Twitter recently announced that they are introducing Twitter Analytics. This new analytics is going into private beta and will be unrolled to everyone “as soon as possible,” so no timeframe for full release. The new Twitter analytics will allow internet marketers to better measure the exact impact of Twitter sharing on their site’s traffic. Here …
Google recently announced its acquisition of Zagat and its plans to integrate Zagat reviews, previously blocked behind a paywall, into various Google properties, including Google Places. This move has the potential to make Zagat user reviews a very important aspect of internet marketing for certain kinds of businesses.
Google continues to grow their fledgling Google+ social network by introducing their first 16 games, designed to segregate all game notification so they don’t go into your news feed. You only see the game spam if you choose to go to the game page. Facebook responds by increasing the amount of space allocated for games, and increasing the amount of notifications that games and pump into users’ feeds.
Twitter has just announced the ability to upload images directly into Twitter, without the need for a third party image hosting service. The images can be uploaded straight from your timeline by clicking an icon in the tweet box, and appear in the right sidebar when someone clicks on the tweet. Twitter says that in the coming weeks it will also be implementing user media galleries. Find out how it works and what the privacy features are.
A new survey shows that Google+ is on track to be the second largest social network within 12 months, beating LinkedIn and Twitter. The survey suggests that Google+ will be second only to Facebook, and that the new social network will negatively impact Facebook — eating away at Facebook’s users. Compared to Facebook, Google+’s users are younger, better educated, more male and more single.
