2005: social media? About five years after its launch, last Sunday evening, You Tube announced that they are now receiving two billion hits per day. On their official blog they wrote: Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with …
Tag Archives: Social Media
On why Gordon Brown calling Gillian Duffy ‘a bigot’ sparked a perfect social media story
The perils of going out for a loaf of bread in Rochdale Yesterday was an unusual day and one that Gordon Brown will never forget. Personally, I feel quite sorry for him. You can accuse him of being short-tempered, autocratic and blinkered if you will, but one thing that I don’t think Gordon Brown is, …
Digital directions and social media life expectancy
Making sense of it all I’ve begun 2010 thinking a little about social media shelf life and the longevity of digital publications. Just how long will someone last on a particular social media site before they abandon it? How long could/should/might a blog trundle on? These, I think, are interesting questions. We’re always told how …
Politics and Social Media
I’ve already written about paid search and politics, but a far more obvious digital tool for politicians over the next few months is social media. It’s an obvious and efficient way of politicians (and budding politicians) engaging with their constituents or target audiences to get their message across. Some good examples being: Ed Fordham’s website …
Social Media Profiles
Digital You A short post, but a useful one (I hope). Any digital identity needs consistency and coherence. So whenever we have a new starter at work I always ask them to secure their online profiles across the most important social media sites. But which ones? Um. These, I reckon: 1. WordPress (importantly) 2. Tumblr …
Numbers and Social networking
Adding Up Here’s some maths for a Friday morning: I’ve got a 246 ‘friends’ (their word) on Facebook. So far this year I’ve interacted with 14 of them. (5.69%) I follow 102 people on Twitter, of which, I’ve interacted with 28 in the last two months. That’s just above a quarter. Now, let’s compute this …