News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, Q1 2012 16 Apr 2012 Social media data company SocialBakers has just released a new round of infographics that reveal the top performing Facebook pages across Asia and beyond for the first quarter of 2012. The analysis ranks pages in terms of a number of different metrics, including average engagement and response rates. Here are are the scorecards for Singapore, […]
News World of Chinese Social Media 13 Apr 2012 The impressively informative World of Chinese team recently released a Social Media issue of their magazine that shares some fascinating perspectives of the different online beahviours and social platforms in the world’s most populous country. You can buy the full issue over at their website, but here’s a great 23-page preview to whet your appetite:
News Five Friday Facts #23 13 Apr 2012 Active weibo users in China There’s no doubt that China’s microblogging platform is an important source of information to Internet users in China. The number of active weibo users has since reached 249 million by the end of 2011, a 59.3% increase compared to the year before. The number of new subscribers is however gradually levelling […]
News New Google+ Design, Share+ Everywhere 12 Apr 2012 Google have just revealed a new Google+ layout and interface: As part of the rollout, Google appears to have added new share functionality across a wide range of its different properties: Google Search: YouTube: Gmail: Do you think these new features are primarily intended as social networking functionality, or are they more directed at understanding […]
News We Are Social Asia Midweek MashUp #23 11 Apr 2012 Twitter introduces brand pages in Japan Japan is the first market in Asia where Twitter is introducing brand pages after their first launch in the US in December 2011. The three companies who will first use Twitter brand pages are Docomo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, convenience store chain Lawson, and Warner Entertainment Japan. This isn’t […]
News Five Friday Facts #22 6 Apr 2012 Happy Easter everyone! Here’s a quick Five Friday Facts to start off the long Easter weekend. Instagram’s Android version has (finally) been released Instagram’s Android version has been a long time coming, and as soon as it was released on the Google Play marketplace, Instagram for Android reached 1 million downloads in less than 24 […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #22 3 Apr 2012 Crackdown on social media in parts of Asia In China, police arrested six and shut down 16 websites after rumours spread online that military vehicles were on the streets of Beijing. As a result, microblogging sites Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo have prevented users commenting on other users’ posts from 31 March to 3 April in […]
News Five Friday Facts #21 30 Mar 2012 Social media users in China The number of social media users in China reached 256.5 million in 2011, and looks set to reach 414.5 million by 2014. Already making up more than 50% of China’s Internet population, social media users there will encompass 63% of China’s Internet population by 2014. Even without the presence of […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #21 27 Mar 2012 Real-time Twitter trends on Yahoo! Japan’s search page Yahoo! Japan now features the top three trending Twitter keywords on its search page, which link to the real-time search subpage following Twitter’s tweet integration partnership with Yahoo! Japan earlier in 2011. This could benefit Twitter greatly as its top trends will likely reach a wider audience […]
News Most Valuable Social Media Brands 2012 26 Mar 2012 Brand Value Rating Agency BV4 and the department of Social Media Management of the HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich have created the first ranking of “The Most Valuable Social Media Brands 2012“, which examined both the qualitative and monetary value of 50 social media brands. Some of the qualitative measures looked at not […]
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