if you had invested $100 in google, apple, amazon last halloween this would have been your returns

FindTheCompany | Graphiq

FindTheCompany | Graphiq

 HOW MUCH WOULD YOU HAVE GAINED OR LOST ON HALLOWEEN 2016 had you invested  $100 on these  blue  chip technology  stocks and companies during Halloween 2015?.Had you invested $100 on Amazon, your returns would have fetched up 35% as compared to -35% had you invested on Twitter.Search Giant Google would have given you 11% returns, while Apple would have given you negative returns -4% as on Halloween 2016 compared to Halloween 2015. The chart no 2 compared the 3 month return on the same technology stocks

donald trump vs presidential candidates: How trump is dominating social media

Donald Trump's Twitter Analytics | PrettyFamous

Twitter down worldwide

 By Sarah Morgan

From around 8:30am GMT on Tuesday morning, users of Twitter have been reporting issues accessing their accounts on both desktops and mobile apps. Users are being shown "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon." The outage has been reported primarily across the UK, France and Germany, with some reports in Japan and Russia.

Photograph from twitter.com

Some users reported an intermittent return to service at around 10:00am GMT but performance issues have been continuing throughout Tuesday.

 About the Author:        

Sarah writes for Firebrand Training on a number of IT related topics. This includes exams, training, certification trends, project management, certification, careers advice and the industry itself. Sarah has 11 years of experience in the IT industry. 

tweaking and optimizing your images on social media : cheat sheet

tweaking and optimizing your images on social media : 

Cheat sheet for Tweaking your images for optimizing  for search and social media marketing . Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin , Pinterest, Youtube, Whatsapp and Google plus

english premier league team which tops social media ranking

Manchester United tops as the most social English football club. Chelsea and Arsenal ranks no 2 and No 3 respectively  as the most social media savvy english premier league clubs.

Manchester United has a Facebook fan of 66 million. The club has  4.6million twitter followers .Chealsea with  42 million and 5 million follows ManUnited . Arsenal  with  32million and 5.33 million ranks 3rd as the most social English premier league clun

10 Nations that are most active on Twitter

The growth for Twitter is heavily  led by emerging nations including India and Indonesia , which will see the most consistent growth patterns  till 2018, and is slated to increase by well above 50% in 205-2016 
he US will remain the single largest country in terms of the number of individual Twitter users throughout our forecast, but currently, it still represents just over 20% of all Twitter users worldwide. - See more at: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Emerging-Markets-Drive-Twitter-User-Growth-Worldwide/1010874#sthash.1k9BSv5i.dpuf

According to emarketer projectons, after indonesia and India, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil will see much higher growrh rates as compared to developed nations However if you consider the top 10 Twitter countries, per capita use - Kuwait, Netherlands, Brunei, UK, USA, Chile, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Puerto Rico ranks among the top 10 list

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Youtube ,Snapchat replaces Facebook as US teens favorite social destination

A new study by Forrester Research found that just 65 percent of U.S. online users between the ages of 12 and 17 consider Facebook to be cool—ahead of Tumblr (62 percent), Pinterest (58 percent) and Google+ (55 percent), but lagging behind YouTube (80 percent), Snapchat (79 percent), Instagram (78 percent), Vine (72 percent), Twitter (69 percent) and WhatsApp (67 percent).

However, Forrester found that more than 60 percent of respondents use Facebook the most of all social networks, with more than one-third saying they are on it “all the time.”

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Funding Foursquare : 5 insights on the investment patterns

Foursquare Has Raised $162.3M In 6 Rounds From 8 Investors Its earliest disclosed investors include O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Union Square Ventures, both of whom invested around 2009. Over its lifetime, Foursquare has racked up these financing stats: Largest round: $50M Median round: $27.5M Average round: $27.1M The total amount raised they have raised is 11,915% higher than the average for a company in the Other Technology category.

Foursquare Labs Inc.'s Investors by Location (Cumulative) | FindTheCompany

social media marketing automation tools: Most rated top 5

Most popular by ratings :Social media marketing automation tools

G2 Crowd Grid for Social Media Mgmt Software


3 pointers on what you need to know before deciding on the social media marketing automation tool

Some social media monitoring tools and marketing automation systems also offer social media management features. Alongside some marketing automation tools too provide social ability in terms of social media marketing...including to work with Twitter and Facebook as include and schedule tweets  and facebook posts
How to choose a social media automation tool

1) Number of users
2)features and functionalities
3)Integration with your over digital marketing analytics

However it has be to primarily based on your needs. If Social media marketing is a core and heart of your marketing you can consider some of the options here .The Market share Perception map shows the leaders, the laggards and the contenders .

Among the top 3 are  1)social studio  2)Tweetdeck  3)hootsuite and 4)sprout

The high performers include 1)Sendible 2)Agorapulse 3)Buffer  4)cision 54)Growsocial.

Stock market returns in the last one year: Twitter vs LinkedIn

How has the Twitter Stock fared in the last one year compared to Linkedin

Twitter One year Stock market Return

Linkedin One year stock Market returns

Ben Carson and Marco Rubio gained highest twitter followers during 3rd Republican debate:

Ben Carson and Marco Rubio  gained the highest twitter followers followed by Donald Trump.

Growth in Twitter Followers During Third Republican Debate | InsideGov

The volume of of Tweets during the third Republican debate .

New extended List of all countries which can avail Twitter Self Serve Ads on its Platform"

Here’s the list of previous countries with access to self-serve ads:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Bahasa Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Here are the countries and territories added today:

–A–

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan

–B–

Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi

–C–

Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic

–D–

Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic

–E–

Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia

–F–

Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Guiana, French Southern Territories

–G–

Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Guyana

–H–

Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary

–I & J–

Iceland, India, Iraq, Isle of Man, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan

–K & L–

Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania

–M–

Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mayotte, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique

–N–

Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands

–P–

Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal

–Q & R–

Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda

–S–

Saint Barthelemy, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha; Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland

–T–

Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu

–U & W–

Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (US), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara

–Y & Z–

Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Twitter 3.0 makeover to target glocal market and the bottom of the pyramid

 




Twitter  has finally gone global with its self serve advertising model as it expanded its platform so as to facilitate  millions of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in more than 200 countries and territories  to advertise  and  reach their target audience on the " Twitter Self Serve  Platform" ( TSSP)

For Twitter this transition reflects  the road map the company has set itself  as it realigns and re calibrates its value proposition of being seen as a glocal ad aggregator ( glocal : with a very strong focus of global local markets)

For millions of small business, local classifieds business and  Twitter is the best bet  for these under served " business ' to take their business national and global   as it brings power of real time advertising to " millions of small and big business, mom and pop stores. The Company is bringing its self-service ads platform to more people around the world. . Widely Seen , this is twitters most profound and  redefining product positioning identity,for a brand that is yet to get its " eureka moment". The self serve ad platform might be just that moment in its quest for :"finding the perfect monetization model, "It self serve platform  promises to be  be the most " cost effective" real time marketing channel for small and medium, mom and pop stores that which burgeoning by hundreds in developing countries 

Of late Twitter has been under increasing pressure among other things to select a new, permanent CEO executive ,show substantially higher user growth , as shareholders increasingly seek steps from the company  to evolve and bring order to its advertising monetization business, Twitter's tryst with lower that expected growth rates and falling advertising pie continues as stocks reached an all time low last month