Facebook To Announce A Skype-Powered In-Browser Video-Chat Feature On July 6

According to TechCrunch, Facebook is going to announce a Skype-powered in-browser video-chat facility for its users on July 6, the day on which the social network invited journalists to attend an event at its campus in Palo Alto. This is supposedly the ‘awesome announcement’ that Mark Zuckerberg had informed would be announced this week, soon [...]

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Over 200 Mn Tweets Posted Every Day On Twitter

Twitter released a new post in its official blog on reaching the milestone of getting 200 million tweets a day. In 2009, just two million tweets happened to be uploaded on Twitter per day. Last year the number was 65 million. Twitter wrote in the post that each day, Twitter users write a 10 million [...]

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Twitter Launches Initiative To Reach Out To Journalists, Facebook Answers With A Helpful Note

Twitter has launched a new guide for journalists titled Twitter for Newsrooms (#TfN). Various media houses and professionals use Twitters to source stories stay connected with their audience. #TfN new tool will systematize their efforts. In the official page of #TfN Twitter announces, “We want to make our tools easier to use so you can [...]

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Facebook Experimenting Brand Engagement With New Ad Format

Facebook came up with yet another new idea of leveraging advertisers. Its exclusivity is that brands will directly participate into interactions with users. Advertising Age reported that this new ad unit is called ‘Comments’. The concept was first coined at an AdExpo wherein different agencies took part and were asked to come up with an [...]

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Promoted Tweets Coming Soon To Your Twitter Timeline

The promoted tweets could soon be placed in a user’s timeline by Twitter. As of now, the pattern of paid for tweets’ appearance is similar to that of search engine marketing. These tweets appear in accordance with searches by users. But after the change of placement, they will appear in the stream of tweets which [...]

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When Is It The Best Time To Post On Twitter And Facebook?

A new infographic has been released by Kissmetrics, ‘The Science of Social Timing’. It relates timing with happenings on social networking sites. Kissmetrics mentioned in their blog that this the first installment of a series on timing and social web.
There are some important carry offs from the infographic:

For tweeing, the apt time is 5PM [...]

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LinkedIn Social Ads To Leverage Follows And Recommendations

LinkedIn is going to introduce two new features. In the official blog of the company, Ryan Roslansky wrote, “We’re excited to announce today that we plan to roll out changes to the advertising platform across LinkedIn which will surface actions from your network.” Among the two features, one is called Recruitment ad and the other [...]

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Facebook Pages Of Brands Taken Down For Violating Policies

Facebook has disabled the pages of some brands like Cadbury Bournville, FCUK India, Pizza Hut India etc. The reason shown by Facebook is that the brands disobeyed Facebook’s policies. These companies lure users to like their pages by the help of promotional events administered through the wall. As a punishment, the brands have been denied [...]

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Who Are Savvy Networkers, Men Or Women?

LinkedIn found out that women are savvy networkers in tobacco and ranching industries and men are savvy in cosmetics. That sounds odd, but LinkedIn’s conducted a study, which was based on the names of their users to identify whether it’s a he or she. The results came directly from that study.
The infographic focuses on some [...]

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35.08 Mn Indians Are Active Social Networkers: Global Web Index

Global Web Index, a market research service published an infographic which shows that differences in traditions and culture exist in the web also. A London based consultancy name Trendstream conducted a study about global consumer adoption of the Internet and social media, comprising of six layers of the research in 36 markets.
From each of these [...]

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