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Is Twitter Ready For Some Football?
Feb 3rd
Sunday’s Super Bowl is full of betting possibilities, but one line we couldn’t find in Vegas is whether or not Twitter will crash because of heavy traffic during the game.
This year’s NFL playoffs have already set one record for the most tweeted sports moment in history, when a Tim Tebow pass stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers on the first play of overtime against the Denver Broncos. The 9,420 tweets per second were not enough to cripple Twitter, but on New Year’s Eve in Japan 16,197 per second brought the service down. There is speculation that this year’s Super Bowl will set new records for both Facebook and Twitter.
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We’ve asked Twitter if they’ve made an contingencies for Sunday’s game and will update as soon as we hear back from them. Such an incident doesn’t just affect users, but also loads of sports apps that let users track chatter about the game using Twitter’s API.
Most recent Twitter crashes have occurred as a result of a clearly-defined moment: midnight on New Year’s in a part of the world where Twitter is more popular than Facebook was a good candidate. For Twitter to crash on Sunday, we suspect there would have to be a key, game-shattering play like the Tebow pass. With even more people tuning into the game it would most certainly shatter that record, although it’s unclear whether it would be enough to bring the site down.
Super Bowl commercials aren’t likely to produce a Twitter-crashing moment, either, as most of the commercials have already been leaked online. So many surprises have already been given away already that today marked the first time since 1988 that USA Today did not publish a list of Super Bowl advertisers on the Friday before the game.
Predictions
- A close game will produce a moment that makes it into the Top 10 list of most tweeted events: most likely it’s a game-ending play or a referee’s announcement after video review of a disputed call.
- That moment makes the Top 10 but does not cause Twitter to crash.
- That moment doesn’t come close to breaking the all-time tweets-per-second record of 25,088 set in December when a popular anime film was shown on Japanese television.
- And not that it has anything to do with tech or Twitter, or anything other than geographic bias, but the Patriots win a fourth Super Bowl with a 31-21 win.
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Hate the Facebook News Ticker? Some Can Now Hide It
Jan 31st
Users made a big stink about the Facebook news ticker, that annoying, constantly updating feed in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. Facebook responded. Now some users have the option to hide the ticker. This is good news for people who prefer to use the news feed and would like to avoid noisier information about which links their friends “like,” what friends are listening to on Spotify and who is now friends with whom. Teenagers spoke up about the news ticker, calling it the “stalker feed” and insisting that it provided too much information.
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The news ticker debuted before Facebook launched Timeline. Perhaps that was part of the user pushback on it – and because many of the same stories appeared in both the news feed and the news ticker.
Seeing interesting music selections from friends pop up on the news tick make it easier to discover new music. That is a very different experience than seeing annoying updates about which links friends have “liked” or commented on. Publishing activity from open graph apps – such as “watch,” “run,” shop,” “cook” – to the news ticker makes a lot more sense than seeing the mundane moves of your friends. In the meantime, if you’re one of the lucky users, you can now hide your ticker.
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Matt Cutts Convinces Some South Korean Govt. Websites To Stop Blocking Googlebot
Jan 31st
Matt Cutts, international diplomat? That might be the more appropriate title for Google’s chief spam cop. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cutts is in South Korea this week and, in a presentation Monday night for about 80 government officials, webmasters, lawyers and journalists, managed…
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[Infographic] Google Apps Has Some Big Paying Clients
Jan 31st
SaaS backup provider Backupify has recently examined its own customer sample to do some demographic profiling of Google Apps users. The results are somewhat intriguing, as you can see in the infographic below. If you remove .edu domains, Google Apps still has nearly 40% of all of its seats used by businesses with more than 10,000 employees. The company surveyed their customers who have at least 30 users.
