A new study shows that micro blogging site Twitter is as influential as the judges of X Factor when it comes to how the audience vote on the show. According to a study conducted by media agency Carat, Twitter is more than 42 percent more influential than other news sources in the behavior of deciding voters. The study, which had 13,000 total respondents, is believed to be the first research conducted on social media’s influence on audience’s voting behavior. The research also shows that the trust of viewers is shifting to non-traditional...
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It seems that YouTube is on a roll as the latest Video Metrix data from comScore has revealed that the online streaming website has passed the 20 billion views mark for the first time. This represents at least 50 percent of all videos watched in the United States. According to comScore, 184 million internet users in the United States watched 42.6 billion in the month of October, 20.9 billion or 49.1 percent of which are from YouTube. This is up from 182 million users in September who watched an average 19.5 hours of video per viewer. The...
The rumored Socl search/social network project of Microsoft seems to be real and is reported to be open for beta testing in the near future. A social network called ‘Socl’ is being developed by Microsoft to rival Google’s new Google+ and Facebook. Back in July, Microsoft hinted that a social network service is in the works when Socl.com was accidentally published for a short while. Many said that it was Microsoft’s secret social network. The Verge got access to the rumored site, which Microsoft said that only a...
In an effort to enhance its social network, Internet search giant Google has integrated its own Chrome web browser and video sharing website YouTube more deeply into Google+. Vic Gundotra, the company’s senior vice president for engineering, said that Chrome and YouTube can be accessed more easily from the network of Google+. “It’s no secret that YouTube is filled with tons of great content (from inspiring speeches to music videos to honey badgers). We wanted to bring YouTube directly into Google+—as well as make it...
Last week, social networking site Facebook has announced that around 600,000 accounts get hacked in one day. The company then decided to add the “Trusted Friends” feature, a new security feature that will help prevent attacks that allows users to choose 3 to 5 friends that they can trust. Now, a hacker group warned that this may actually backfire. The Hackers Online Club said that the social network’s “Trusted Friends” can fail if the victim is fooled into accepting accounts from the hacker as friends. Facebook...
Google-owned YouTube video unit is rolling out 100 channels to compete with cable companies. Video streaming site YouTube has announced that the creation of 100 online video channels will feature original programming that involves celebrities such as pop singer Madonna, actor Ashton Kutcher, former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal and rapper Jay-Z. The venture, in partnership with Hollywood production companies, online video creators and a number of media companies, will be generating around 25 hours of original programming on the...
Social networking site Facebook is now planning to build a new server farm up north, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, to improve the sites performance for its European users, company officials said Thursday. The move will mark the first time Facebook opens a server farm outside the United States. UK-based news publication The Telegraph said that the facility, which is located at Luleå town in northern Sweden, will use as much power as a town of 50,000 residents. Even though the servers will rely on the cold Arctic air to keep them running,...
Photo mosaics have been all the rage for quite a while years ago, and with the current technological advances, it can be made by almost anyone. Now, online gadget retail company Firebox can make portrait posters of a person’s profile photo in Twitter using his or her personal tweets. The poster is much like a photo mosaic, but instead of using hundreds or thousands of a user’s photos, it uses their tweets. The cost of one poster is £24, and all users need to do is to provide their Twitter user name and make their profiles...
Those of you thinking you’ve found the holy grail of offers, £500 in free Asda and/or Argos vouchers for Christmas by visiting a Facebook page, we’re sad to say it’s a scam. Facebook scammers have started to exploit Christmas shoppers early this year, with posts on users walls inviting their friends to claim free vouchers. The one which is most common seems to be free vouchers for Argos, although there are scams for Pizza Hut vouchers, Asda vouchers, Starbucks, Tim Hortons and plenty more floating about. The sneaky...
Micro blogging site Twitter has launched in June the t.co URL shortener and began formatting links that are 20 characters long or greater. Now, the service has announced that the program will be expanded to reformat all posted links in the future. “Tens of millions of links are tweeted on Twitter each day,” said the developers from Twitter in a post in its official blog. “Wrapping these shared links helps Twitter protect users from malicious content while offering useful insights on engagement. All links submitted within...