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Twitter, facebook and youtube are growing rapidly

April 21, 2009 – 6:02 am

From Mashable:
In March, YouTube reached 100 million monthly viewers in the US. 6.3 billion videos were viewed on the site. MySpace, the social network that used to break records like these, is now lagging behind Facebook; according to latest calculations, Facebook now has a total of 65.7 million unique visitors versus MySpace’s 54.1 million. MySpace was sold to News Corp. for $580 million in 2005. Facebook’s valuation? [...]

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Domino’s hits some social media whitewater

April 17, 2009 – 7:51 am

Readwriteweb: “In terms of its social media presence, Domino’s Pizza gets a lot of things right. It has a YouTube Channel, a Twitter account, and both a Facebookand MySpace profile. What Domino’s could not plan for, however, was that two of its employees at a North Carolina franchise would use YouTube to broadcast a rather disgusting video that would [...]

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Ponzi schemes booming on Youtube

April 15, 2009 – 6:35 am

Hugh Pickens writes
“While it’s probably not true that P. T. Barnum was the originator of the saying ‘there’s a sucker born every minute,’ the proliferation of nearly 23,000 Ponzi schemes on YouTube, with an astounding 59,192,963 views, proves that the sentiment is still alive and well. The videos usually don’t ask for money directly, but send viewers [...]

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Monty Python announces youtube channel (video)

November 20, 2008 – 10:14 am
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How Obama uses Twitter and other social media tools

October 23, 2008 – 2:41 pm

Barack Obama has over 100,000 followers on twitter. According to Twitterholic, that’s a lot more than anyone else. On Facebook, Obama has 2.2 million “friends” compared to 745,000 for McCain. On MySpace, Obama has 588,000 friends compared to McCain’s 188,000.
Twitter is just part of a highly successful internet strategy which also includes wikis, youtube and [...]

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