It might take 371 days for your mom to friend you on Facebook
Family dynamics and social media = always potentially dicey. Continue Reading
Social Media
76 percent of business interactions on social media are “neutral?” That’s boring.
Big organizations may have ruined social in some ways. They rushed in at one point trying to be cool, and now your NewsFeed and Timeline and whatever else can be cluttered with stuff about Fritos. This is a potential tipping… Continue Reading
Penalty kicks are the conclusive proof that Twitter is just a big digital sports bar
I’d like to say this is a sign that I’m older and more mature, but it’s probably not: I haven’t watched a lot of this World Cup in bars. Most of it has been in my living room, with the… Continue Reading
Amazon vs. Netflix is getting more and more interesting
Just learned this today: Amazon has an entire landing page for “not on Netflix.” A shot across the bow? Perhaps. It’s kind of interesting broadly, though: five-six years ago, you would maybe kinda view Amazon and Netflix as business rivals — Netflix primarily… Continue Reading
The world got impatient; one second of slower load time can cost Amazon $1.6 billion across a year
There are some statistics you run across in the course of consuming information that just straight up blow your mind. Here’s one example: The most staggering statistic in @VaclavSmil’s new book: http://t.co/2N6cpXQsJ5 pic.twitter.com/QPcBscSLXj — Bill Gates (@BillGates) June 13, 2014… Continue Reading
Even as organic reach declines, Facebook’s best day for engagement is Fridays
There’s a cool post over at Buffer about surprising social media statistics, and while a few different things stand out — for example, about 91 percent of your mentions on Twitter will likely come from a user with less than 500 followers… Continue Reading
Teenagers text about three times as much as they use Google or make phone calls in a given day
Here’s a chart via Quartz, which is in turn via Niche, about the media consumption habits of kids that graduated from high school this May/June. Facebook won for “most daily users” (take that, conventional logic!), YouTube won for most widespread… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: where would the O.J. Simpson white Ford Bronco chase have ranked as a Twitter event?
Think about this: if 20 years ago tomorrow was, instead, tomorrow — the Internet might break in half. You’d be in the middle of the World Cup — already poised to be the most-tweeted event in history — and you’d… Continue Reading