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We don't want to beat a dead horse regarding how hot Twitter is, but the data from an independent tweet-counting service is so compelling we just had to share.

posted by ITworld staff | Opinion | Internet | 10/21/09 at 4:24 pm | social media, Twitter


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Social media looms large in email study

Don't you hate it when perfectly good hypotheses are proven wrong? The media measurement folks at Nielsen had just such an experience when they postulated that increased social network use would decrease email use. But that's not what happened, at least according to Nielsen's quick 'n dirty review of the data. VP of Media Analytics Jon Gibs explains the methodology:

posted by ITworld staff | Opinion | Internet | 09/30/09 at 8:55 pm | email, social media


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Card.ly provides free social media 'business card'

Here's a service lets you gather all your social media and RSS feeds into one tidy online business card.

posted by pasmith | News | Internet | Personal tech | 08/05/09 at 7:13 am | card.ly, social media


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Bing adds Twitter posts to search results

Microsoft on Wednesday started adding some Twitter posts into Bing search results, gaining a bit of a leg up on competitors even though the capability is limited.

posted by ITworld staff | News | Internet | Tech & society | 07/01/09 at 7:35 pm | Bing, social media, Twitter


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News sites falter as traffic spikes after Jackson's death

Michael Jackson's death on Thursday caused a spike in visits to news Web sites that affected the performance and availability of some of the biggest ones, according to Web monitoring company Keynote Systems.

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