Amazing activity in the world of social media

Extraordinary counter for social media activity around the world. 270 billion comments on Facebook in the last year. Over 1.5 million hours of video uploaded to YouTube in the last month. 16 million iPhone apps downloaded a day. About 10,000 tweets every second. Fascinating. (HT Big Bible)

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If you printed Twitter – brilliant infographic

Infographic by Cartridge Save for printer cartridges

Posted via web from Tony Watkins

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Twitter, the new shovelware | Media Guardian 10 Sep 09

While newspapers may have flocked to get seen on Twitter, researchers have found that most simply use it to promote their own material.

Academics Marcus Messner and Asriel Eford looked at 180 of the top US newspapers and television stations’ Twitter activity and analysed what was produced.

Presenting the findings at the Future of [...]

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Posting threshold

One of the reasons why my earlier blog failed – probably the most common one – is the threshold for posting to a blog is quite high. It means opening Scribefire, doing some copying and pasting, writing something, categorising it, adding tags and publishing it. The joy of Twitter, I have found in the [...]

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Twitter a risk to health as well as morality? Yikes!

Daily Telegraph 16 April 2009

Physiotherapists and Repetitive Strain Injury sufferers have warned fans of the website to moderate their time on it – or risk it ruining their health.

The calls come just a few weeks after it was announced that the internet phenomenon had now attracted nearly 1.8 million users.

But RSI [...]

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Do Twitter and Facebook pose a moral risk?

Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2009

Today’s fast-paced media could be making us indifferent to human suffering and should allow time for us to reflect, according to researchers.

They found that emotions linked to moral sense are slow to respond to news and events and have failed to keep up with the modern world. . [...]

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