We have a Facebook movie and it is only fair to have a Twitter movie for Twitter lovers. The Twittamentary is a documentary cum movie, directed by Singapore’s very own filmmaker, Tan Siok Siok (@sioksiok). It is created based on people’s opinions and experience with Twitter across America. The same question was asked throughout Siok Siok’s journey: What is the most interesting thing that happened to you because of Twitter? Love it or hate it, there is no correct answer to that question. She interviewed a wide range of Twitterers, from a ...
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Jan 26 2011
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How MTV India’s Twitter Campaign became a Trending Topic
MTV India once again proved its prowess when it comes to social media marketing. This time around, MTV India organized an Exclusive Preview Tweetup of “Roadies-8” for a group of Twitter Influencers. It went on Twitter's trending topic. The first episode of the biggest cult reality series in India “MTV Hero Honda Roadies 8-Shortcut to Hell” is always a treat for its millions of viewers across the country. But a lucky and deserving few witnessed the same. A day prior to the seasons’ television premiere, a group of 50 twitterers from ...
Jan 26 2011
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Indonesian uses Twitter as WikiLeaks
@Benny_Israel tweeted last Thursday that he knows the dark secrets of Indonesia and wishes to share it with the world. His bold tweet was accompanied with a disclaimer that seeks correction if any information is revealed incorrectly. So far, Benny has revealed that he knows a number of U.S based companies, which committed bribery and avoided tax responsibilities in Indonesia. He also claimed to have information on the “ongoing saga involving Gayus Tambunan, aping the rogue tax official’s claims that his French Guyana passport was supplied by the CIA”. Benny often uses ...
Jan 21 2011
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Social Media Marketing in the U.S [INFOGRAPHIC]
In 2010, advertisers spent $1.7 billion on social media marketing in the U.S. So, where did most of the ad spending go to? Answer: Facebook. Facebook owned more than half of the total ad spending in the U.S last year. The recently revamped MySpace owned 17 percent while Twitter took a modest 3 percent. What’s shocking is that the total U.S total spending on social media marketing accounted for more than half of the world’s spending. Businesses are getting really serious about social media. For example, Dell had launched its Social Media ...
Jan 22 2011
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Twitter is now the Top Social Network in Japan
Update: The data in the chart only represents PC-based email visitation, it does not include visitation from mobile devices or Internet cafes. This is confirmed with comScore. Twitter is top only by PC-email visits. Thanks Serkan for the heads up. 2 months ago, we wrote that Twitter was trending in Japan. It recorded a 13.2 million visits and is only 0.3 million away from Mixi, the then most popular social network in Japan. After three months of traffic tracking, comScore has just released a new data that tells a tale of Twitter ...
Jan 18 2011
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China’s Twitter wants 1 million users in Hong Kong by end of 2011
China’s Twitter, Sina Weibo is gaining steam among Chinese users. The micro-blogging service has over 50 million users, including 500,000 users in Taiwan and 600,000 users in Hong Kong. Sina’s General Manager Meg Lee told Reuters that Sina Weibo aims to have 1 million users by the end of 2011. Most of the users use the service to keep up with celebrities like Jackie Chan and Liang Jing Ru (actor and singer respectively). The Sina Weibo team of developers and designers is currently focused on improving its product quality and experience. ...
Jan 20 2011
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Indonesia Is A Huge Social Media Nation
Earlier at iStrategy, John Goodman from Ogilvy Noor had shared about the rising opportunities and abundant potential in marketing to the third one billion after China and India. “Being the 4th largest country in the world, with a population of about 238 million – it isn't a surprise to know that Indonesia is the second largest market for Facebook and third largest for Twitter. We are a trending topic creator,” said Andi Primaretha, a social media consultant at Virtual Consulting. Because the prices of mobile phones and contracts are so cheap in ...
Jan 11 2011
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How Twitter Killed a Film Star in India and later Apologized
On Jan 10, 2011 , DNA India, the eighth largest Indian newspaper was at the receiving end of ferocious criticism from Indian twitterers from across the world. In an event which reminded many of the infamous Steve Jobs obituary circulated by Bloomberg , DNA Twitter handle sent a confirmation tweet on the demise of Shashi Kapoor . Shashi Kapoor is a yesteryear Bollywood actor who was currently under critical care in a hospital in Mumbai. The Twitter world was already buzzing about Kapoor’s health condition while DNA’s demise tweet spread the news further ...
Jan 11 2011
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How Quora went Viral and what we can Learn
Quora is a site for users to ask and answer questions. The content are created and curated by its users. A ‘”Q&A wiki with digg”, some might call it. Quora was opened to beta testers in December 2009 and was opened to the public late June last year. But the service only got popular in the last two weeks. So why is there a sudden hype? Sysomos analyzed all the Quora related buzz across blogs, forums, news and Twitter and found that the micro-blog has contributed significantly to the volume. But surely someone ...
Jan 10 2011
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Indonesia threat over BlackBerry porn sparks anger on Twitter
Indonesia’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring has given BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) a 2 weeks deadline to block pornography content off the population, the AFP reported. Government officials have complained about the difficulties of monitoring communications through smartphones. So, the solution here seems to be getting smartphone makers to cut off any pornography content which can be accessed through mobile devices. "We have repeatedly asked them to do it and we have given them some time," Sembiring was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe newspaper on Saturday. "If they ...
Jan 9 2011
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What could happen in Social Media in 2 Hours? Be Surprised
In 2 hours, many things could happen on the Internet. Petra Neiger, a Cisco employee and blogger, got inspired to find out what could have happened in the social media sphere after spending 2 painful hours travelling from San Jose to the San Francisco International Airport last week (catch her story here). Her research on the Internet has surfaced some whopping statistics. Breathe in before you read the next sentence. In 2 hours, 25,000 new users joined Twitter, 5.4 million tweets were sent, 5 million new status updates on Facebook were published, 1.6 ...
Jan 9 2011
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Japan Broke Twitter Record on New Year Day
Twitter is popular in Japan and its popularity was evidently shown on New Year day, or in Japanese ‘Oshogatsu’. Just 4 seconds after midnight in Japan, Twitterers set an all time record by sending 6,939 tweets per second (TPS). A huge volume of Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu (Happy New Year!) was sent within the community. Of course, Twitterers from the same time zone (Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia and Singapore) had also helped to set the record. The new record doubled the previous of 3,283 TPS, set during Japan’s victory over Denmark in last ...
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