Tag Archives: microblogging

Social Media Abuzz with Swine Flu (H1N1)

May 5, 2009 – 11:05 am

Social media has over the past week been domianted by swine flu (H1N1) discussion. This weeks experience is the perfect example of why health/development agencies must take their messgae to where people are, and where the discussion is happening.
WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), and panicked people across the [...]

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Latest from the Twitter Wars

April 21, 2009 – 7:56 am

Last week, Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher reached 1 million followers on Twitter becoming the first on the micro-blogging site to reach the million mark and winning an unofficial race against CNN .
As the first to reach a million, Ashton has promised to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to Malaria No More with CNN promising to match [...]

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Twittering adults

March 27, 2009 – 9:26 am

Nielsen Online has published a new study which shows that Twitter is the fastest growing site in the ‘member community’ category, unique visitors to the site grew from 475,000 in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009!  Zimbio, the interactive magazine, and Facebook followed, growing 240% and 228% respectively.
Interestingly, the fastest growing users of [...]

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Twitter gaining ground

February 25, 2009 – 12:14 pm

There had been a “noticeable increase” in visits to Twitter since the micro-blogging platform started receiving more widespread mainstream media attention, according to Hitwise. “Over the last 12 months traffic to Twitter.com has increased 27-fold,” says Robin Goad, a research director at Hitwise. “If the people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third-party [...]

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