SocialMediaNews

Facebook and Twitter continue to chalk up impressive gains in terms of attracting unique audiences. A new report from Nielsen frames their growth on a year-over-year basis...

GamePoints Centralizes Virtual Currency for Facebook and Other Gaming Apps

Offerpal Media, a company that provides virtual currency monetization for developers of social media gaming apps, has launched a new destination for consumers to earn, buy, mana...

RealNetworks Launches Social Gaming Platform

RealNetworks games division has introduced GameHouse Fusion, a social gaming platform giving users access to socially connected games across multiple social networks and devices...

Social Network Users Posting Too Much Personal Information

More than half (52%) of social network users in the U.S. have posted personal information such as their full birth date which can make them vulnerable to cyber attacks, accordin...

Twitter Shows Embeddable Tweet Example

Update: Twitter has made an update to tha post saying, "No, really. It’s very simple. Just a snippet of code you’ll be able to...

MySpace Names New Chief Privacy Officer

Social Media privacy has been the center of much attention, particularly since Facebook...

Facebook Exciting Publishers with Increased Referrals

After just a week, 50,000 sites across the Web had already implemented the new...

Facebook Enters Stickers-For-Businesses Game

The storefront windows of tech-savvy businesses may be getting rather crowded before long. Perhaps following the example set by "People love us on Yelp" stickers...

Study Finds Twitter Matches Facebook In Awareness

Twitter isn't some strange new thing anymore, according to a fresh report. In fact, if you reference "Twitter" in front of someone, the odds of you getting a str...

Half Of People On Social Networks Use Their Real Name

Just over half (51%) of the people on social networks use their real name, according to a new survey by Opinion Research and sponsored by Chubb Insurance. The sur...

LinkedIn Gets Major Upgrade in Usefulness

LinkedIn has introduced a new "Follow Company" feature as a way to (you guessed it) follow companies on LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn users can simply follow organizations to...

Addressing The Problem Of Bullying On Facebook

Yesterday, Tony Orsini, my son's middle school principal sent a blunt letter to all parents telling us that we should ban social networks for our middle school children. I was...

Foursquare, The Next Social Up-And-Comer

It’s funny how early adoption works and how you start to see recurring patterns. When I started using Twitter there were num...