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View in web browser View text-only version Blackberry version Mobile version Add to safe senders list Sign up using my Facebook or Twitter ID? Well, maybe I don't want to Sue Keogh 06 February 2012, 3:03PM How do you feel about being forced to use your Facebook or Twitter ID to sign up to new services? Only a phony would pay for followers and fans Lisa Devaney 06 February 2012, 10:43AM Would you buy your social media influence? If you are feeling lonely on Twitter, with only a handful of followers, or not feeling enough fans like you on Facebook, you could consider buying more friends. The service Big Bird Fans is offering to get you 2,000 fans for $1,500 or up to 10,000 followers for $4,000. Joey Barton says he's ready for jail over Terry Tweets @gordonmacmillan 06 February 2012, 9:15AM The Attorney General’s office is to investigate a series of tweets made by Twitter’s biggest Premiership footballer, Joey Barton, about the John Terry racism case. Over the weekend the Queens Park Rangers captain took to Twitter after Terry was stripped of his England captaincy on Friday in the wake of the coming court case that will deal with allegations that he racially abused Anton Ferdinand during a match at QPR last year. Majority of marketers see social media as a way to build brand awareness or reputation [infographic] Polly Becker 06 February 2012, 9:00AM As social networking has become ingrained in our lives, social sharing has become an incredibly valuable way for marketers to drive traffic, reach new customers, generate brand equity and ultimately increase sales. Getting the right online strategy for overseas sales Alex Wares 06 February 2012, 8:30AM It is often forgotten that many international consumer markets don't have the same level of e-retail sophistication as there is here in the UK. This has implications for the way in which international online consumers are targeted. Twitter launches Twitter for News @gordonmacmillan 03 February 2012, 2:55PM This should be useful Twitter has launched a new account that is dedicated to spotlighting some of the best practices and innovative uses of Twitter by journalists and newsrooms. Twitter says the account will focus on “innovative Twitter use across all types of news & journalism – not just breaking”. Interesting that it comes in a week when Twitter said that it wasn’t a media company. Reuters names the top 50 social CEOs @gordonmacmillan 03 February 2012, 12:06PM Reuters has named its Top 50 Social CEOs as part of the launch of a new social media section for journalists and readers called the “Social Pulse”. Topping the list it will be no surprise to anyone to see Mashable’s Pete Cashmore. He is followed by Oprah Winfrey and new Twitter boy on the block Rupert Murdoch. Less than a month in and the combustible News Corporation CEO is number three. That’s social climbing. Social brands think small Maeve OSullivan 03 February 2012, 10:59AM This post is provided by our partner Headstream, the social brand agency behind the Social Brands 100. So it's finally happened; Facebook has filed for 'the largest technology IPO in Wall Street history'. Everything about Facebook is immense; almost 850 million users and 2.7 billion likes and comments every day. As recently as the summer of 2008, Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating the 100 millionth user, that means 750 million people signed up in 3.5 years alone. Then there's Twitter, hitting 500 million users any day now, not to mention Linkedin, who reported 135 million members in November 2011. Digital subscriptions at the New York Times rise 20% @gordonmacmillan 03 February 2012, 9:44AM The New York Times has given an update on its paywall and overall digital subscription numbers with the number of digital subscription packages, e-readers and replica editions of paper, and the International Herald Tribune, hitting 390,000 at the end of the fourth quarter. That's up 20%, or by almost 70,000, since the end of the third quarter of 2011. Kellogg's endorses dangerous railway stunt on Facebook days after girl's death @gordonmacmillan 02 February 2012, 1:11PM Days after fresh details emerged about the deaths of two teenage girls on a rail crossing, and the death of another girl was reported, Kellogg’s Krave cereal has endorsed dangerous railway stunts on its Facebook page. 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