Social Media by the Numbers: Languages, Apps, and Mazda
- Jul 30th, 2010
- Posted by Aaron Graham
- Posted in Amazon, Facebook, Ford, Old Spice, Social Media by the Numbers, Twitter, YouTube
Numbers and Stats:
- Portuguese, Arabic, and Spanish lead growth of Facebook’s top languages.
- Windows Live Messanger is this week’s fastest growing Facebook app.
Changes and Additions to Facebook:
Facebook launches beta version of “Questions” in its publisher (see pic) to 1% of users. Questions are public, but it what else? They also removed the ability to post videos and events from your publisher. Here’s a more in-depth look. Facebook also launches a company run Page the hosts best practices for media companies.
Brand News:
Ford launches their reinvented Ford Explorer on Facebook. Reveals new content throughout the day and surpassed its goal of 50K fans to 53K (started at 42,500).
Mazda puts fans behind the wheel with its Facebook game, DriverVille.
Amazon launches an integration with Facebook that will pull data from you and your friend’s movie, music, and book preferences to make recommendations.
Twitter may be getting embeddable videos and photos in the tweet stream. Sweet!
Kanye gets on the Twitters – Aziz Ansari predicts them.
Oldest Twitter user, Ivy Bean, dies at 104.
…Increases video time limit to 15 minutes.
…And is banned from Russia!
Old Spice sales double with the Old Spice guy YouTube/Twitter campaign. Sales have increased by 107% in the past month!
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