Chinese actress Yao Chen has just passed the 10 million follower mark on Sina Weibo, China’s most popular microblogging platform. It means that Yao Chen, aged 32 (here’s her Weibo page), is fast approaching the 12 million count of followers of the singer Lady Gaga on Twitter. With 195 million Chinese now on various microblog sites - such as those from Tencent and Netease - it’s possible that Ms Chen could become the world’s most followed tweeter by the end of the year. This microblogging milestone passed with only a small acknowledgment by ...
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Chinese Actress Yao Chen Passes 10 Million Weibo Followers, Closing In On Lady Gaga
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There are Billions of Tweets Per Month
Twitter is growing rapidly and it’s evident that it is becoming one of the world’s more important social networking sites. As recently announced, these 145 million users contribute billions of tweet per day, reflecting high user engagement within the Twitter community. Twitter’s user base may be far lower than what Facebook has, but several studies have concluded that Twitter is preferred social tool for businesses, especially among the fortune 500 companies. The chart shows a steady growth in the volume of tweets despite being a relatively young company. The Twitter team ...
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Only 16% of Brands’ Tweets Are Conversational
How many times have you heard from marketers, bloggers and public relations practitioners to engage your followers on Twitter by adopting a more personal kind of approach? I bet you’ll lost count trying to figure out the exact figure. However, it’s apparent that most brands are still not getting the message according to eMarketer’s report. Most brands on the 140 character social networking platform are only pushing out regular news and information about themselves; even worst, some are using web feeds to do it. Through the latter, there are almost zero conversations ...
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NASA Astronaut Tweets From Space
Twitterverse just got a whole lot bigger. NASA astronauts are now equipped with the technology to tweet from space. Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer is the first astronaut to make use of this new system. He sent out his first tweet unassisted on Friday from the space station. Tweets from space used to be e-mailed to the ground before they are posted by support personnel to the astronauts’ Twitter accounts. This is all thanks to a new software upgrade, which takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station to allow astronauts ...
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Twitter To Deliver Several Billion Tweets An Hour
"Billion" is what Twitter's looking at for the new year. According to Twitter Co-Founder, Biz Stone, Twitter would be ready to deliver "several billion tweets per hour to users around the world." Also, it is expecting to serve "a billion search queries a day." Before you choke on the huge number presented, remember that Twitter used the word, "deliver". That means, if you have 1000 followers and you sent out a tweet, that would be counted as 1000 tweets delivered. If you are interested in the total number of twitter messages tweeted ...
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