SocialMediaNews

MySpace is gradually introducing users to new profile pages in an effort to reduce the clutter of the old design. Sean Percival, MySpace's vice president of onlin...

The Approval Rating of BP and Obama, By Way of Twitter

This week BP successfully recapped its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Test results are favorable and show that oil and gas are, for the time being, confined. This ne...

Local Merchants Utilizing Social Media More as Confidence Remains Flat

This week, MerchantCircle shared the results of its "Merchant Confidence Index," in which about 10,000 local merchants shar...

MySpace Redesigns Profile Pages

MySpace has long been criticized for poor design and as part of a turnaround effort, the struggling social networker has finally done something...

MySpace Acquires Threadbox Assets, Team

MySpace's messaging interface may soon take a turn for the better - and/or the Facebook-like. Late yesterday, MySpace acknowledged that it's acquiring the assets and team...

eBay Launches Social Media Seller Initiative

eBay sellers who use Twitter and Facebook on a regular basis might soon receive a bit of recognition for their efforts. Something called the eBay Ink Social Media Seller p...

Twitter’s @earlybird Starts Offering Deals

Last week, Twitter announced its new @earlybird account, designed to provide...

Study: Just 2% Of Marketers Disregard Facebook

It's a very rare marketer who believes he (or she) can ignore Facebook, according to new data from SeeWhy. SeeWhy found in a recent study that more than three-quarters of...

Facebook Details Mobile Strategy

Facebook has plans to expand its mobile strategy and become a platform for developers to distribute apps, according to Erick Tseng, Facebook head of mobile products....

Twitter Users Are More Social And Politically Active

Americans who use Twitter are more likely than the average adult to be highly active on the Internet and in their communities, according to new survey by Gfk MRI....

Microsoft Achieves Facebook-Outlook Integration

Checking one's email and signing into a social network are similar acts, allowing a person to catch up with friends and colleagues. Microsoft's latest move seems both smar...

Reddit Taking Donations for Reddit Gold (and Gettting Them)

Update: Reddit is already calling the effort a triumph and says, "We're getting a muc...

More Consumers Using Facebook And Twitter For Brand Engagement

Nearly 40 percent of consumers visit Facebook and Twitter to supplement the news, information or deals they receive via email marketing, according to a new study by ExactTarget....

TwitVid Launches SocialAds to Help Brands Gain Followers, Retweets

Twitter advertising is becoming big business, and not just for Twitter. As Twitter works on building its...