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| Youtube Tops List of Tech Brands With Highest Social Media Engagement This Week [INFOGRAPHIC] | | Monday, November 05, 2012 6:43 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
|  YouTube dethroned Facebook as the hottest tech brand in the social media world last week, according to data aggregator Starcount. Another tech giant, Google, ranked third; its high placement is due to the many views on its YouTube channel, likely driven by the launch of the new Nexus lineup. Yahoo also had a good week, gaining three positions, thanks to almost 230,000 new Facebook fans. Windows also benefited from the recent debut of its newest tablet, the Surface, which has received positive reviews. SEE MORE: Top 10 Airlines With Highest Social Media Engagement This Week Outside of the Top 10, Nintendo showed the biggest improvement, gaining 11 positions up to 39. The company's rise can be attributed to a video for its new game, Paper Mario: Sticker Stars, which attracted more than 70,000 views in just four days. For more, check out the chart below. What do you think of these results? Tell us in the comments. Image courtesy of iStockPhoto, TonisPan. |
| Tumblr Reaches 20 Billion Monthly Pageviews | | Monday, November 05, 2012 2:41 PM | The Daily Dot |
|  Tumblr, the microblog known as a GIF artist haven and a home to memes like Texts From Hillary Clinton, is one of the top 20 most visited websites in the U.S. In an announcement made today, Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp confirmed that the site now collects 20 billion pageviews a month, up from about 13 billion in September, GigaOM reported. "This started pretty modestly as something I wanted for myself," Karp told GigaOM. "I remember very vividly that moment where I was like, it wouldn’t be much more work to add a column to the database thatwhich user posted this post and maybe make it something other people can use." Karp credits Tumblr's growing smartphone market with helping to push it to the 20 billion mark, although he didn’t reveal exactly how much of the site’s traffic comes from its mobile apps. Tumblr was founded in February 2007. Today it collects more than 77 million posts a day across 79 million blogs. Tumblr’s 20 billion monthly pageviews rank it as one of the most visited sites in the world. In July 2011 the microblog was number 92 on a list of Google's top 1,000 most visited sites in the world. If Tumblr's current pageview number was used instead, it would now rank somewhere in the top 25 of that same list. Facebook, the world';s leading social network which registered its 1 billionth user on Oct. 4, collects more than 1 trillion pageviews a month, according to Google's top 1,000 list. Twitter collects more than 5.9 billion pageviews per month, despite the fact that a bulk of its users visit Twitter via mobile apps and not its website. In September Reddit collected 3.4 billion pageviews and in October Etsy reported 1.4 billion. It is unclear where Tumblr currently lists in the top 20 websites in the U.S., but according to Quantcast it is number 19. The top spot currently belongs to Google. The question is, how many GIFs of cats will it take to surpass the search engine giant? Photo by InaFrenzy/Flickr |
| Hands-On With Instagram's New Profile Pages | | Monday, November 05, 2012 2:08 PM | Christina Warren |
|  Earlier today, Instagram started rolling out new web profile pages for its users. The profiles bear a striking resemblance to Facebook Timeline and act as a great way to explore the digital snapshots of Instagram brands and users. Profiles won't be rolled out to all users until later this week but Mashable got early access and decided to take the new profile setup for a spin. Looking at my own profile page, I couldn't help but be struck by how nice it was to have the ability to browse through my past photos from the comfort of my web browser. The top header is a rotating array of photos and clicking on any photo opens up a modal view similar to the existing standalone photo view. From this page, users can like or comment on a photo. Users can also follow others directly from the web profile page. Scrolling further down the profile page, photos are arranged chronologically. Each month has its own heading and hovering over an image shows the date it was taken, the number of likes it has and the number of comments. Clicking on a "load more" button at the bottom of the page does just that. It's also easy to edit your profile -- including your name, bio, URL and email and phone number. The only thing you can't change from the profile page is your photo. There are lots of third-party Instagram viewers (and I love Instadesk for OS X), but it's nice to have the ability to share a URL with someone to let them look at my various Instagram-memories. What do you think of the new Instagram profiles? Let us know in the comments. |
| 20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week | | Monday, November 05, 2012 12:44 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
|  Social TV viewers saw a return to the norm this week, after last week's Major League Baseball World Series. The X Factor once again topped the broadcast listings after a one-week absence, and AMC's The Walking Dead clawed its way back to number one on cable. SEE ALSO: Thousands of CBS Episodes Heading to Hulu in January FOX's vocal competition edged out the Country Music Awards on ABC, with another music program, The Voice, finishing a distant third on NBC. The Voice was mentioned more than 700,000 times in social media, as opposed to The X Factor's near 2.7 million impressions. The data is courtesy of Trendrr, which measures social media activity related to specific television shows (e.g. mentions, likes, check-ins) across Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue and Viggle. To see daily rankings, check out Trendrr.TV. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, subjug |
