Social Networks

I’m sorry for covering Twitter again after our feature about the Twitter Verified Accounts. But this is too good of a discussion point to make a pass on. While various data are pointing different trends with regards to Twitter’s growth, a particular Harvard study pointed an interesting fact – that  amidst its growing userbase, more than half of these users update their profile less than once every 74 days. [Read more…] about What Has Become of Twitter as a Communication/Connection Medium?

Nielsen is running some nice analysis of April 2009 stats collated by the firm about top social networking sites. Particularly, these stats point to the total minutes that users spent on top social networking sites, time spent on video streams, and the more specific unique visitors composition index for MySpace and Facebook. [Read more…] about Some Social Networking Stats to Ponder On

So, you’ve decided to take out some photos you’ve uploaded on a social networking site. You hit the delete button and when the site told you the your photos have been deleted you left the site hurriedly. One month later, you chanced upon the direct link to the photos you thought you deleted already but lo and hold your photos were still there.  Do social networking sites really delete the photos after you’ve deleted them? Apparently they did not, says a BBC report citing a research by Cambridge University reasearchers. [Read more…] about Deleted Photos on Social Networking Sites Remain Undeleted