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Your Followers Don't Give a Damn About Your Breakfast but They Don't Mind Your Shameless Self-Promotion

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Fri, February 3, 2012 1:00 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Research & Infographics, Twitter · Comments
A quarter of tweets are useless. A third are disliked. Is Twitter a time-sucking void of meaningless garbage? Time-sucking it may be, but meaningless it is not. But the above data is indeed true, according to a new study. Conducted by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts... [more]

A Quick and Easy Way to Find Out Who Your Most Valuable Twitter Follower Is

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Thu, February 2, 2012 2:01 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Twitter · Comments
Ever wondered who the MVP of your Twitterverse was? Now you can find out. A new app called MFV, an acronym for Most Valuable Follower, attempts to extract from your hundreds or thousands of Twitter followers just that person. Even though it's only a couple of days old, the algorithm has... [more]

ADDICTION: Study Finds Social Media to Be Like Smoking Cigarettes

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Thu, February 2, 2012 12:20 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Facebook, Social Media, Research & Infographics, Twitter · Comments
Firing off a tweet or status update is not unlike smoking a cigarette, new research suggests. According to a study conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, social media may be just as addictive as cigarettes and alcohol. Over 200 subjects delivered more than 8,000 reports and the... [more]

Twitter Launches World's Worst Recruiting Campaign [VIDEO]

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Mon, January 30, 2012 2:26 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Twitter · Comments
Twitter is a great place to work and the company wants you to know that. So they went over-budget to create the best—read: worst—recruiting video ever. Oh, and did you know that they're hiring a Unicorn Slayer? [more]

Twitter: Google+ Does Not Concern Us

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Wed, January 25, 2012 7:30 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Google, Twitter · Comments
Twitter has spoken. And Google+ is not on its radar. Co-founder Jack Dorsey spoke at a technology conference yesterday and stated that his company was much more than a social network and that Google's latest bid in the social space was not a concerning issue. Describing Twitter as a personal news service as... [more]

Connexinet: a Canadian Location-Based App Building Success Story

Posted by Dan Verhaeghe on Mon, January 23, 2012 9:08 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Startups, Mobile, Twitter, iPad, Android · Comments
Recently, we put up the 10 most used Android Apps by Canadians. Eighth on that list was Connexinet's Tim Hortons Finder.  Connexinet's founder Samir Al-Battran realized that Canadian mobile app developers were not really building Android apps, so he took it upon himself in his free time over the past couple... [more]

Vancouver's Summify acquired by Twitter

Posted by Rob Lewis on Thu, January 19, 2012 9:31 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Funding & Exits, Twitter · Comments
Vancouver's Summify announced this morning on their blog that they have been acquired by Twitter. Congrats to Romanian co-founders Mircea Pașoi and Cristian Strat (pictured below). Terms of the transaction are not known at this time. Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the... [more]

Half of Canadians Don't Want to Engage with Brands on Social Networks

Posted by Techvibes Newsdesk on Tue, January 17, 2012 1:59 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Facebook, Social Media, Research & Infographics, Mobile, Twitter · Comments
Many Canadians don't really think brands and social networks mix. According to new data from research firm TNS Canada, 54% of Canadians don't want to engage with brands on social networks. Calling it a "digital wasteland" for businesses, TNS vice president Ron Caughlin says that "winning and maintaining brand loyalty is... [more]

How Many Twitter Users Have Over One Million Followers?

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Mon, January 16, 2012 2:49 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Research & Infographics, Twitter · Comments
Some people are happy with 100 followers; others, 1,000. Some don't care at all, while others have dreams of hitting 100,000. Twitter is a vast community, and many of its users are content creators or curators, so it benefits those people to maximize their following. Now over 5 years old... [more]

Google Reacts to Twitter's Response in Civil Manner, but We Know That Blood is Boiling

Posted by Knowlton Thomas on Wed, January 11, 2012 11:00 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, Atlantic-Canada, Okanagan , Social Media, Google, Twitter · Comments
Yesterday, Google announced salient changes to its search engine. Most notably, it placed an emphasis on Google+. We’re […] introducing three new features: 1. Personal Results, which enable you to find information just for you, such as Google+ photos and posts—both your own and those shared specifically with you, that only you... [more]
 
 
 
 

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