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Deciding which social platforms to focus on and which ones to abandon is a tough choice for businesses today. We take a look at the facts and help website owners make a good decision for 2013, besides: an informed choice will yield results that are directly proportional. Attributed to our own SiteTrail analysis platform and [...]
January 31st, 2013 by SiteTrail
These days it is so easy to get a presence online without breaking the bank or the need for very advanced technical skills. Thanks to the coding brilliance of hard core programmers, ordinary mortals like us can slap a website together in minutes. One such tool for doing just that is WordPress, the CMS engine [...]
January 9th, 2013 by Anthony West
A few weeks ago Dick Costolo gave a talk at Michigan State University during which he promised that by December Twitter users would be able to download their tweets. ““By the end of the year I’ve already promised this, so the engineers – when I promised it publicly they’re already mad at me so they [...]
January 4th, 2013 by Anthony West
Twitter finally seems to be growing. After years of promise, the micro-blogging platform finally looks set to reach some of its goals—though some of the loftier ones are far off. Social media and games has certainly been a huge hit this century. Just days after Dick Costolo made good on his promise to make tweets [...]
December 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Mitt Romney must be looking on with Amazement as the Pope fires up his Twitter account and begins his campaign to amass followers. The pontiff and his PR team unveiled the official Twitter profile for Pope Benedict XVI on Monday and barely a day after going live the devoted faithful have logged on and started [...]
December 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Twitter users who are keen on storing their activity on Twitter offline will be able to do so by the end of the year. This is the bold promise made recently by the company’s eccentric CEO, Dick Costolo who gave a talk at the University of Michigan. Costolo was speaking at the university’s Ford School [...]
November 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Social media needs as much proof of efficacy as possible given the inherent flaws in its way of operating and this isn’t lost on Twitter who has just revealed the findings of a study detailing how brands can benefit from using the platform. The study was conducted in conjunction with Compete.com, the popular marketing and [...]
November 21st, 2012 by Anthony West
Innocent Israeli and Palestinian websites are affected: You couldn’t make it up if you tried; what has started as small scale use of social media and the internet to propagandize a conflict has now become a full scale cyber war. Israel and its defense force have been stepping up its blow-by-blow coverage on Hamas, while [...]
November 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s official, as a propaganda tool, Twitter is the perfect platform. The micro-blogging platform was pivotal in fomenting revolutionary fervor among populations across the Arab world and so it as only matter of time before it was used again on a wider political scale. This time though, it’s been used to spread propaganda during a [...]
November 16th, 2012 by Anthony West
The Republican Party is still busy picking up the pieces from the devastating loss of their man Romney to Obama and right now there’s confusion over what went wrong. Some are saying the party needs changing to reflect the ‘face’ of the electorate in America; others are saying Mitt wasn’t conservative enough. We’ll probably never [...]
November 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Here we go again. Twitter obviously hasn’t tightened security enough and yet again, users are being asked to change their passwords. By some reports the emails are not going to everyone, and there’s some confusion surrounding the authenticity of the emails. Needless to say though, enough people are concerned about the security breach and several [...]
November 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
Twitter – and television media, may have been intended for positive purposes and spreading important news, now that is not always the case as we can see from the latest rift between Mr. Trump and his foes: It started by NBC hosting a message he did not like much: Just as we thought Donald Trump [...]
November 8th, 2012 by SiteTrail
Obama’s victory tweet the most retweeted message yet: Following President Obama’s re-election, his team sent out a tweet containing the following message: “This happened because of you. Thank you” and another: “Four more years” It was indeed a short message, to the point, containing what his supporters would have seen as the crux of the [...]
November 7th, 2012 by SiteTrail
The Democrats under Obama have made social media a vehicle for gaining political capital; the Republicans under Romney have finally worked out that the internet exists, and that there is even such a thing as Twitter. Indeed both election contenders this year can be said to be savvy, even with the varying degrees of understanding [...]
November 6th, 2012 by Anthony West
Twitter reached a record number of tweets per day: According to the CEO, Dick Costolo. He was speaking at the Internet Advertising Bureau’s Engage conference in London UK. The previous update consisted of a report stating that Twitter at the time had around 400 million tweets per day. An interesting question at the conference should [...]
October 27th, 2012 by SiteTrail
If you are having trouble getting your tweets to go through it’s probably because you are one of the millions of people still using Internet Explorer 8. The question is why?! Twitter became of aware of the issue recently and like most smart social platforms it offered the most logical and sensible advice possible: “switch [...]
October 27th, 2012 by Anthony West
Microsoft has been busy updating the Xbox marketplace and has come full circle with its inclusion of Internet Explorer, version 9 of which has now been added to the list of apps available to gamers. But any gamer will notice the glaring omission of Facebook and Twitter—two apps which 99% of gamers would have accessed [...]
October 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
More and more people are using social platforms to do things beyond chatting with their friends and family so it was only a matter of time before retailers take the sale to them directly. The rise of ‘social commerce’ has been fraught with difficulties in the last few years, but thanks to new numbers it [...]
October 23rd, 2012 by Anthony West
