Newhouse Social Media // Curated by colleagues from the 2012 MAYmester PRL530 Social Media for Public Relations class in the Public Relations Master's Program at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.
New feature by Foursquare allows you to "share the places you love" with Foursquare lists.
Sounds similar to Twitter lists, but is it?
What do you think?
Will this attract new and old users to Foursquare? Will it be a top feature? Will it only be used by everyone, or just anyone on vacation?
What do you think the intent is of Foursquare by releasing this feature?
HootSuite, the social media dashboard and analytics tool, has reached a new milestone: 2 million users.
Invoke Media released HootSuite in December 2008 and it is widely used by individuals as well as organizations, governments and businesses. The White House, SXSW, Zappos and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia all use HootSuite, according to the company.
HootSuite hit the 1 million-user milestone in November 2010. Consumers and businesses have shared some 500 million messages to date.
The company shares some other statistics about its growth in a blog post.
I always feel better reading articles like this after singing an organization's or software's praise to a class or colleagues.
Cheers to Hootsuite for making strides and for contributing to the learning process!
Facebook lost 6 million users—155.2 to 149.4 million—last month in the United States. Up North, Canada lost 8% of its Facebook users, down 1.52 million to 16.6 million total users.
I highly doubt this means much in the long-term.
Citing research conducted by Inside Facebook, Business Insider points possible blame at seasonal fluctuations.
The researchers at Inside Facebook also refer to a trend they have noticed regarding Facebook growth in a given country—it comes to a standstill once reaching the 50% usage milestone.
[Update] Today @ PCWorld offers up a list of five possible reasons why users in the U.S. are ditching Facebook.
