Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Twitter, Facebook bring world economies to their knees
January 5th, 2008 • Internet, Social
Tags: facebook, Social, twitter
Nope, it’s not Islamists, the Russians or short-sighted Americans taking unaffordable loans. No, the globe’s financial wiring is being pulled apart by… instant messaging and your online buddies.
OK, so it’s the late noughties version of IM and buddies, but it’s IM all the same. I’ve been monitoring various stories this week concerning the public use and abuse of Facebook and Twitter, mostly prompted by analysts and hacks wondering at the growth and value of the two social web giants.
Pat Phelan over at Roam4Free pulls together a few stats behind Twitter’s usage.
According to @missrogue and @fredericguarino there over 450.000 active users and 750.000 registered users on Twitter and with Twittown suggesting 340,000 accounts in July and a growth figure of 60,000 users per month you can settle on a rough 1 million users.
Never mind what are Twitter costs, whats the cost of Twitter? at Roam4free
Phelan does the maths, and suggests that Twitter use will cost the economy $13.5bn in 2008.
And as I opened The Daily Mail today (excuse: only newspaper in the coffee shop, and I was bored), I was greeted by a two-page scare piece by Radio 4’s John Humphries investigating the new fixation with virtual identities.
Which is my cue to sound like Meldrew: we’ve had this for as long as I can recall, with culprits ranging from Rubik’s Cubes to Elvis. It’s an age-old page-filler on quiet days.
Google to launch Facebook rival
October 16th, 2007 • Google, Search, Social
Tags: facebook, Google, Social
So the search giant is going to unveil its Facebook rival on November 5 (no source here… just a hail of blogosphere noise).I’m wondering what tricks Google has up its sleeve to bring down the social giant. In case they’re still wondering, and happen to be reading this, here are a few ideas:
- Bring every social profile together in one place: YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Facebook, the lot.
- Include an IM client in the Friends interface.
- Include a way of seeing what other people are reading.
- Ensure that you can export everything if you tire of the service
- And running through that list again, you realise just how close Google is to delivering the killer blow.
Has Facebook peaked?
October 11th, 2007 • Social
Tags: facebook, Social
According to Om Malik, the latest comScore figures from the US seem to suggest that the world’s most hyped network is losing audience. So has FB caught the Icarus virus? Not according to Marketing Pilgrim, who say that the exact same dip happened last year - and Facebook duly recovered.
Facebook: a fall is predicted
September 26th, 2007 • Business
Tags: facebook, Social
Marketing Shift has a principal analyst at Ovum foretelling rough times ahead for Facebook. He bases his argument on background legal action by the founder, the potential for identity theft and a possible crack-down on the use of the site in offices.I can see the latter beginning to cut in soon. Facebook profile pages are a common sight on screens as you wander offices these days - usually at lunchtime, admittedly, but you have to wonder how many bosses are running checks on total usage during the working day.Facebook Could Burst Web 2.0 Bubble
Google to ’sort’ Facebook? Outside, now…
September 20th, 2007 • Google, Social
Tags: facebook, Google, Social
Put a tick in your diary for November 5 - TechCrunch claims to have a leak from a secret squirrel briefing held deep within Google, aimed at addressing the “Facebook issue”.
The meeting was so secret that all attendees had to sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements strictly forbidding them from discussing what was shown to them at the meeting. Notwithstanding that NDA, I’ve now spoken with three of the attendees off record to get an understanding of what Google is planning. Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%.
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