Marketing Pilgrim

It’s been almost two years since I warned of a potential scenario that involved the US government taking over Twitter.

I portrayed one scenario where things would escalate enough that the POTUS would have to take action….take over Twitter. Well, it appears the UK government is pondering something similar, in light of the riots in England.

According to TNW, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement:

“Mr Speaker, everyone watching these horrific actions will be stuck by how they were organised via social media.  Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.”

I have to admit, this one surprised me a little. We seem give (me included for sure until now) LinkedIn a free pass on exactly what they are doing with the data they have. The social media world has both barrels pointed at Facebook, Twitter and Google at all times but LinkedIn plays it cool off in its own world and flies under the radar while having some serious success.

Well, not this time. According to The Naked Security blog, a blogger, Steve Woodruff brings to the forefront a change in LinkedIn’s privacy policy from about two months ago which states:

Last year, Andy Beal did a post giving our readers a glimpse at the top Internet and social media marketing infographics he found.

So my question is: Why mess with success? Here is an updated list for 2011 with many great infographics from around the web including an updated version of our Infographics Channel sponsor, Voltier Creative’s “DIY Infographics Production.”

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A year ago, most people would have no idea what you were talking about if you asked who retweeted them. My, my how times have changed. Today, retweeting is the equivalent of coins dropping out of a slot machine. Bing, bang, ching — each one represents a boost for your business and depending on who retweeted, your reach can grow to 100 times more than your original message.

Because the care and feeding of RTers is so important, Hubspot is beta testing a simple tool that delivers all the stats you need in one place. It’s called WhoReTweetedMe.com and all you have to do is submit the URL of the webpage or blog post that you Tweeted and the tool does the rest.

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Haven, Maine may look like a typical, small New England town but strange things happen here — on a regular basis. People turn to stone. Shadows run off on their own and a giant, killer ball rolling down the street is perfectly normal. In Haven, they call it The Troubles. In TV circles, they call it a hit.

This Friday, the folks behind the Syfy series will launch an unprecedented social media effort, a storyline that flows back and forth between the series and Twitter.

Executive Producer Lloyd Segan says,

“Although Twitter has been featured in TV shows before, this is the first time a storyline from a television series has been fully integrated with the popular online service. The story has been created in such a way that viewers who don’t follow the Twitter plot can still enjoy the show. For those that do, there will be a special meaning to events in Haven during these seven episodes.”

Well, it’s that time of the month again. No, not that one but rather the one where we do the “Is Google Being knocked Off the Top of the Mountain Yet?” song and dance.

The chart below from comScore relates to explicit search statistics through July of this year. While Yahoo is showing a very slight gain, Bing is the same and even AOL picked up a percentage of a percentage point. Since AOL search is still Google search I am calling this one a draw (although some reports try to spin that this is a win for Microsoft’s search efforts).