Todays Topics
Facebook Is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic
Chitika did a study of search engines and social media to see which users come back more to your website, and after analyzing the browsing habits of 33 million unique users over the month of September. The results were, that Facebook has the most loyal unique visitors with 20%, visiting the site they landed on 4 or more times in a week. Following close behind Facebook is Digg.com with 16% and then Twitter with only 11%. Although,Twitter does fall behind three search engines such as Yahoo, Google and Bing.
[via mashable]
Women Rule The Social Web
Women seem to be dominating our Social Media sites according to an infograp created by information is beautiful, the stats were compiled by Brian Solis from Google Ad Planner, where you can gather traffic statistics for sites. The information gathered, showed that women domninated social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Friendfeed, MySpace and Bebo. Where men and women seem to be equals are on sites such as LinkedIn, DevianArt and YouTube, the one place men seem to still reign, is our social news site, Digg.com
[via mashable, briansolis, and visualizefree]
Digg Removes User Icons
Thursday digg removed the user icons from the front page making it hard to see who actually submitted stories.
[via digg, topcultered, & socialnewswatch]
Drew Carey Bids $25,000 for @Drew Twitter Name
With Twitter’s blessing an auction began this week for the Twitter name @Drew for proceeds to go to the LiveStrong foundation, and since 4 letter Twitter names are rare, the auction began at $10,000. Drew Olanoff, who is the current owner of @Drew holds this charity close to his heart, since he is currently battling cancer himself. Another Drew, the actor and current TV Show host of The Price Is Right placed a bid of a whopping $25,000 and raised the bar by challenging people to help him reach 100,000 followers on his current username @drewfromtv and in return he will then pay $100,000 for the @drew name for charity. The auction is already in motion, if you want to bid just use the hashtag #drewbid, you have until 12amEST on November the 9th at which time Olanoff will award the username @drew to the highest bidder. Stay tuned to see, if The Price Is Right.
[via mashable, Drew Olanoff, and Drew Carey]
Twitter CEO on the future of Twitter
The CEO and Co-Founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, recently unveiled some upcoming changes to the future of twitter, including user generated lists to follow tweets from many originators on a particular subject and to be able to share with various groups, such as friends, family, social media groupings of your choice, just to name a few examples, and geographical location to see just where your tweets are coming from. This will also include working on a reputaion validating system to address issues of credibility, for example, when Tweeters wrote about the Iranian Government, although it was gratifying for Williams to see the role Twitter could play in showing the world, it also brought to his attention the concern of news media being reported and unverified by anonymous entities. So the Reputation validating system will be based on ratings from other users, which will start weeding out the fakes and giving Twitter more credibility as an information source. On a side note, Williams also shared with CBSNews, how Twitter got it’s name, since it all started with him sending and receiving tweets ( which by the way, were not titled that then nor embraced as being called that at first) via cellphone, the vibration of the cell caused them to think of twitch, but didn’t like the definition, just beneath it in the dictionary was Twitter, “bird’s talking” and the birth of Twitter was had.
[via cbsnews]
Guest: Jason Kaufman from Popeater
This week on Social Blade we had Editor in Chief, Jason Kaufman from Popeate
r.com, a celebrasite that covers all of your celebrity news that is informative and entertaining. It is a top 1000 site worldwide on Alexa.com, as well as a top 200 site in the United States. Popeater also utilizes Social Media by listening to their readers and interacting with them as well. You can follow and friend them on Facebook and Twitter.
