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Twitter Users Aren't Interested in Supporting Your Brand
Bad news, Evil Corporations: Twitter tweeps aren't your shills! A study by digital marketing agency 360i reveals that only a sliver of consumer tweets forward branding messages. It notes that "more than 90-percent of tweets originate from consumers ... Read more →
Facebook Accidentally Deletes Palin's Anti-Mosque Post, Promptly Apologizes
8 days ago on SwitchedShare A few days ago, Republican prizefighter Sarah Palin posted a Facebook note titled 'An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground.' In the statement, Palin railed against a proposal to build a new mosque near the site of the World Trade Center in ...
Fake Facebook Femme Fatale Gathered Info From Intelligence Insiders
9 days ago on SwitchedIf you were meandering around Facebook or LinkedIn, and happened to stumble across the profile of a woman named Robin Sage, you'd probably be impressed. She attended a prestigious New England prep school, got a degree from MIT and, judging from her ...
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Make 'Simpsons' Cameo This Fall
9 days ago on SwitchedIt can be argued that the true measure of celebrity is whether or not a person has made a cameo on 'The Simpsons.' After all, just look at a few of the names who've appeared on the show during its 21-year-run on Fox. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...
Cow Clicker: The Facebook Anti-Game
9 days ago on SwitchedWhether you love or hate 'FarmVille' and its Facebook-game brethren, you can't deny their reach or their influence on how we play today. Enter video game designer and critic Ian Bogost and his new Facebook app 'Cow Clicker,' a meta-game that pares ...
Twitter Happier: Scientists Track Tweets to Trace National Moods
10 days ago on SwitchedTwitter's 140-character format may limit how much users can reveal about themselves, but, according to a group of computer scientists from Northeastern University, our casual tweets may contain enough information to reveal how we're truly feeling. ...
'Ex-Blocker' Helps Erase Heartbreak From the Internet
10 days ago on SwitchedShare As the Swedes of yore so sagaciously proclaimed, "Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go." Those perky blondes were right. The untangling of lives, from reclaiming your teenaged Liz Phair shirt to changing your relationship ...
Meet AJ, the Ford Fiesta That Tweets
10 days ago on SwitchedAJ is a lime green, decal-bedecked 2011 Ford Fiesta. Like HAL from '2001,' he has his own man-made intelligence, and thus the gendered pronoun. He's been making his way around the country, sending messages to anyone who will listen. You see, AJ is ...
French Politicians Ban Twitter From Heated Legislative Debate
11 days ago on SwitchedThis week, all French eyes are on the country's Parliament, where lawmakers have just begun discussing a "controversial" new law that would raise the French retirement age from 60 to an outlandish 62. (Sacré bleu!) The proposed legislation, ...
Best Twitter Apps for iPhone
11 days ago on SwitchedDuring the iPhone's nascent stages, users had limited choices when it came to Twitter applications. But now, there are myriad services that allow you to blast 140-character tweets, and keep up with your buddies, too. So now, the problem is ...
Facebook Even More Reviled Than the IRS, Study Says
11 days ago on SwitchedShare Everyone hates the IRS. And, when it comes to universal loathsomeness, Facebook ranks even lower. According to results from the 2010 American Customer Survey Index (ACSI), Mark Zuckerberg's social networking goliath scored a 64 out of a ...
Businesses Aren't Using Social Networks as Much as They Should, Study Says
11 days ago on SwitchedIn theory, social media is the new frontier of contemporary business, a new forum where corporations and consumers can interact and converse with greater ease than ever before. A new report, however, says that most companies still aren't using social ...
Dying on Facebook Is More Complicated Than It Seems
12 days ago on SwitchedShare Last month, more than 6 million senior citizens joined Facebook, representing the fastest-growing age demographic among the site's entire membership base. With this surge in elderly users, though, comes a surge in dying users -- something ...
'FrontierVille' Attracts 20 Million Digital Settlers
14 days ago on SwitchedIn the biggest digital migration since folks moved down on the farm, millions of "pioneers" have hitched their covered wagons and moved West in search of new online lives. According to USA Today, since its June 9th launch, 20 million gamers have ...
Facebook Page Pays Tribute to Raoul Moat, Fallen U.K. Murderer
15 days ago on SwitchedJust a few days after being released from prison, 37-year-old Raoul Moat, of Newcastle, UK, shot his ex-girlfriend, killed her new boyfriend and blinded a police officer. The ensuing nationwide manhunt finally came to a close last Saturday, when Moat ...
MySpace Profile Redesign in the Works, Welcomes Site to Post-2005
15 days ago on SwitchedIf any of you out there still use MySpace, you'll be excited to know that MySpace is getting its first significant makeover in ages, according to Mashable. Taking cues from Facebook, and its own MySpace Lite experiment, the new MySpace profiles ...
