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Have you ever found yourself wondering if your Twitter icon could beat another in a pixel battle royale? Sure, we all have at one point or another… but now, thanks to...

Twitter Talks Excessive Service Outages

Twitter has acknowledged its latest increase of outages not only on its status blog (as usual), but o...

Facebook Taking Over The World

Not only has Facebook gathered huge numbers of members –...

Social Media Accounts For 22% Of Time Spent Online

The Web is a vastly more social place now than it was a year ago, according to new data from Nielsen. Double-digit growth occurred in a couple of categories, and at this p...

ForeSee Results Launches Social Media Measurement Tool

ForeSee Results has introduced a "Social Media Value Calculation" tool aimed at helping its clients understand the impact of their social media marketing campaigns on...

Twitter Places Includes Integration with Foursquare, Gowalla

Twitter announced that Twitter Places is now available on Twitter.com and mobile.twiter.com. This is a feature that lets you tag tweets with specific places by sharing your loca...

MTV Looks for its First “TJ” or “Twitter Jockey”

If you are not too young, you may recall when MTV regularly played music videos. There was a time, when that was pretty much all they played. In between the videos, a person cal...

Can You Put a Dollar Amount on a Facebook Fan?

Facebook is bigger than anyone ever imagined it would be, and it's not done growing. Businesses are finding more ways to use it to their benefit, and more people seem to be will...

Promoted Trends May Mean More Ad Revenue For Twitter

Twitter's preparing to take another step away from its revenue-less past, according to a new report. Rumor has it that a fresh "Promoted Trends" feature will com...

EA Sports Launches Free World Cup Game On Facebook

EA Sports said today it has launched a free social soccer game on Facebook to mark the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The game, EA Sports FIFA Superstars...

Twitter Acquires Analytics Company Smallthought Systems

Twitter announced that it has acquired Smallthought Systems, the creators of Dabble DB, an online database Twitter has used in the past to tra...

Truveo Launches Video Search App On Facebook

AOL's video search engine Truveo has launched a new discovery application on Facebook. The new Truveo Facebook app allows users to search a database of videos and...

Facebook And PTA Partner On Internet Child Safety

Facebook is partnering with the National PTA to promote safe Internet use to kids, parents and teachers. The goal of the partnership is to provide information, su...

Twitter Sees Nearly 10% Growth in May

Each month, we look at Twitter's growth in terms of new user registrations, number of tweets, and tweets per user registration. This info is provided by Matthew Daines, the lead...

Zynga Launches Western-Themed Game On Facebook

Zynga, the company behind the popular "Farmville" game has launched a new title on Facebook called "FrontierVille." Zynga describes "Fron...