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This morning, HubSpot released a fresh "State of the Twittersphere" report, and in just about every respect, the news for the site is good, meaning growth has occurred...

Employers Using Social Networks To Screen Employees

As social networking becomes increasingly widespread, more employers are using these sites to screen potential employees. More than half (53%) of employers report...

Content Can Now Go Viral More Easily with Facebook

Over the past year or so, Facebook has made a number of moves, which bring...

Is it OK to Say No to Twitter?

Over the past year or more, you have probably heard your fair share of people telling you that you need to use Twitter if you hope to have business success. It's true that there...

66% of Government Agencies Use Social Networking

A recent study came out this week from the Human Capital Institute and Saba about government organizations' u...

Twitter Helping Haiti Earthquake Victims

Haiti earthquake Twitter updates are helping people keep informed about what is going on in the country as well as providing information on ways to make donations....

Escaped Convict Taunts Police Using Facebook, Gets Arrested

We are always looking for new applications for social media outlets right? How can we get our message out to more people? How can we create community amongst customers? How we c...

MySpace Integrates Facebook Connect Into Website

Rumors of MySpace integrating Facebook Connect have circulated...

Twitter Looks to Connect with More Sites

According to Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, "multiple sources have confirmed" that Twitter is readying the...

Respond to Facebook Comments From Your Email

Today Facebook launched a feature that some would consider long overdue. They now let you reply to comments via email. In other words, when you get an email notification alertin...

Pingdom Names Facebook “Most Engaging Social Network”

Some people use their Facebook account like another email address, logging in, checking their messages, and logging out. Others just add a couple of friends, skim a few st...

Facebook, McAfee Partner

Win-win-win situations don't crop up too often, but Facebook and McAfee seem to have orchestrated one on a very large scale. The two companies announced this morning that...

Facebook Becomes Sponsor Of Apache Software Foundation

Today, the Apache Software Foundation gained a new sponsor: Facebook. Facebook is a gold sponsor, too, which means that the social network expressed its support for open s...

Twitter Sees an Increase in Tweeting Frequency

Each month we've been looking at Twitter's growth in terms of new user registration and number of Tweets. Last month we saw a...

Dissecting Zuckerberg’s Privacy Comments

For many in the online space these days the words “Facebook privacy” would be called an oxymoron. Then of course there would be the usual calling others at Facebook...

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