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How did Backupify obtain this information on the size of each domain that is part of the Google Docs ecosystem? “When someone signs up for a trial, one of the pieces of information Google sends us over [in] the API is the total number of seats on the domain.” This makes for some fascinating information:
Backupify recommends that “Whether you sell a per-domain product in the Google Apps marketplace, or a per-seat product, you should customize that product for both: Very few solutions work for mom-and-pop businesses and also work for large universities and software consultancies. However, Google Apps is relatively young and Google has increased staffing in their partnership department this past year, signaling that they take their partners seriously and want to build a strong ecosystem that includes add-on developers.”
More information and their original blog post on this analysis can be found here.
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Netflix Gains Most Of Its Subscribers Back, Still Hurting In Some Areas – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 26th
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Netflix Gains Most Of Its Subscribers Back, Still Hurting In Some Areas
ReelSEO Online Video News This week's look at the Reel Web covers tips for YouTube SEO and several news stories from the… We've seen a lot of research pointing to how effectively video helps increase conversion, sales and… One of the top viewed pages on ReelSEO is that of a … |
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Some In China Get Around Government’s Twitter Censorship
Jan 24th
Social media use grew 300% in China last year and more than half of the country’s 500 million users are on a social network, according to a government report released last week.
And that’s why Chinese New Year became the most micro-blogged event in history, with 481,207 messages posted in the first minute of the year on a Chinese, Twitter-like service, as well as 32,312 messages posted in a single second: well above Twitter’s record of 25,088 tweets in a second. Still, many Chinese — both in China and abroad — are finding ways to use Twitter to talk free of government censorship.
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Because of government blocks on U.S.-based social networks like Twitter and Facebook, most of the messages are posted on Twitter-like copycats known as weibos. But an increasing number of Chinese dissidents are turning to Twitter, where they can discuss their homeland free of government censorship and without having to register their social media accounts under their real names, as now required under Chinese law.
While English-language users may lament the 140-character limit Twitter places on messages, users who tweet in character-based languages like Chinese are capable of recording whole paragraphs, according to Yaxue Cao, a writer who has been blogging about her experience on Twitter.
As reported by the New York Times, mainland Chinese users need to have enough technical know-how to circumvent the Great Firewall of China to use Twitter. That means conversations are more intimate — while also being more frank — than those on the government-monitored weibos. On Twitter, mainland Chinese Twitter users can interact with dissidents, including former student organizers who were exiled following the 1989 Tienanmen Square uprising.
“When one of them (@wurenhua) tweeted about his recent conversation with his 80-year-old mother over the phone and why the mother and son had avoided video chatting (so that they can hide sadness from each other), you get a glimpse of what this exile entails,” Yaxue write on her blog.
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Study: Some Industries Would’ve Made $112 Million More with Better SEO – ADOTAS
Jan 23rd
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Study: Some Industries Would've Made $112 Million More with Better SEO
ADOTAS On average, the survey found, lackluster SEO practices meant there was $51 million out there that retail and financial services companies each could've earned. Hardware and software businesses (who arguably should know better, but at least seem to get … BrightEdge: Retail, Financial Services and Tech Product Categories are Leaving … |
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Google’s “Find Hotels By Travel Time” Offers Some Of That “Innovation” Google Was Talking About
Jan 22nd
Before Google was formally approved to buy travel software company ITA, the company argued that the acquisition would result in “innovation” for travelers and travel search users. Beyond the appearance of flight times/routes in search results we haven’t yet much…
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You Can Now Watch Some Rough & Tough Bull Riding Live On YouTube – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 2nd
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You Can Now Watch Some Rough & Tough Bull Riding Live On YouTube
ReelSEO Online Video News The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO,… Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West… We had the privilege of speaking with Bruce Clay … |
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Facebook Timeline Poll Results and Some Helpful Links
Dec 29th
Last week we asked if you have the Facebook Timeline enabled and how you felt about it. These poll results are really interesting. Have it and like it – 101 Don’t have it and want it – 34 Have it and hate it – 41 Don’t have it and don’t want it – 97 The [...]
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