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We Are Social's Monday Mashup #71

Facebook allows users to tag pages in photos Facebook announced last week that users will now be able to tag Pages in their photos. Pages under the categories ‘Brands & Products’ or ‘People’ can now be tagged, giving greater potential for Pages to grow through people discovering them. Friends will be able to visit a […]

We Are Social and we need a geek

We have grown up very quickly. When I joined We Are Social nearly two-and-a-half years ago it was eight of us crammed round a desk designed for six that we were renting off another agency, and we had to keep swapping laptop chargers as there weren’t enough to go round. Now we’re forty-five people in […]

Digital, mobile and social media in China

Simon Kemp has put this awesome deck together, with some truly stunning numbers on the digital, mobile and social landscape in China:

The reality behind the check-in

The death of the check-in may have been exaggerated. Beyond surveyed a statistically representative panel of 1,003 U.S. consumers during the week of April 18th. Respondents were asked 21 questions designed to assess their familiarity with and usage of location-based apps like Facebook Places and Foursquare. The highlights of their findings: 50% don’t own a smart phone, and […]

We Are Social recommended by Altimeter

Something we’re extremely proud of here at We Are Social towers – a recommendation from Jeremiah Owyang and Charlene Li in their recent report – How Corporations Should Prioritize Social Business Budgets:

We Are Social's Monday Mashup #70

After something of a hiatus due to the Bank Holidays, we’re back on a Monday… YouTube continues to grow For the second consecutive month, YouTube was the fastest growing social media property in the UK in April, growing by 3.12% year-on-year. It now accounts for one in every five UK visits to a social media […]

Lost in generational translation

Yes, we’ve all been social network raped (fraped), where one of your hilarious mates takes your phone/laptop and decides to update your page with some reference to how much you love male members and such. It’s all very amusing. In fact, it’s happened to the best of us, including high-profile footballers. But yesterday evening, things […]

Ones to watch

The We Are Social team, earlier today (maybe) PRWeek have just released their annual list of the Top 150 PR Consultancies, and we’re extremely happy to have been named one of the ‘ones to watch’: Social media specialist We Are Social posted by far the most impressive growth in 2010, cranking fee income up to […]

How Twitter reacted to Bin Laden's death

Following from Chris’ post about his role in a small part of the story, we thought it worth taking a step back and putting the whole thing in context. FlowingData have helpfully annotated a timeline of Tweets for us: And NM Incite have produced this great infographic giving us the perspective we need: Update: A […]

Tweeting the killing of Bin Laden

Note: This was originally posted on my personal blog, but I thought it was worth sharing with We Are Social’s audience as well As the biggest news story of the week, the killing of Osama bin Laden, broke, I was on holiday in New York. As the clock ticked passed midnight local time (EDT) on […]