A week or so ago, several blogs called out the fact that fan counts and growth were being reported inaccurately by Facebook. Facebook corrected this, it seemed, as our fan count went from 69k to 74k overnight. However, something strange happened again last night. As I logged in to check our fan page late last [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘facebook’
06/30/2010
facebook fan counts get all wonky again
Filed under facebook, fan-pages, marketing, social media
Tags: facebook-pages, facebook-fans, fan-count, glitch, bug
03/02/2010
summary: last week in social 2/22/10
Here’s a few of this past week’s top headlines in the social space. I decided to recap on Mondays because a) I have other things I want to do on Friday’s and b) everyone else does Friday recaps it seems. Overall, a relatively quiet past week with perhaps the biggest announcement being a patent awarded [...]
Filed under facebook, fan-pages, internet, marketing, social media, social-networking
03/02/2010
breaking: facebook introduces promotions for individual status updates
This has the potential to be pretty useful. If you post a coupon, or an advertisement, you can then run an ad promoting that particular piece. This gives users more incentive to click-thru and join, rather than simply asking they become a fan for no specific reason.
Filed under facebook, fan-pages, marketing, public-profiles, social media
02/05/2010
weekly social wrap 2/5/10
This week’s big topic seemed to be Facebook’s 6th birthday, and Foursquare’s rapid adoption by business. A sixth year and a now 400M-strong active user base shows that Facebook is the place business needs to be. Foursquare’s strong showing of a tripled user base in three short months, as well as the launch of a business campaign page, shows that Foursquare is where businesses will need to be in the near future.
The articles below make the case better than I can. I’ve also thrown a few great pieces on CSR, and some thoughtful reflections on social media’s past, present & future.
Filed under business, communication, facebook, fan-pages, internet, marketing, public relations, social media, social-networking, web 2.0
02/03/2010
the state of the internet [infographic]
the state of the internet [infographic]
Filed under communication, facebook, internet, marketing, social bookmarking, social media, web 2.0
Tags: statistics
