Social Networking Update

In the social media world, Facebook continues it's impressive climb towards 150M unique visitors. istrategylabs breaks down Facebook's 2009-2010 demographics here.

Social Networking Sites and Their Trends

YouTube.com is having an impressive increase in unique visitors, especially towards the end of a 12-month period.

Twitter increased hugely in the first few months of 2009, contributing to a 294% annual increase in unique visitors.

Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life

Image via Wikipedia

Dumb Little Man has tips for life. It's helpful to all, and I recommend it to both parents and kids.

It shows good ways to do things in short easy-to-learn steps.

I recommended the DLM blog on my Grandkids Blog also.

Social Stream Widget by Blog Catalog

Image via CrunchBase

Blog Catalog has a new Social Stream Widget. I'm using it in the sidebar of this blog under, "My News Feed." It tracks my activity on 27 different social networking sites. Very Powerful.

Facebook and MySpace Statistics

iAccording to Compete statistics, Facebook.com and MySpace.com each had 59 million hits in December 2008.

20+ Twitter Tools

Image via CrunchBaseMore than 20 Twitter Tools are listed below in alphabetical order. With the expected high growth of Twitter, shown by this data visualization, many of the following Twitter tools should prove to be very valuable.


Flapptor
A simple Twitter search engine. You can get an RSS feed out of your search query as well.

Monitter
Monitor Twitter with 3 search phrases at once. Very powerful.

Mr. Tweet
A personal network assistant for you.

Mutwee
Share media via Twitter.

Summize
A search engine acquired by Twitter.

TweetBeep
Enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter.

TweetBurner
Tracking the links you share on Twitter.

Tweetdeck
Application for download. Enables users to split all of their tweets into subject columns.

TweetFeed
A way to keep track of what is happening on Twitter that interests you.

TweetLater
TweetLater lets you create tweets scheduled for the future.

TweetScan
This is a search engine for Twitter indexing all the public messages on Twitter. Get daily or weekly email alerts.

TweetVolume
Enter a few words or phrases and see how often they appear on Twitter.

TweetyBot
Keeps you up-to-date with the latest Tweets from you followers and those you're following.

Twellow
A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.

Twitdom
The Twitter Applications Database.

TwiTip
Twitter tips in 140 characters or more.

TwitPic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

Twitree (beta)
A Twitter application that visualizes your friends in a recursive tree.

Twitscoop
Monitor Twitter activity and find what’s hot on Twitter?

Twits Like Me
People Search - This tool helps you find people on Twitter who share your interests.

TwitterCounter
Tracks the number of Twitter followers by week, month or 3 months.

TwitterFox
Firefox extension for Twitter. Shows latest tweets and offers a quick way to enter tweets.

TwitterFriends
See your relevant network and some stats about you tweeting behavior compared to other Twitter users.

Twitter Google Custom Search
Search Twitter using a custom Google search engine setting.

Twitter Grader
What is your Twitter Grade?

Twitterholic
Ranks Twitterers based on their followers, the people they follow and the number of their updates.

TwitterMap
Provides users with the ability to update their locations on a Google Map and send a tweet with it.

Twitterment
A search engine for Twitter powered by Google search.

Twitter Search
Twitter's search for realtime results in any language.

TwitterTroll
A real-time Twitter search engine for finding new Twitter friends.

TwitterWho
Using this, you can search for multiple queries on Twitter at one go.

TwitterVision
A real-time geographic visualization of posts to Twitter.

Twubble
People Search - This also helps find people who share your interests on Twitter. It brings out profiles who your current friends are already following.

Twitter Growth

ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse has the post: 12 Ways to Be a More Interactive and Accessible Blogger

One of the 12 ways to be more interactive is with Twitter.

Using Compete.com, I looked at Twitter's analytics. They have a 42% increase over last month and over 1,000% increase for the year. That's pretty significant.