Tag Archives: Twitter

Tweeting Across Africa

January 31, 2012 – 5:22 pm

New research from Portland shows that South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading Tweeting in Africa.  The researched analysed +11.5 million geo-located Tweets originating on the continent during the last three months of 2011, findings include that political leaders are still largely absent from the debates playing out on Twitter. It concludes that as [...]

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Nonprofit Social Media Benchmark Study

February 4, 2010 – 4:16 pm

M+R Strategic Services has released a Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks Study.  The study analyzed growth and social engagement metrics on Facebook and Twitter for nonprofit organizations, including online communities of Oxfam, Human Rights Campaign and Charity:Water. The key findings for Facebook are, among others:

Only a small fraction of  the 180,000 organizations on Facebook have [...]

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Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up by 82%

January 25, 2010 – 12:26 pm

According to the recent report by Nielsen, in December 2009, global Internet users spent more than 5,5 hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. This is an 82% increase from 2008 when users spent just over 3 hours on these sites during December month. Moreover, overall traffic to social networking sites has grown [...]

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Social media support for Haiti forcing shift

January 21, 2010 – 11:09 am

Donations for Haiti continue to pour in and are, in the US alone, exceeding $ 305 million according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy .  Large sums are being donated  online and through text messages. By Wednesday, the American Red Cross had received more than $25 million through its campaign to encourage $10 gifts through texts.
In [...]

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Real-time search now possible through Google

December 8, 2009 – 10:56 am

Google yesterday launched its real-time search which also includes updates from Twitter and social networks MySpace and Facebook.. it’s the first time ever that any search engine has integrated the real-time web in this way.  The real-time stream of data will be shown within Google’s normal results page and will also be available on smart [...]

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Social media fundraiser

October 19, 2009 – 1:49 pm

The weekend’s ‘beat cancer’ social media fundraiser has so far resulted in more than 200,000 tweets.  The campaign idea is very straight forward, four cancer charities are aiming for a world record in social media mentions and for every tweet, Facebook status update, or blog post containing the #beatcancer hashtag, eBay, PayPal and MillerCoors donate [...]

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Petitioning Made Easy

September 3, 2009 – 11:06 am

An effective way to raise awareness and organize people around an issue is to start and sign a petition or appeal. Twitter has made it pretty simple to create and spread petitions by combining both the means of signing and the means of spreading the word into the same action, by retweeting.   There are many [...]

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Join the Twestival!

August 21, 2009 – 10:43 am

Tweet- Meet- Give! Twestival Local will be taking place 10-13 September 2009, you can still register your city and cause or join the already linked ones.
Twestival is an international movement where people meet offline for one night, have fun and do some good for an important cause in the process.  While Twestival Global, held in [...]

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New Twitter Fundraising Tool Launched

August 10, 2009 – 11:53 am

Last week saw the launch of TwitCause, a new fundraising tool on Twitter.    TwitCause will support a new cause every Thursday,  followers can then show their support by retweeting the cause/non-for-profit, tweets will contain a link to a site through which people can donate using PayPal.  Followers will themsleves nominate and vote on non-for-profits they [...]

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More than 2 Million Iran Election Tweets Recorded

July 2, 2009 – 7:17 am

Along with the rest of the world, M4ID and partners have been following the Iran Twitter story with great interest.. the attention and traditional media coverage has really brought home the message that social media has revolutionized the way we communicate and come together around social change issues.
The Web Ecology Project has also now  published [...]

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