Another month has flown by and it is now time to report our Australian Social Media statistics for April 2013. As I have mentioned in the past, social media growth in Australia has slowed...
It appears Aussies are starting to suffer from ‘Facebook fatigue’, according to new data from a social media monitor. The data, collected by social media monitoring firm Social Bakers, shows around 115,000 less people...
The amount of time Australians spend on social media sites is declining, according to new research involving three million internet users. Interest in sites like Facebook and Twitter grew rapidly in Australia from 2010....
Twitter has began to allow ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in ‘tweets’ and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied...
Buzz has continued to build about the social media giant Twitter’s launching of a new music app. Key ‘influencers’ have already been given a sneak preview of the software ahead of a public roll-out,...
Google’s new privacy policy is under legal attack from regulators in its largest European markets, who want the company to overhaul practices they say let it create a data goldmine at the expense of...
A new survey shows marketing budgets will grow by 1% in 2013, following growth of 3.4% last year, while the growth of social networking and Web 2.0 is less pronounced than in 2011. The...
Some people can’t stand it, others can’t live without it. Twitter turned seven on Thursday and with more than 200 million active users, the social media platform has no shortage of friends to celebrate...
Facebook is preparing to take on Twitter by adopting the messaging service’s iconic hashtag symbol, The Wall Street Journal reports. Users of the globally popular one-to-many messaging service Twitter use # or pound symbols...
Facebook has started transforming the stream of updates from friends at home pages into a ‘personalised newspaper’ with news ranging from the personal to the global. The News Feed on home pages at the...