According to Twitter, there were 8 billion tweets about Wimbledon during the just-concluded event. (I accounted for 72 of them). Not surprisingly, the most tweeted players were Serena Williams, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray. ...
Reddit.com turned 10 years old today. And to celebrate the popular social sharing community (AKA The Front Page of the Internet) released a bunch of stats about their history. Since launch, there have been: * 16,063,942,290 upvotes (and 2,563,574,752 downvotes) * 1,715,454,785 comments (.36% of which mention cats) *...
The little search engine that could, DuckDuckGo, says it's usage is up 600% since the NSA was hit with privacy concerns some two years ago. “We’re doing about three billion searches a year,” CEO Gabe Weinberg told CNBC, “so we’re already pretty mainstream.” Mainstream? Well, that depends. How...
Twitter announced today that timelines will now feature autoplay videos. That means native videos to twitter like vines and GIFs will automatically begin to play as you scroll your timeline. That of course also comes with audio! So get ready to adjust your volume. Why the change?...
Facebook announced yesterday a new feature called "Instant Articles". What is it? When viewing your newsfeed on mobile, instead of clicking a news link that takes you to the source website (away from Facebook) causing, on occasion, excessive load times, the click will "instantly" slide the...
Twitter finished its first day of trading on November 7, 2013 at $44.90. After a lackluster earnings released Tuesday, Twitter opening trading today at $40.22. For a "growth stock" that's a return of about 11%! The problem for Twitter per their earnings release was a shortfall...
Last month Google announced a big algorithm change in their mobile search starting on April 21. Well, that day is here. So what's it mean for webmasters? - Google will favor sites with "mobile friendly" pages on their mobile search only. If you are not mobile friendly,...
As Google continues their expansion into profitable search niches, why not travel? Well, Google Flights has been around a while and yesterday they posted what amounted to an ad for their service, which few know about. So I'll highlight here. I find it much quicker than...
In a new study from Stone Temple, twitter users can double their engagement by embedding media content. It's no real surprise, but it's nice to see some actual numbers. Stone Temple analyzed 4 million tweets and came away with this engagement numbers, among others: They also went...
In a new post today, Facebook announced that they will continue to filter promotional, ad-type of posts out of user newsfeeds. As Facebook grows, businesses are constantly trying to push their brand into newsfeeds. Some with success. But mostly users don't like it, or so Facebook...