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Twitter to go public with value of £7 billion
Twitter could be worth up to £7 billion as the company prepares to go public in 2014 reports guardian.co.uk. The social networking site has been given its rough valuation by specialist financial...
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Facebook trials new Timeline design
Facebook has headed once more to the New Zealand market for its latest Timeline trial, thenextweb.com reports. The social media behemoth, which is based in California, has turned to its New Zealand...
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Twitter revealed to be worth £7 billion
It has been revealed that Twitter is now worth £7 billion, reports wired.co.uk. New York financial firm Greencrest revealed the valuation for the social media content site amid rumours that it will...
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Social media to be ‘more successful’ than online job searches in 2013
A recruitment website has suggested that finding employment via social media profiles will be more popular and successful than traditional internet searches this year, realwire.com writes. Research...
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LinkedIn hits 200 million members worldwide
Professional social network LinkedIn has announced it has reached 200 million user registrations worldwide, with an average user addition rate of two per second. Reported by techcrunch.com, the social...
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Manchester City top Twitter league table
Manchester City are top of the Premier League, albeit in Twitter engagement terms. The club, which took the actual league title last season, have been named in the top position of the so-called...
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Facebook allows you to message Mark Zuckerberg for $100
Facebook will let you message its boss Mark Zuckerberg for $100 according to searchenginewatch.com. The new move has been explained by Facebook as an ‘extreme’ test to ‘see what works to filter spam’....
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TweetDeck could be on the brink of closure
TweetDeck could be forced to close after repeatedly failing to file its financial accounts, londonlovesbusiness.com reports. The tool, which is used to collate tweets into different verticals, was...
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Twitter launches index to track Oscars hype
Twitter has launched a new Twitter Index that will track conversations about the Oscars in the run up to the 85th Academy Awards according to thedrum.com. This method of Twitter marketing will be...
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Jobseekers turning to social media for vacancies
A number of jobseekers are now turning to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn as part of the job-hunting process. That’s according to social job search engine Adzuna, cited by...
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Twitter crucial to developing bond of trust, claim CEOs
CEOs have been advised to use Twitter as a useful tool for building trust between their company and the people they wish to reach. Cited by holmesreport.com, a study from PR firm Weber Shandwick...
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Twitter unveils Vine video sharing service
Twitter has rolled out ‘Vine’, its video sharing service that allows users to upload six-second clips to the site, telegraph.co.uk reports. Touted as the video equivalent of a tweet, the clips...
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Hospitality and leisure using social media to aplomb
A number of hospitality and leisure operators generate up to half of their sales through social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and Google+. That”s according to new research from Barclays,...
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Hospitality and leisure sector benefits from social media marketing
Over one in ten businesses in the hospitality and leisure sector are generating 50 per cent or more of their sales from social media, enforbusiness.com reports. New research from high street bank...
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‘Brand Vines’ start to appear on Twitter
Short videos have started to appear on Twitter following on from the launch of the Vine service at the end of last week. Urban Outfitters, The Daily Beast, Gap, MSNBC, BuzzFeed and Confused.com are...
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HMV redundancies revealed live on Twitter
Employees of the high-street brand HMV used Twitter to confirm they were being sacked today (January 31st), sky.com reports. They live-tweeted the event via the brand’s official Twitter page, under...
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Twitter overtakes Facebook and Google Plus as fastest-growing social network
New statistics show that Twitter is now the fastest growing social media site. According to the Global Web Index, which conducted a study across 31 markets, the social media content site grew by 40...
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Twitter wins Super Bowl bout with Facebook 26 – 4
Twitter romped home to a victory over Facebook in terms of advertising during Sunday night’s Super Bowl, telegraph.co.uk reports. The social network, which was recently dubbed the world’s fastest...
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Virtually all Facebook users return to site after “extended break”
A new study from the Pew Research Center suggests the majority of of Facebook users take an “extended break” from the site, but very few leave altogether. Around two thirds (61 per cent) of the...
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Facebook developing new tracking app
Facebook is developing a new tracking app, according to zdnet.com. The new technology will allow smartphone users of the social media content site track the location of other users – alerting them...
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