Mark Zuckerberg bloged on 4th Feb that Facebook had reached 400 million users. Let’s put that in perspective by comparing it to country populations; US population is 308.6 million, Thailand’s population is 68 million, UK population is 61 million and Canada’s population is 34 million. Facebook is not yet India or China, but […]

All growth cycles are just that - they go up, up, up and then down - eventually. Twitter just keeps going up - for now. On the 12th of Jan 40 million tweets were made in 24 hours, helping the site reach it’s monumental announcement of 1.2 billion tweets this Jan. Did […]

The Big Money’s Chad Matlin recently announced the Twitter 12 and explains his selection criteria for choosing 12 American corporations who are getting the most out of Twitter.
The process only considered US corporate Twitter profiles with over a million followers, their growth from September to November 09, the number and regularity of tweets and content […]

Openface is about to issue a 2009 update to the Chairty Benchmark Report, looking at the original 120 charities uptake and participation on Twitter….
How many UK charities do you think use Twitter?
Results coming in December.

Charity Benchmark Report, econsultancy.com, twitter

Thank you Mashable for pointing out that following the Spanish version, Twitter is now available in French. Simply select your language preference in the settings menu.
Bon chance.

en francais, French, settings menu, Spanish, twitter

A reminder to UK charities with an online presence that we still undertake the research for personalised charity benchmark reports.
The reports compare your site to five competitors from our benchmark against the established tried and tested set of criteria. The criteria get’s updated as the industry adapts to more tools, for instance […]

LinkedIn announced yesterday that they have achieved the 50 million registered user mark!
NB Facebook just hit 300 million users.
You can almost picture the adoption curve; on launch in ‘03, it took 477 days for the first million members to join. I remember getting the stamp ‘1st Million User stamp’ for my profile. […]

Facebook announced last week (15th Septebmer 2009) their news that they are ahead of schedule. Instead of becoming cash positive some time in 2010, this has already been achieved in quarter 3 of 2009. User registrations have now surpassed the 300 million mark too.
So what are the income sources? Silicone Alley Insider estimates the […]

Do you need to reference other companies social media campaigns to see what tools they used and what they set out to achieve in order to work out your online strategy? Peter Kim has provided a great list of examples, complied in the last quarter of 2008, so relatively up to date.
‘njoy.

campaigns, mashable, […]

Just come across this golden site that checks if your ‘user name’ is available across popular sites including twitter, technorati, ebay, flickr, smugmug, lastfm and many many more sites.

Usernamecheck.com is so simple to use. Just type in your prefered user name and see if it is still available!
‘njoy

account management, online tools, […]