Facebook has reached 500 million users – You learnt about this either on news, or from the newspapers (if you read one) or on one of your favorite blogs or from Facebook.com itself. So where have these million of new users come from? According to an article on the O’Reilly blog, Africa is the fastest [...]

An increasing number of human resources professionals are making use of social media websites to recruit new people to their organization. According to a study conducted by Jobvite, 2010 will see 46% more social recruiting as compared to 2009. Consequently 36% of these HR managers are likely to reduce their time on job boards. The [...]

Twitter has for long been dominated by North Americans. For instance, in March 2010, USA contributed to 30% of tweets worldwide. However, the number of tweets has been seen to be on a declining growth in the North American region for sometime. Now, a fresh study by French research firm, Semiocast, North America is no [...]

Even though a lot of companies have taken up to social media, the metrics needed to measure the success of a social media campaign still isn’t largely clear. Oglivy PR rightly claims that it is not the fancount that matters but several other factors – including Facebook likes, new fans vs. removed fans, positive/negative comments [...]

Twitter is now the 12th most popular site on the web. This is remarkable for a site that has failed to show consistent growth over the past few months. Also, unlike most other websites, Twitter’s growth is only partially visible. Several regular users access the site via third party clients masking the actual growth. As [...]

In some parts of the world, location based services like Foursquare and Gowalla are the rage. It is yet to catch on in other areas, but there are encouraging signs that this is the future considering how the segment is growing. Here are the top five location based services in terms of number of registered [...]

LinkedIn may not be the most glamorous social network – It does not have 500 million users like Facebook. But nevertheless, being a business focused networking site, it sure is among the most profitable. In a recent study, 78% of online marketers were revealed to have used the LinkedIn platform for marketing purposes. Considering the [...]

FanPageList is a new site that is dedicated to showcasing the most popular fan pages on Facebook. And surprise, Facebook is the brand with most followers on the website – over 9 million fans. This is interesting because Twitter – for all talk of being a corporate PR platform, does not have even one company [...]

Youtube is five years old and over 2 billion online videos are being watched on the site every single day. It is then no wonder that the most subscribed people on Youtube have consequently turned mini-celebrities with some even moving on to sign deals with other media companies. Here are the most subscribed Youtube channels [...]

YouTube has completed an important milestone – it has completed five years of existence. That’s 3.5 years since the company was acquired by Google and has scaled multifold since then. Today, Youtube videos are streamed over 2 billion times every single day. Isn’t that a testament to the amazing growth that the online video streaming [...]