Tag: "Australia"
Social Media Statistics Australia – November 2011
It’s the last day of the month and time for us to report our monthly social media statistics for Australia. As per previous stats, when compiling these figures we look at actual user numbers if officially reported (or by a reputable source ) – otherwise we look at the number of Unique Australian Visitors Per […]
Read More | ShareHow Twitter Effects Change
Following up from our earlier post today on Kyle Sandilands Trending on Twitter … Kyle Sandilands has put his foot in it again and the backlash has been swift. His comments about news.com.au journalist Ali Stephenson, who wrote an article reporting criticism of his TV show have made a big impact on the Australian public, and […]
Read More | ShareAustralia posts 80 Tweets a second
According to a National research study by University of Technology Sydney (UTS), on average Australian’s send out around 80 tweets per second, or 5000 Tweets a minute on average – which equates to about 234 million tweets a month. Dr Suresh Sood from UTS undertook the study and has a number of other interesting facts, […]
Read More | ShareSponsored Stories in Ticker
There are rumors floating around that Facebook will be adding sponsored stories to the ticker news-stream in the top-right of their site. This is a highly visible area and expected to increase CTR and prominence of sponsored stories. This change is expected to rollout tonight Australia time and we will keep an eye on the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle RealTime Analytics rolls out to Australia
Recently Google updated the analytics interface to the new design, boasting a number of new features and functionality. This afternoon I have had several confirmations from Australian users that the RealTime analytics feature has been enabled in their account. What is RealTime Google Analytics? This is a feature inside your tracking account that shows how […]
Read More | ShareYelp to file for IPO
Local Recommendations website Yelp is looking to file for Initial Public Offering (IPO) so it can raise $100 million USD. No price per share has been determined yet, but the company is expected to have a valuation of around $1-$2 billion USD. Google offered Yelp $500 million for the site last year, which Yelp declined. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Newsfeed Change Rolled-Out
We reported previously that Facebook is updating their Newsfeed so that you can sort your newsfeed by either highlighted stories, or most recent stores. This change has been scheduled because many users didn’t want highlighted stories first, they wanted the old format of most recent items first. Facebook has now started rolling this change out […]
Read More | ShareiOS 5.0.1 update released
Apple has now released iOS update 5.0.1 This fixes a number of bugs, but most importantly for Australian users: – battery draining problems – better voice recognition for an Australian accent. I’m hoping it also fixes the SOS only problem many of us have been experiencing, but I can’t find much information on this. This […]
Read More | ShareHow to write a quality Twitter Bio
There is no doubt Twitter is a powerful business social network, and with it’s close integration with LinkedIn I really find Twitter a useful marketing tool and information source. Fact is this site gets a fair proportion of monthly traffic from my Twitter profile. So what is the best way we can optimise our Twitter […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Ad changes roll out to Australia
Facebook has made a tweak to the ads displayed on their site. Specifically on the profile and newsfeed pages, Facebook ads have been moved ads to the top right of the page above the realtime ticker. It seems they may have done this for a number of reasons: Increase presence/impressions Location next to ticker gets […]
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