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Relevant Social Media Statistics for 2011

1. Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old 2. In 10 years over 40% of the Fortune 500 will no longer be here 3. Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web 4. Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S. 5. 1 in 5 couples meet online; 3 in 5 gay couples meet online 6. 1 in 5 divorces are blamed on Facebook 7. What happens in Vegas stays on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook… 8. 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction 9. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest and 2x the size of the U.S. population 10. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment; % of these using LinkedIn 95% Sources of Social Media Statistics: 1. Source: h ttp://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/broker http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.php [roughly 52% based on table data] | 2010 U.S. 310,232,863 | 2010 World 6,814,609,654 | 30 and under: 3,548

Why some Tweets Cannot RT via Web Base twitter...?

You may have experienced this error messege when trying retweet someones tweet via Twitter web base. "Your account may not be allowed to perform this action. Please refresh the page and try again." It shows asks that you to refresh and Re try. But the result will be same as earlier and the shortest option is to ignore what you trying. Reason : You get this error when you try to RT a long Tweet which included at least 130+ characters. As soon you click RT button it Auto adding the tweet owners Twitter Handle and "RT :" front of the related tweet. if the tweet doesn't meet required character space to fill it shows errors. As you know a single twit can contain only 140 characters Maximum. If you really need to use the statement Copy it, Remove unnecessary part and add the Owners Handle Manually and Tweet. Some 3rd Part Twitter Clients have editing option available to when you trying to RT a tweet and it will show how many characters exceeded.

Blast Cast for RSS Widgest to web sites

News widget or news ticker to add the content to your website or blog. The widgets are highly customizable and can fit seamlessly into your website. Widget Maker for Websites If you have one or more RSS or Atom feeds, you can create a custom widget designer for your website and allow your visitors to create widgets for their websites using your feeds. Because the feed links in the created widgets point to your website, this can help your website or blog gain more traffic and generate more reader interest. RSS Widgets and more... • Create a News Widget • Create a News Ticker • Create a Feed-Landing Page • Create a Feed Widget • Combine, Filter, Sort Feeds • Convert Feed Format • Get Feed in JSON Form • Tap into the Feed API

Best 6 Way to filter your feeds

There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Reader's shared items. We've also taken a look in the past at automatic filters such as Feedhub ( our coverage ) which learns from your behavior to suggest posts, or AideRSS ( our coverage and here ), which uses outside metrics to determine which items in an RSS feed are the "best." For the purpose of this post, however, we'll focus on services that let you filter by keyword. Feed Rinse is a best of class RSS filtering application. It offers filtering by keyword, tag, author, title, etc. It supports regular expressions, has a built in profanity filter, and lets you upload your OPML file for easy importing of your RSS feeds (it can also export to OPML). And since we first covered it in April of 2006 it has gone completely free. FilterMyRSS is a no-nonsense keyword fil