| Now You Can Upload Multiple iPhone Photos to Facebook at Once | | Monday, November 05, 2012 11:04 AM | Lauren Indvik |
|  Photo uploading just got a whole lot easier for users of Facebook's app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Facebook released version 5.1 of its iOS app on Monday, which lets users upload multiple photos to the social network simultaneously. Previously, photos had to be uploaded one at a time, or in batches through Facebook's designated Camera app In addition to improved photo uploads, U.S. users can also now send real Gifts through the mobile app, a feature Facebook began rolling out on the web in late September. Messenger has also been improved so that you can access your contacts more easily: Simply swipe left anywhere in the app to see who's online. Those whom you message most now appear at the top of your Favorites. To download the update, click here Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, akinbostanci |
| 8 Social Media Hoaxes You Fell for This Year | | Monday, November 05, 2012 10:12 AM | Samantha Murphy |
|  If we've learned anything about social media over the past few years, it's that things can go viral fast. So fast, in fact, users often get swept away in sharing news and don't double-check if what they're spreading even checks out. This, dear web citizens, is how hoaxes spread like wildfire across Facebook and Twitter, and you're left shaking your fist at the computer screen. Just last week, the Internet users shared pictures of Hurricane Sandy that ended up being completely fake, from an image of a shark swimming in a New Jersey street to a picture of the Statue of Liberty surrounded by violent waves, which was actually taken from a scene in The Day After Tomorrow. SEE ALSO: 7 Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos You're Sharing on Social Media Meanwhile, a Photoshopped image from the film Back To The Future also went viral earlier this year. Social media users thought the date Doc set the DeLorean to in the future had finally arrived. Not only did thousands of people share the picture in a matter of hours, it wasn't the first time the hoax had occurred. (Haven't we learned anything, Internet?) Here's a look at what you fell for in 2012, from a Justin Bieber-related hoax that caused fans to shave their heads to a celebrity death rumor so believable it accrued nearly a million Facebook fans. Did you fall for any hoaxes this year? Let us know which ones in the comments below. Thumbnail via iStockphoto |
| Ustream and Video the Vote Encourage Voters to Film Election Day Injustice | | Monday, November 05, 2012 10:12 AM | Fran Berkman |
|  All you need is a smartphone and an eye for injustice to help protect democracy. Video the Vote is collaborating with Ustream in a nationwide project aiming to get video documentation of any examples of voter suppression and disenfranchisement on Election Day 2012. Video the Vote formed in 2006 in response to what it calls "massive voter disenfranchisement," citing voting controversy in Florida (2000) and Ohio (2004). It utilizes a network of some 4,000 citizen journalists across the nation, most of of which are situated where suppression is most likely -- battleground states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and others. Video the Vote project director Matt Pascarella has been covering voter suppression as an investigative journalist for the BBC and other outlets for more than a decade. Pascarella cites long lines, attempts at voter intimidation and enactment of more than 100 voter regulation laws in 30 states as examples of the types injustice he has seen. He said the 2012 election cycle has been marked by some of the worst suppression he has witnessed. "Unfortunately when elections are this close we usually see different suppression strategies at play," Pascarella told Mashable. "All this stuff has been happening, and it's likely to rear its head even more tomorrow especially in these key hotspot areas." SEE ALSO: Russell Simmons Tackles Voter Suppression in Digital Short This year, Video the Vote is massively expanding its effort. Not only is it teaming with social-broadcasting platform Ustream, which will live-stream from potential points of controversey, Video the Vote is encouraging any and all voters who witness injustice to capture a photo or video with a smartphone and upload it with the hashtag #VideoTheVote. "People need to be aware when they're at the polling place if they encounter problems, they have the power to document it," Pascarella said. "At this point it's just a normal thing, if you're out and you witness an injustice, or you're see something that's potentially wrong, most people have smartphones and are going to document it anyway." The organization's staff of more than 70 editors and curators will be looking out for content from social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Ustream. The staff will verify and further develop relevant stories before distributing the stories to various news outlets throughout the country. As an additional tool to raise awareness about the project and get more people involved, Ustream created the following app that helps people easily locate their Facebook friends in battleground states: Anyone who wants to follow along with this crowd-source journalism effort can monitor it at "VideoTheVote.org". For more information on the project, check out the following video promo for the Video the Vote campaign; and be sure to share your thoughts and opinions on voter suppression in the comment section below. Image courtesy of hjl, via Flickr |
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