Category Archives: Social Media Monitoring

Twitter Spam is So Hot Right Now – Ugh.

We recently posted about Facebook Spam and how it affects both users and marketers, [note: since that post I've been friended by about 6 fake profiles...]. The other obvious fakery invading our digital lives is all too apparent. From direct links to multi-lingual pornographic content, to the full gambit of phishing attacks, and even law
Posted in Digital Word of Mouth, Social Media Monitoring, Social Network Analysis

75% Positive Sentiment on Healthcare in the Blogosphere

Like many of us inside the beltway here in DC – you may be glued to your TV, twitter streams and social media monitoring tools trying to gulp down some of the information coming at us about health care reform. Leaving my personal views aside, I thought it might be interesting to gauge the general [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Monitoring

Facebook Demographics and Statistics Report 2010 – 145% Growth in 1 Year

We’ve been granularly tracking Facebook’s Growth since October 2007, which at the time it had a mere 20 million US users. Today it has over 103 million US based users. The following data shows the growth rates of various user bases in Facebook over the one year period from 1/4/2009 to 1/4/2010. All data comes [...]
Posted in Social Media Marketing, Social Media Monitoring, Social Network Analysis

Top 15 Most Shared Content on the Web in 2009

I’m a big fan of Clearspring, which is a DC based widget platform and social ad network. We’ve been building widgets using their technology for a couple years (lots of examples here). What most people don’t know is that they own a super awesome piece of technology called AddThis as well – which allows publishers [...]
Posted in Digital Word of Mouth, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Monitoring...

Facebook Crushes Twitter for Michael Jackson News Sharing by 500%

The purpose of this post isn’t to analyze the virality of Michael Jackon’s death, but to look at the comparative virality of social platforms purely from a users perspective. This nifty little graphic was provided to me by fellow DC Tech Titan and uber-community manager Justin Thorp of Clearspring/Add This. It simply shows what social [...]
Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Digital Word of Mouth, Interactive Strategy...