Posts from ‘May, 2009’

Via Mashable
May 26th, 2009 | by Ben Parr
Utilizing social media, protests can be started and organized in a matter of minutes. While this usually applies to digital protests (i.e. Twitter #fixreplies and Facebook’s homepage redesign), same-sex marriage activists are harnessing social media’s power to organize multi-city protests across the U.S. in response to today’s ruling [...]

Via Mashable
by Josh Catone
According to new data from Inside Facebook, users over the age of 55 haven’t been as actively using Facebook over the past two months after triple digit growth in that demographic earlier this year. The report has resulted in speculation that while older people are trying Facebook, they’re not sticking around.
Between November [...]

Via Media Shift
by Julie Posetti, May 27, 2009
Twitter became big news once journalists realized its power as a tool for breaking stories during the Mumbai Massacre in 2008. In the aftermath of the micro-blogging platform hitting the headlines, there was an explosion of professional journalists in the Twittersphere. This growth has been fueled by increasing [...]