See the live stream of President Obama answering tweets. Someone is picking and choosing what he’s answering, but still pretty cool.

President Obama, twitter, USA politics

Facebook users have surpassed 75 million! This is the estimated size of the world population in 1750 or the estimated rural population in China in 2006. Which ever way you compare it, it’s a huge number.
Facebook have also launched Skype Chat.

facebook, population, skype

Enjoy this very attactive visual that illustrates just how much can be achieved on line in a mere sixty seconds at the most popular online destinations; facebook, twitter, firefox, word press, ask.com and many more. The visual was found here.

ask.com, facebook, fire fox, twitter, word press

The value has increased from $2.5 billion estimates in January! The shares would be priced in the $32 - $35 range.
IPO, linkedin

The US 2012 presidential nomination campaign has started. The delivery of choice for annoucements is social media with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter all featuring heavily.
President Barack Obama’s team announced his candidacy intentions with a YouTube endorsement video, select text and emails. His team is supporting his reelection campaign with many digital and mobile […]

There seems to be a constant theme appearing in all the top tips for successful social networking - engagement with the audience. Communication must be both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ - two way. Ask by all means, but give too.
Leah Betancourt of Mashable has an straightfoward five point plan for making your twitter profile […]

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 […]

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

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. […]