldwide, some 40 percent of mobile Web traffic heads to social networks and one-fourth to content portals or search engines, Opera said. In the United States, South Africa and Indonesia, 60 percent of mobile Web traffic clicks lead to social networks.

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The Value of User Generated Content

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Kenneth Corbin from Internet News recently wrote the following article on Internet Entrepreneurs and Social Networking sites like Perth’s very own Loconut:

It seems clear enough that the phenomenon of user-generated content (UGC) on the Internet has built enough momentum that it can no longer be thought of as a fad.

Yet the matter of how to make money from the galaxy of blogs, images and videos that people create and share in online communities is far from resolved.

And it grows all the more urgent to find an answer, as ever-larger mountains of venture capital are poured into start-ups built around the social and self-authoring features now widespread on the Web.

Not surprisingly, hearing entrepreneurs, investors and marketers grope for an answer to “What’s your business model?” many industry watchers are beginning to wonder whether the giddy wellspring of UGC plays is setting up the tech world for another spectacular collapse.

“UGC has prompted an investment gold rush to rival that of the dot-com explosion of the mid-1990s,” said media attorney Jeff Liebenson during a panel discussion here at New York’s Harvard Club, where executives from various corners of the interactive media world debated the issue.

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Social Networking is the new Media Company

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Alexander Wolfe from Information week recently posted a very interesting article about Social Networking and Web 2.0. You can read the original article here, or keep reading the excerpt below.

The way in which we read and create websites is changing rapidly and the bar for minimum standards is constantly being raised. Customers expect user friendliness and interactivity – not just a static site from which they get your business phone number.

Alexander wrote:

“Remember, you read it here first. Wolfe’s three laws of the brave new Web 2.0 world are: Mobile is the new desktop, the home page is dead, and social networks like Facebook and MySpace presage the media company of the future. These catchy Web 2.0 catch-phrases popped into my head during a heavy week of session-sitting at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Here’s why I’m optimistic that those of us who are ready to embrace the virtual future are going to be in for a fun ride.

These aphorisms are part of my attempt to make sense of the rapidly shifting playing field, in which those of us who’ve spent the last several years ramping up our blogging efforts — and patting ourselves on the virtual back for being in the forefront of the new-media revolution — find all of a sudden that we’re no longer quite so cutting edge.

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