A Philadelphia city councilman is spending $28,000 in taxpayer money 140 characters at a time. The Philadelphia Daily News (http://bit.ly/HTOwa4) reports Councilman Jim Kenney is paying an outside contractor $28,800 to send Twitter and Facebook updates on his behalf. The 53-year-old Kenney says... Read more...
Note: This post was originally published on Inc and has been reprinted here with permission. If you’re just using Twitter to lurk, you can stop reading now: This advice does not pertain to you. But if you intend to use Twitter for any sort of marketing, whether for yourself or your company,... Read more...
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these *ss-f*cks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social ... Read more...
Apple and Google activated a record breaking number of mobile devices this Christmas, according to Flurry analytics, which delivers mobile analytics to developers. Flurry has 140,000 apps running its software, and believes it can track every new Android or iOS device activated. Between December 1... Read more...
We’ve heard time and again how time-consuming Facebook can be. Nevertheless, I always find the statistics mind-blowing: Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to the latest data from Nielsen. How does this compare to other websites? Well, American... Read more...
Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories. Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, a... Read more...
Above is a twitpic Amber Cole posted of her report card at 3am October 17th, 2011 By: Spit ( @iamnotarapper58 ) Amber Cole (@DaRealAmberCole), per her twitter account has "Created a twitter to clear my name..." & that she is also "NOT A HOE! I AM JUST YOUR AVERAGE GIRL....... 14..fem... Read more...
Billboard's Twitter 140: It's not about how many followers. It's not about the quantity of tweets/retweets. It's about quality. Personality. Excellent linkage. These people are followed by those who work the smartest. Whether it's about copyright, "Entourage," social commerce, the cloud(s), rap radi... Read more...
EPISODE 27: Gary, Indiana's own Freddie Gibbs joins the Hype Men to discuss ESPN's Sports Guy Bill Simmons + his Interscope days + the infamous Complex interview + a failed Funny or Die video with a certain crazy actress + his White audience + wanting to smack up Skip Bayliss + the most embarrassi... Read more...