Wolfram Alpha the Knowledge Engine has introduced a new tool that analyses your Facebook data and gives a detailed report ranging from the relationship statutes of your friends to top commentators and even the eldest and youngest one of your friends.
If you build a Facebook Page, will fans come? This is the great hope for many businesses. However, fans do not magically appear from the Facebook mist. People must be lured to your page. And there are some good and bad ways to go about doing this. In this article, we’ll share 10 ways to drive more fans to your Facebook page.
For those who are complaining that Facebook is not giving much support and attention to the iOS app, well it all ends today. Facebook for iOS has just been updated and version 5 is now ready for download from the iTunes App Store. And mind you, it’s a pretty huge update specifically focusing on making the app load and run faster on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Additionally, the app is also now easier to use. Specific changes include faster scrolling of your news feed and the presence of a banner on top which if tapped refreshes the display to bring out more stories.
This guide will help you to create your own facebook timeline cover for your profile. Facebook Covers is the only way you can leverage your identity, creativity and source apart from the facebook profile picture. Whenever someone visits your facebook profile, they will your timeline cover first.
According to Facebook’s Newsroom, Facebook now has 901 million accounts (as of march 2012), with more than 500 million who are active on a daily basis. That’s an impressive figure considering that Facebook was only founded in 2004.
Facebook is basically just a huge popularity contest. And for companies currently using Facebook, it all comes down to how many people “like” you.
As more and more companies adopt social media strategies, we thought this was the perfect time to see who’s winning and who’s losing on Facebook.
This list focuses specifically on companies that market products to consumers, and is pulled from data generated by Likester, which operates a marketing platform called Likester AdCenter. (We excluded entertainment brands, celebrities and companies like YouTube, which obviously get the most likes of anyone.)
College Humor has created a brilliant mockup of every Facebook timeline ever. Click through for the full thing…
Facebook is certainly stretching its legs into the business world. Rumors of Facebook launching its own job boards later this summer, possibly in response to other professional groups’ postings, could have a huge impact on recruitment for companies. How could this vast social network of nearly one billion help or hinder searches?
Facebook’s launch might be a strategic response to the growing popularity of LinkedIn, which is prevalent among the very specific crowd of business professionals. Facebook does a great job connecting and engaging with young people and will want to find ways to expand that notion. Facebook’s rumored job boards could very well make a significant impact on how recruiters, small business owners, and employees worldwide find good fits. With its expansive network, Facebook could be primed to make a large impact on hiring and job-hunting if it manages to employ this new idea correctly.
Trying to qualify the value of a Facebook Like for a given brand has been shown to be an incredibly elusive and often frustrating exercise. An exercise many brand managers and marketing managers would say ends more often than not, in futility.
Sure, having that large number of Facebook Likes is always great for the ego while standing around the water cooler with the brand managers and marketers – but what is the inherent value?
What good are all these Likes if it doesn’t correlate to increased revenue?
Two recent studies have shed some light on what the value of a Facebook Like truly is:
“The Facebook Factor” via Forrester and the “Power of a Like 2” the sequel to comScore’s “Power of a Like” released last year.
Facebook, the social networking giant, released the latest breakdown of what they consider to be fake users at thefirst quarterly earnings report as a public company. This is the numbers breakdown:
4.8% duplicate accounts
2.4% user-misclassified
1.5% undesirable accounts
Total: 8.7% or about 83 million fake users
