Each negative comment could cause a business to lose 30 potential consumers. But what’re the chances that people would speak badly about brands? According to a research by Harris Poll, the chance seems pretty high. 26% of the social media users surveyed indicated that they use social media to express dissatisfaction with a company, brand or product. Thankfully, 23% of the social media users also use social sites as an outlet to support the companies, brands or products they like, highlighting social media as a double edge sword. It was also found ...
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As what people like to say, if Facebook were a country, it would have been the third largest population in the world. If that's not impressive enough, it is still growing at an alarming rate. Even without the help from China (Facebook is blocked over there), Facebook usage is seeing an increasing trend in the Southeast Asia region. US Monthly Active Users Facebook reached 100.5 million monthly active users in US, making the country the first to cross the 100 million mark. That also means nearly 1/3 of the US population are logging into ...
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byWillis WeeinUncategorized
We know that Twitter is facing a stagnant growth in terms of unique visits, but in terms of users? Seems like the chart from BusinessInsider is able to help answer the question. From what it seems, the number of active users are increasing but the number of people joining Twitter is as stagnant as its web traffic. What should Twitter do to solve its slow inception? Would its new API, that allows new users to sign up via a 3rd party application or website help?
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