A recent study by a US marketing firm suggests that as much as 40% of tweets on Twitter are ‘pointless babble’. Pear Analytics randomly sampled 2,000 tweets from Twitter’s public stream and divided them into six categories: news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and pass-along value. Pear found that 811 of the sampled tweets ( […]
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Here is how social networks can take dumb criminals and make them even dumber. A thief who stole a computer and other items from a woman’s house logged into the the woman’s Facebook account and boasted about the theft, even going so far as to say that the Television in the her house wasn’t good […]
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Spokeo search allows you to track people and friends on your email contact list across most of the top social networks like Linkedin, Facebook and Myspace. Users can login to the Spokeo search service using their logon from various popular email accounts and Spokeo will search their contact list for users that are registered on […]
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ExecTweets is a new social networking service from Federated Media and Microsoft that allows users to find and follow top business executives and CEOs on Twitter. ExecTweets is a social network search that aggregates the tweets of the top business executives and allows people to follow the most high-powered business tweets. You can check out […]
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In what may be a historic first for both the legal profession and online social networking, lawyers in Australia convinced a judge to allow them to serve legal documents on a couple using the social network Facebook after failing to serve the documents in person. The Australian couple had defaulted on their mortgage and have […]
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